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God made man from the dust of the earth, ok God made man from the elements he had already created. That doesn't sound
like evolution nor does this,"And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man." Gen 2:21-22
Does that sound like it took God millions of years? I see no mention of any apes here either.
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God "formed" the man out of the earth itself.
We humans are a part of this earth that has come to life.
We share this fact with the animals....for the animals also are said to come forth from this earth in both evolution and in Genesis.
Now the criticism that the words in the text don't "sound" exactly like the way modern science teachers describe the science of evolution is silly...
Im not saying that the teachings of evolution are found in the Text,,,
However, what I am saying is what we read in Genesis works hand-in-hand with the teachings of evolution,
and that Im also pointing out that there are no words in the Text of Genesis that stand "against" the teachings of evolution.
So we have two works that talk about the same point of time in earth's history that are describing the same events but only in different ways, but yet in agreement with each other and without contradiction.
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now as for the idea " I see no mention of any apes here either." , here is the answer -
According to the teachings of evolution, what came before the rise of humans and apes?...
and what was before that?
and before that?
and before that, and that, and that?
Follow the chain of life according to the teachings of evolution and go back to the very beginning, the very "origin" of the first building blocks of pre-life?
Where do you end up?.....
The answer is in agreement with the Text of Genesis, for you end up with all life , (both human and the animals) coming forth out of this very Earth itself!
(To confirm this for yourself, just check the text at Genesis 2:19 and Genesis 3:19)
The starting point is the same in Genesis and evolution.
Thus in the end we get to the same point in total agreement.
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Hi Alan,
Where does the bible talk about a "chain of life", that's a man made concept. The scriptures say
that God created beasts and cattle and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind.
It doesn't even hint that any creature came from some other kind. Cattle were created as cattle
fish as fish and men as men. Sorry, no room for years of death and mutations for creatures and man to evolve.
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Just take a look at the teachings of Evolution and with them trace back all life to its source.
Where does all life come from according to evolution?...
The answer is the same answer we get at Genesis 2:19
So what does this mean for us?...it means that there is no contradiction at all between the strory found in Genesis and the teachings of evolution.
Both works are able to walk hand in hand with each other.