Tuesday, August 9, 2011

FacePalm of the Day #117 - Debunking Christianity: Proof Evangelicals Will Do Whatever it Takes to Continue Believing: "Evangelicals Question The Existence Of Adam And Eve"

John Loftus posted the following link to an article

They are doing what each generation of Christian thinkers have done from the very beginning. The future of Christianity will not be the same as it is today. It's just that like all other evolving organisms and systems of thought, they evolve so slowing it's hard to detect it. Evangelicals would be appalled at the Christianity of a century or more ago, and they will be equally appalled at the Christianity a century or more from now. Evangelicals, give it up. Enjoy

I am amazed but not surprised at how the article reads as if that all scientists have come to the conclusion that there is no way Adam and Eve had been real living people. It's not true. I agree that the historicity of Adam and Eve is the crux of Christianity. I think this is why people want to prove it's not true. Without Adam enslaving humanity to sin, there is no need for Jesus to have come and die for us. The entire Bible is built on  this fact. I'm not saying that we should believe the Bible to make sure that Christianity is true. There is no reason to just accept that Genesis says that  people only go back 6000 years There are good reasons to think that earth and humanity is a great deal older than that v - Scientific and Biblical. Bottom Line: There is no reason to throw the Bible under the bus in order to be rational and scientific.  Truly a FacePalm.
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Debunking Christianity: Proof Evangelicals Will Do Whatever it Takes to Continue Believing: "Evangelicals Question The Existence Of Adam And Eve"
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5 comments:

  1. I am amazed but not surprised at how the article reads as if that all scientists have come to the conclusion that there is no way Adam and Eve had been real living people.

    Did you read the article??? It does no such thing. It does the exact opposite thing. Do not misrepresent NPR.

    But now some conservative scholars are saying publicly that they can no longer believe the Genesis account.



    "From my viewpoint, a historical Adam and Eve is absolutely central to the truth claims of the Christian faith," says Fazale Rana, vice president of Reasons To Believe, an evangelical think tank that questions evolution. Rana, who has a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Ohio University. []. Rana and others believe in a literal, historical Adam and Eve for many reasons."

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  2. I was referring to how they made it sound like all scientists who are not Christians think there were no Adam and Eve. For example:

    "Mohler and others say if other Protestants want to accommodate science, fine. But they shouldn't be surprised if their faith unravels."

    Don't misrepresent me. Oh and Fazale Rana who is a biologist is correct.

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  3. I was referring....

    Sure you were...

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  4. Delude yourself anyway you like. You know like that fallacy that you can become unborn-again.

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  5. Good thing I don't think you can be "unborn-again" (or born-again for that matter).

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