How Literal is Genesis

If this is your definition of a Christian, then it seems you have left out the connection between Christianity and the Bible, which makes me wonder why it is that you are only permitting Christian respondents. In that spirit, I think I'll just chime in quick. Essentially, yes. Indeed. As well you shouldn't be... it's down-right silly.

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Gen 5:20 -- And all the days of Ja'-red were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

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Reduce that by a factor of ten and we get 96.2. A rather odd way to measure a lifespan. Besides, I do not believe that people in that area in those times wrote numbers using positional notation and 'tens.' Well, you really shouldn't anyway, since evolution is completely a scientific theory, and shouldn't be polluted with philosophical ... Simply because you are mentally and emotional incapable of wrapping your head around the fact that there never was an Adam, does not mean there ever really was one.Jon

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In considering the Origin of Species, it is quite conceivable that a naturalist... might come to the conclusion that each species had not been independently created, but had descended, like varieties, from other species. - Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _En el mundo hay multitud de idiomas, y cada uno tiene su propio significado. - I Corintios 14:10
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _A devout people with its back to the wall can be pushed deeper and deeper into hardening religious nativism, in the end even preferring national suicide to religious compromise. - Colin Wells Sailing from Byzantium