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Originally Posted by Casper in Dallas
Actually they do not, it is just explained differently. Big bang - Let there be lightis one example. The formation of the Black Sea and the Flood is another. Adam and Eve and the genetic studies that bring it back to one woman and possibly one or two men. There stories were there to explain something beyond the understanding of men at the time but when one truely looks at them you see many similarities.
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This is really quashing a robust body of very intensive and advanced bodies of science and rigorous empiricism carried out over decades (some for centuries) to make a comparison with just a few vague lines in a 2000 year old book.
These are just a few highlights:
After the Big Bang there was no light for some 350,000 - 400,000 years because it was too hot for light to shine. That's the longest time delay on a light switch... probably ever.
The formation of the Black Sea and the Flood is still a localized event. Though it may have been caused by certain global forces such as glacial melt, there is a lot of debate as to the intensity and/or magnitude by which the Black Sea flooded. Furthermore, there's still the problem of it being a "global flood" in which all land masses were covered up and there's no indication that rain for 40 days and nights caused it. More likely, as one would expect, this was a myth handed down verbally for many centuries in which the "entire world" was thought to be that of the immediate area in and around the Black Sea. For the real Biblical literalist, it still brings forth the problem of how all the Koala Bears made it to the Middle East and were then returned to Australia after the flood.
The Y-Chromosome Adam and the Mitochondrial Eve are not a couple and most likely lived thousands if not tens of thousands of years apart from one another. Even if we were to somehow sloppily ignore ALL of the rigor behind this to fit it into a silly "See the Bible mentions Adam and Eve!" then there's still the problem of talking snakes, gardens of Eden, and so on and so forth.
My basic point here is that there is a HUGE difference between the actual science and the Bible. Merely stating that they're "just explained differently" is like taking all of the rigor and science behind a modern jumbo jet aircraft, all of its engineering, schematics, diagrams, layouts, aerodynamics, etc... and pointing at it and saying "Metal Flying Bird." Sure you could explain it that way but only so the dumbest, profoundly least common denominator has some sort of tangible connection to it - and even then it's only a metaphor, a collateral effect of human language, which does no actual describing of it at all.