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Christianity, Islam, and Judaism have similar creation stories, which ultimately go back to the first book of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis). According to Genesis, humans are the result of a special act of creation. Genesis 1 offers an account of the creation of the world in six days, with the creation of human beings on the sixth day. It specifies that humans were created male and female, and that they were made in God’s image. Genesis 2 provides a different order of creation, where God creates humans earlier in the sequence (before other animals), and only initially creates a man, later fashioning a woman out of the man’s rib. Islam has a creation narrative similar to Genesis 2, with Adam being fashioned out of clay. These handcrafted humans are regarded as the ancestors of all living humans today. Together with Ussher’s chronology, the received view in Western culture until the eighteenth century was that humans were created only about 6000 years ago, in an act of special creation. 3.2.1
but isn't the creation story a Jewish one originally and they don't take it lithely?
so god created the universe like I created my children and grandchildren. The universe is just evolving. the literalist are the one that screwed the story up.
"Humans occupy a privileged position in these creation accounts. In Christianity, Judaism, and some strands of Islam, humans are created in the image of God (imago Dei). There are at least three different ways in which image-bearing is understood (Cortez 2010). According to the functionalist account, humans are in the image of God by virtue of things they do, such as having dominion over nature. The structuralist account emphasizes characteristics that humans uniquely possess, such as reason. The relational interpretation sees the image as a special relationship between God and humanity." 3.2.2
"Scientific findings and theories relevant to human origins come from a range of disciplines, in particular geology, paleoanthropology (the study of ancestral hominins, using fossils and other evidence), archaeology, and evolutionary biology. These findings challenge traditional religious accounts of humanity, including the special creation of humanity, the imago Dei, the historical Adam and Eve, and original sin." 3.2.5
Yup, all they have to do is say god done it the way science shows.
one step closer to the truth.
I say, "Science shows how God done it, is doing it, and can make predictions of how it's gonna be done.".
That gets you everything: Science & its predictions...a God that is self-substantiating to exist...and, no hocus-pocus stuff or tithing!
Dr Rob Lutton, medieval history lecturer, said: "The course provides an exciting opportunity for anyone with an interest in the origins and development of England's most enduring legendary figure."
I'd be interested, and maybe the course will even shed light on some of the medieval ways we contemplated the origins and development of the universe around us. Like the study of science and religion seems to involve...
"In natural philosophy, the dethroning of humanity from its position as a specially created species predates Darwin and can already be found in early transmutationist publications. For example, Benoît de Maillet’s posthumously published Telliamed (1749, the title is his name in reverse) traces the origins of humans and other terrestrial animals from sea creatures. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed chimpanzees as the ancestors to humans in his Philosophie Zoologique (1809). The Scottish publisher and geologist Robert Chambers’ anonymously published Vestiges of Creation (1844) stirred controversy with its detailed naturalistic account of the origin of species. He proposed that the first organisms arose through spontaneous generation, and that all subsequent organisms evolved from them. He argued that humans have a single evolutionary origin: “The probability may now be assumed that the human race sprung from one stock, which was at first in a state of simplicity, if not barbarism” (p. 305), a view starkly different from the Augustinian interpretation of humanity in a prelapsarian state of perfection." 3.2.6
I say, "Science shows how God done it, is doing it, and can make predictions of how it's gonna be done.".
That gets you everything: Science & its predictions...a God that is self-substantiating to exist...and, no hocus-pocus stuff or tithing!
its ok to repeat bad religion, no god, belief is bad ... try and repeat belief in something like use science data to form a belief and see how it goes.
And no god forbid ... let us compare believing we are part of a larger more complex system to deny everything and see what happens ... on a science and engineering level that is.
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