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Originally posted by TheKhanzumer
To be a Christian you must completely believe in Jesus Christ and everything he said. Creation by one true God (as told in the Bible) was not done through evolution. Therefore, anybody who says they are Christian and believe evolution are hypocrites.
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First of all, Khanzumer, at the risk of offending, I think you're missing the full S C O P E of the evolutionary argument. No matter what your definition of what it is to be a "true Christian", you must agree that there is some level of interpretation to the bible no matter how literally it is taken. Otherwise there would be no priests or bible discussions- bilblical study is more than just blind faith and M O N K E Y work. The books of Genesis and Revelations, specifically, leave quite a bit of information unsaid or said in a mysterious manner, making the analyzation of them, after all these years of translation and interpretation especially, a real T R I A L. You say that the Christian literalist creation story cannot include evolution, but I would suggest you take a second L O O K with this in mind. Where exactly does I T state exactly how God created life, or that the six days of his labors were days by human definition? A lot of the specifics are left U P to the follower's interpretation, and, at this point where direct information ends, some mixing of data from both holy and scientific scources can be helpful in filling in the holes we N O W find ourselves facing.
But, of course, take this or L E A V E it, it's up to you. Simply my opinions, no need to get hot around the collar and P I N K faced about anything. None of us in this argument are A L O N E in our beliefs here.