tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948329512211077551.post5467596779934749708..comments2024-03-06T19:52:42.794-07:00Comments on BIBLICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Overview of Human OriginsAlice C. Linsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948329512211077551.post-55656885178685110402012-08-27T17:01:27.545-06:002012-08-27T17:01:27.545-06:00"My question is could we not see the six-day ..."My question is could we not see the six-day Genesis account as describing the end result of the various branches of the Evolutionary tree..."<br /><br />You are reading a very ancient Afro-Asiatic sacred text from a modern Western perspective. <br /><br />The idea of evolution isn't found in Genesis. It is absolutely contrary to their metaphysics in which God created by setting all things in order, establishing binary sets, and fixing the boundaries. You might find this helpful: http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2009/04/genesis-and-genetics.html<br />Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1948329512211077551.post-82392919145409872822012-05-29T10:22:03.304-06:002012-05-29T10:22:03.304-06:00Alice, have you ever read "The Language of Go...Alice, have you ever read "The Language of God" by Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project?<br /><br />Collins, a Christian, believes that there is evidence of full-blown interspecies evolution mapped within human DNA. All the "missing links" are attested to there, according to him. (That is not to deny that some of the fossils claimed as missing links are frauds as you have documented). Just wondered about your take on this if you've had a chance to study the issue. . . .<br /><br />Being a simple Orthodox believer and neither a scientist or Bible scholar, I personally don't have an issue with this part of Evolutionary theory. I just don't think there is any evidence (in current postlapsarian biology, physics, etc.) that this could have happened apart from God's energizing and directing it. IOW, I'm not a believer in Naturalism, a required tenet of the Theory of Evolution proper. It doesn't seem to me that this denies that humankind as a species is special, created in God's image, whether that creation took place through a long process from less complex life forms or whether God literally created the first human from the dust of the earth (certainly it is still true that man's physical being is made of the same basic elements that make up the material world, found in the dust of the earth). God as the Author of that process has still obviously brought creation to the place of having distinct species groups. My question is could we not see the six-day Genesis account as describing the end result of the various branches of the Evolutionary tree without this necessitating we infer something different than what Dr. Collins sees evidence of human DNA as the process that produced those branches in order to still affirm Genesis?ofgracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15472912900056438243noreply@blogger.com