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What I find interesting is that scriptures written thousands of years ago and the old testament itself speak of things that were later proven by science. The problem with science is that people, through their human fallacy, believe they have answers. In reality science has proven very little about our world, and certainly less about our origin. Science cannot tell us what happened 14 billion years ago to bring it all into existence. The reason is that physics breaks down at the point of singularity. Singularity being the state of things before the creation of the universe or even within a black hole. Science is unable to find quantum gravity but believes it exists. Science can't prove emotions of love. Science can prove very little in the natural world. Those who require proof are living in the stone age. Proof, in some cases, escapes science because they haven't yet determined the mathematics and physics. In most cases proofs made in fact are only as good as the science that determined them. And when new science refutes those previously accepted facts... well, they're o longer factual. In science and mathematics there are degrees of facts. Facts are often mislabeled when they are actually a hypothesis; an opinion derived from experiment and the application of the logic of known physics.Evolution didn't exist in the christian's vocabulary until advances in science (biology, DNA and related fields) made it impossible for christians to merely brush aside evolution, so it was re-categorized as "goddunit" and the BS continued.
85% of the members of the National Academy of Scientists are non-believers. Within the NAS, the discipline that has the highest rate of non-belief, 96% are the biologists.
The challenge of debating with a theists, is that when loosing the hand, they merely throw down the "goddunit" card, thinking it is a trump card, and claim victory.
And even as a evolution believing (well kinda, you hedge your bets by injecting 'god magic'), but at least you acknowledge it exists. Sadly 42% of Americans are stuck with the ignorance of creationism. But look closer, that is 42% of Americans, while 78% of Americans identify as some variety of christianity. Assuming (safely) that the other 22%, atheist, agnostics, and non-christian don't buy into this it indicates that a majority (54%)of christians believe that god spit and blowing on a dirt clod and a rib are the origin of life.
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The Bible says God took a rib from Adam and made Eve. People who don't understand the symbolism, the limitations in science of those who wrote it and the interpretive nature of the Bible believe God actually took Adam's rib from his chest. Those are the people who understand zippo about religion and the Bible. Consider what science says about taking a rib from Adam to make Eve. It's a description of the first single-cell organism splitting into two organisms. Consider it description of the asexual nature of the single-celled animal. Now in ancient times no one knew there were single-celled organisms. They wrote in an uneducated and primitive manner. But science later proved the statement true.