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Beginnings

King Phenomenon

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For people who believe in God do they also believe in the Big Bang and evolution? if not when do they think the world began?
 
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Windwalker

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they guess Adam and eve could've been made 50 to 200,000 years ago. But why did God have to make 2 people when there Were Homo sapiens in droves on the earth already evolving? Something seems weird
Yes. There is something weird. I don't think the bible is meant to be read that way. Adam and Eve are symbolic figures that represent humankind. They are not a separate species, but representative of homo sapiens, biologically, but more importantly existentially, or dealing with what it means to be a self-aware human being.

Don't read the bible as a book of science. It'll just confuse you. :)
 

Windwalker

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With a whole metaphorical lineage too I guess. Then I guess the whole Bible is metaphorical
Yes, the Bible is metaphorical, along with human imaginations of what the world was like before having a scientific advantage. You'll find it's not all that accurate when it comes to technical details about the earth, or human history and evolution. They simply did not have that advantage we do today. Some parts are historical, other parts are myths and legends.
 

King Phenomenon

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Yes. There is something weird. I don't think the bible is meant to be read that way. Adam and Eve are symbolic figures that represent humankind. They are not a separate species, but representative of homo sapiens, biologically, but more importantly existentially, or dealing with what it means to be a self-aware human being.

Don't read the bible as a book of science. It'll just confuse you. :)
from your perspective it is a science book. So what does Jesus supposed to symbolize?
 

King Phenomenon

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Yes, the Bible is metaphorical, along with human imaginations of what the world was like before having a scientific advantage. You'll find it's not all that accurate when it comes to technical details about the earth, or human history and evolution. They simply did not have that advantage we do today. Some parts are historical, other parts are myths and legends.
Why do so many people believe that Jesus actually existed but not Adam and Eve?
 

Windwalker

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Why do so many people believe that Jesus actually existed but not Adam and Eve?
There are historical markers that a real man named Jesus existed. There are no such evidences for a historical Adam and Eve. They are mythological in nature, meant to stand in symbolically for humankind in a storyline.
 

King Phenomenon

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What do you mean? No, from my perspective bible is not scientific. Not at all. I do not believe that, and encourage others to not confuse themselves, thinking it is.


A lot. :) Too much for a short response.
Well you told me that Adam and eve symbolize the first Homo sapiens which is scientific aint it?
 

QuestioningMind

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they guess Adam and eve could've been made 50 to 200,000 years ago. But why did God have to make 2 people when there Were Homo sapiens in droves on the earth already evolving? Something seems weird

I've also heard it argued that Adam and Eve in the bible don't represent the first human beings, but rather the first Hebrews. And that the origin stories of other religions represent he fist Egyptians or the first Babylonians and that none of them were originally interpreted to mean the origins of the entire human race.
 
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