Evolution threatens Christianity
Evolution poses a further threat to Christianity, though, a threat that goes to the very heart of Christian teaching. Evolution means that the creation accounts in the first two chapters of Genesis are wrong. That's not how humans came into being, nor the cattle, nor the creeping things, nor the beasts of the earth, nor the fowl of the air. Evolution could not have produced a single mother and father of all future humans, so there was no Adam and no Eve. No Adam and Eve: no fall. No fall: no need for redemption. No need for redemption: no need for a redeemer. No need for a redeemer: no need for the crucifixion or the resurrection, and no need to believe in that redeemer in order to gain eternal life. And not the slightest reason to believe in eternal life in the first place.
Of course, "sophisticated theology" (which is only theology you haven't heard of yet, as per Pharyngulawiki) will tell you that, no, it's JUST a metaphor. For example, a metaphor of how we learned to overcome our animal natures and use willpower to organize ourselves. Like chimps, and bonobos, and orangs, and gorillas, and...fuck :/
ReplyDeleteWell, no, it's a metaphor about how we have an "inner light" and need to get in contact with it, and if we don't we'll burn in a very literal Hell for all eternity--wait, shit, THAT doesn't work either.
Actually, this is a bit of a corker :)