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Answer:
Dr. Alexander Roman
alex@unicorne.org
One of the reasons that evolution was
rejected by Christianity was the sometimes strident atheism of those who
promoted this theory.
If everything evolved from lower species, then this "proved" that God
didn't "create" the world where "creation" was seen as the caricature of
God waving a magic wand and "presto" the world came into being as we know
it today.
In fact, to read the early chapters of Genesis is to see clear and direct
evidence concerning evolution, different types of people and the like.
There are certain types of animals mentioned in the Bible that are no
longer around e.g. unicorns.
Scientists actually laughed at the notion of dragons as mentioned in the
Bible.
But when people finally came face to face with giant lizard monitors and
the like, scientists stopped laughing.
One of our daily newspapers had a colour picture of a "dinosaur" caught by
accident by a ship at sea. It looked just like what many consider today to
be the "loch ness monster" or an amphibious dinosaur. It was dead for
about three weeks, they calculated and the flesh fell apart soon
afterwards. But they kept it long enough to make some photos of it.
There are also those who believe we still have dinosaurs from the dinosaur
age living among us.
In Papua New Guinea there is the "devil-bird" or what some say are
Pterodactyls, or large flying dinosaurs with teeth that swoop down and
attack and kill human beings there.
The focus of the teaching of the Bible is about God, not science. The
Bible makes use of a number of genres to get its teaching across as well.
The authors of the biblical books made use of their observations of nature
and the scientific interpretation of them that was available to them at
the time.
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