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Old 05-04-2008, 04:18 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tigermom View Post
And btw, I know a lot of very religious Jewish people who have no problem with the theory of evolution. They just don't take the bible very literally, and instead focus on what they see as its spiritual meaning. It's a spiritual guide for them, not a history book. Some of our leading scientists in Israel, biologists, doctors and physicists are religious, as a matter of fact.
Amen. Far to many Christians take the Old Testament as literal fact when it comes to Genesis. I'm sure a lot has been lost in translation and understanding of original meaning. What is written is more on a mythological level than fact and many of these myths are found in the older Sumerian beliefs about creation, which were incorporated into the Bible.
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