Evolutionary Christrianity

I come from a long line of Presbyterian ministers. My father is an elder in his church, and yet was also an archaeologist for many years.

None of them, however, were/are evangelical literallists. They were intelligent enough to recognize the metaphorical aspects of the Bible.

And none, to my knowledge, including myself, have any problem with the compatibility of evolution and Christian belief.
 
I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But I think it's notable that GT apparently now believes that Christianity is rational.
 
Studying evolution is like following cosmic breadcrumbs home to God.

I pretty much agree with that. God here means a supreme being, not necessarily the same dude that gets so much press in the Christian bible.

Only by looking through evolutionary eyes can we see our way out of the current global integrity crisis that is destroying economies and ecosystems around the world.

This, however, is the kind of crap that will doom this project, imo. What does it even mean? Only by looking with "evolutionary eyes" can we do (fill in the blank)? ********.

The problem today, imo, is the fundamentalist/literalist. And in more ways than science.
 
a couple of things.

I don't know a theologian worth his/her salt who tries to use the Bible as a science textbook. To do so is an utter bastardisation of what the Bible is supposed to do and be.
Most who try to do that are looking at two Hebrew poems talking about God being behind the creation of all that exists and then posit scientific theories from that. More than bad science (I would argue that isn't science at all), it is bad theology.

Secondly, when you talk a 'leap of faith' what if it were a step of faith? I would submit that believing into Jesus is a step of faith, most certainly, but one, I believe that can be done because there is rational reasons to do so. The entire idea of a 'leap of faith' was, if memory serves, coined by Kierkegaard. It is not something that I is necessary for belief. There is no need to suspend rationality, but rather to use it and then step beyond it into the realm of belief. Many claims of Christianity require rationality in order to believe them. This is why I say to be a Christian you must be rational. In order to believe propositional truths don't you have to be rational?
 
Science:

1. a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.

2. systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.

It seems like definition 2 is what fits for our purposes here.
 
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