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Interesting thought, huh?  It kind of makes you think of a woman, the first woman in the world, capable of conceiving a baby without the need for a man… a new trait for humanity, which Natural Selection would select either for against as a desiralbe trait for mankind.  Except Jesus never had kids by which to pass it on… and we’re unaware of Mary’s other children or desendents repeating a virgin birth.  Well, that isn’t what I was tallking about anyway.

What I noticed about Jesus’ conception is the balance between humanity and divinity.  On the one hand, Jesus has a physical ancestry going all the back to Adam and beyond.  On the other hand, God took one of Mary’s eggs …

I recently got to look at a common science text for home schooling Christian parents.  Homeschooling is a wonderful thing when done correctly, and the families I know are raising exceptional children.  In fact, the best science program I have found so far is this hands on science teacher who sells kits online, teaches over the Internet to provide real experiments and real understanding of the universe in which we live.  So, I was interested when of the parents let me see the science book that they were using.  It turns out that this was from a different curriculum than the one I expected.

I opened the book at random, and simply read two examples of proofs against evolution.  The first proof was …

One of my early premises of Geocreationism is that Jesus Himself was present for Creation.  Even the very first verse of the Bible says so.
Genesis 1:1 - “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
As I discussed in my post on Genesis 1:1a, the word for God is Elohim, a plural form of the one God.  It represents both God’s unequaled majesty, as well the Trinity, using a word that is both plural and singular at the same time.  John confirms this in his gospel in John 1:1-3, and Solomon describes why Jesus was there in Proverbs 8:22-26.  In fact, Solomon even goes on to give Jesus a voice in Proverbs 8:27-30a.  Here, …

…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 5)
 20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
I happened upon an interesting commentary on this vers at Accuracy In Genesis.  How Big is All?  Here is the beginning of that article:
For a first example look at Genesis 3:20 where per the King James Version Adam pronounces Eve as

“the mother of all living”How big is this all ? Is it totally inclusive of all living matter, plants, bacteria, aquatic life, bugs, fowl, and all the mammals and all primates?

Was she “mother nature” ?Or …

…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 4)

After disciplining the serpent, then Eve, God now turns to Adam, whom God had interrogated first on the matter…
 17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’
       “Cursed is the ground because of you;
       through painful toil you will eat of it
       all the days of your life.
Now this is harsh.  God had given him a garden, in which he had all the food he ever needed.  Of course, it did require tending, enough so that …

Like 1 Corinthians 15:21, Romans 5:12 is another verse used to support the doctrine of Original Sin.  However, does this verse mean that there was no death before Adam?  That is important to answer, because if there was no death before Adam, then Evolution would be false, and the Earth would by necessity be young… and science would be turned on its ear.

The first verse on Original Sin that I addressed is 1 Corinthians 15:21, which reads:
21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
However, the context of this verse was a reference back to Daniel 12:2:
2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: …

1 Corinthians 15:21 is one of the verses used to prove that because of Original Sin, the earth is young.  Here is the verse:
21For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.
The reasoning is as follows:

Given: Jesus died for our sins
Given: Adam introduced sin
Given: God said that when Adam sinned, he would die
Therefore: Death resulted from Adam’s sin
Therefore: There was no death until Adam sinned.
Therefore: Evolution could not have occurred. 
Therefore: The Earth is young.

And 1 Corinthians 15:21 is offered as confirmation of this simple proof.  However, does this verse really confirm this proof?  Or might it actually disprove it?  1 Corinthians 15 is a long chapter that Paul wrote in order to cut through some misconceptions …

In Genesis 2 - A recall of Genesis 1?, I introduce my interpretation of Genesis 2 as mostly a continuation of Genesis 1, not a mere rehash.  Obviously, I am not the first one to ever suggest Genesis 2 occurred after Day 7, but I have not read elsewhere of the possibility that Adam’s creation in Genesis 2 provides the context for Evolution in Genesis 1, and then picks up from there.  My rationale is based on how well the combination of Genesis 1 and 2 map to the scientific record.

Genesis 2:4-6 describe the earth 4.5 billion years ago.
At that time, there was only earth to work with.
Genesis 2:7 says God used earth to form Adam… God’s work …

While I really like how I ended Reconciling Evolution with Scripture (Part 3), I realize that there are issues I have left dangling in the wind.  For example, exactly what is I believe?  And what do I call it?

I ask these sort of humorously, because I have done enough debating to see the opportunity I left for parsing my words for details that might “get” me on a technicality.

First of all, let me clarify that when I say I believe evolution, my own thinking has evolved somewhat in my own meaning.  I apologize for the confusion if you have been reading posts from the past few years of mine …

In Reconciling Evolution with Scripture and Reconciling Evolution with Scripture (Part 2), I have attempted to establish that no matter what mechanism resulted in the seeming “evolution of species” apparently recorded in the fossil record, the result was God’s will.  In Reconciling Evolution with Scripture I wrote the following:
I then realized that after homo sapiens were created, it seems that evolution kind of stopped… I mean, it’s possible more species still formed, but but not humanoid!  And so it meant that God started creating man at Day 1, and stopped after Day 6.  …