Radical Christians have targeted games for being evil in the past. First, it was Dungeons and Dragons, and then it was Pokemon. Now, it's Spore. (Readers: Correct me if I forgot a game or toy that was attacked by a radical Christian group, for no other comes to mind now.)
When God created us, he could have very well done it over centuries of fine-tuning. Personally, I appreciate God's creation more if I think that God took all the time to create the animals that currently reside on our planet. By the way, if you ever consider using the Bible to back itself up, you should know that it is not the way to go in trying to convince people of one's beliefs.
This blog is new, but it is already showing how ridiculous it is. The blog takes screen shots of player-made creatures out of context and tries to make it seem as if full-frontal nudity exists in the game itself--as if that's going to prove that the theory of evolution is a lie out of Hell.
Also, as a professor of mine said to me, intelligent design is a first cause theory, whereas evolution only deals with how species develop.
Here is something I posted on the HookedOnSpore user blog not too long ago:
Speaking for myself, I really don't know the mechanics behind the creation itself, but thinking of the complexity of it all and the time God put into creating the universe makes me appreciate it more.As a Christian, I often run into other Christians who are totally against the theory of evolution. You know the type.
Also, it could be that the creator finally put a soul into a the body once it was capable of higher intelligence.
Honestly, I do not see the problem with a Christian, Jew, Muslim, or any person of any other religion being open to the idea of evolution. I will give my own reasons for being open to evolution from the standpoint of a Christian, Jew, or Muslim, since the three religions include the Old Testament in their holy writings, and I am simply more familiar with the Old Testament.
For instance, the Book of Genesis states that the “world” was created in seven “days.” Remember that the people for whom these stories were told were most likely passed down orally. By the time the story reached parchment or papyrus, the story was probably changed. Also remember that the stories were probably written soon after the tribes of Israel settled down from being nomadic.
Not that they were stupid. People at this time did not have the language to accurately describe epochs of development that the universe took to form. Also, remember that if you believe in a higher being that created the space-time continuum, he probably exists outside of time and space to be able to form the universe, so the time span of “days” could mean months, years, centuries, millenniums…even epochs.
Whether or not you abscribe to a religion or are open to evolution is up to you, but I just want to show my justifications and thoughts on being spiritual and being open to scientific theories.
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Exactly. Evolution just explains the development of species, not the origins of the Universe.
I have told people (Christians that were a bit pushy) that most stories were oral. I told them stories changed over time and if they were not written, had a greater chance of changing. I understand that making a copy back in the day could have some slight changes, but for the most part, those were minor changes.
As the aeons passed, those stories changed more.
Like, [some person] killed a lion that was eating our children.
Aeons later: [same person] came from the sky, had many wives and children, and banished the evil that has been plaguing our village with his magic staff. [insert many details here]
One of them asked, "So if I send an e-mail to someone in India, it will change when it gets there."
O.o Um. Obviously no. Apparently, they think aeons take seconds (literally in *our* dimension).
My Biology II instructor said something about how Creationists should consider Evolution as a background mechanism to diversify life.
Makes sense. If I were a diety, I would not want to spend my time creating every organism. I have prayers from 7 trillion people to answer and other planets with other organisms that are praying, too!
And my take on the Bible: It's just a story book. One should not take it literally (this book is infallible when there are contradictions in it and can be interpreted in many different ways so one interpretation may not be correct), but it does have some good stories (good = morals).
I have always viewed the Bible as a story book (like Aesop's Fables) when I was Catholic.
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