Message #46

[JJ]

Do you not think though, that the creationists have a point? I mean aren't whole swathes of the Bible in need of reinterpretation because of the fact of evolution.

Martin, evolution isn't able to, nor does it pretend to explain the purpose of life.  At the same time, there remains a gap in the scientists' knowledge and understanding of evolution (well, several, to be truthful) especially when it comes to the nature of humanity.  As such, some of what evolutionary scientists try to tell us seems to be at odds with known evolutionary fact.

I think finding a sense of human purpose, understanding meaning, Biblical interpretation and evolutionary science are different disciplines and cannot be mixed up in any interpretation of understanding of our human condition.  It seems to me a bit like using applied maths to interpret a novel ..... hardly possible in a normal mathematical way - and just about useful in getting a sense of basic novelistic form and structure.  But it says nothing about meaning and characterisation etc.