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“In a manner suitable for a primitive people to understand, God took credit for having created everything.” That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard... well, this morning anyway (don’t feel bad; I haven’t heard much yet). I’m not sure if you meant to frame it this way, but “God took credit” suggests that He was misleading or lying about His role in creation just to make it easy on the cavemen. Lying or misleading goes completely against the nature of God.

Ok. Let me rephrase it. God told a primitive people in a manner which they could understand that he created the heavens, earth and all things in it.

Your personal feelings on whether a person can “form hard opinions” “concerning creation” are irrelevant.

How so? The article was about intelligent design and I merely pointed out that scripture is insufficiently detailed to say that is the manner by which God chose to carry out his creation.

I don’t believe you or I are smart enough to determine the motives of God in a particular scriptural statement.

We can certainly agree on that.

“In the beginning GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.” Adam would not have argued with this statement

Where's the argument? God doesn't say how he did it, just that he did it. Your quote is consistent with the big bang theory as the heavens and earth emerged before life.

May be just a matter of semantics... I don’t know whether there was a big bang noise when God created the heavens and the earth (When God makes the world and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound?). I reckon creation would be some noisy business, but what it IS laid out in scripture is the number of days it took to create everything and the order in which it was all created. I’m one of those crazy guys who assume that the Word of God is literal in light of the fact I have no way to verify it one way or the other.

I have no idea how primitive the minds of our ancestors were, but I don’t have Cro-Magnon in mind when I see them. The folks that are described in the scriptures seemed to be as capable of understanding complex ideas as we are today. I’m not sure that we understand original creation with our “heightened intellect” any better than they would have. We can teach a child about science and they grow up understanding. There’s simply no evidence that the human mind was any less advanced thousands of years ago. No difference in the ability to understand but without television and computers we tend to view them as being somehow intellectually inferior. I would posit that they were in fact more capable of grasping new concepts because their minds were not clouded with an array of abstract concepts and misinformation.

We may not be that far apart in our beliefs on this, I think we probably just express it in different ways.

Thanks for your reply.