Umm, how exactly does one go about not believing in evolution....

It's not a matter of believing in evolution like it is a religion or something. It's a matter of whether you have seen the evidence supporting it and have the ability to understand it.

It's ok if you don't believe in Evolution ~ Evolution believes in you!

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Do you mean evolution in the sense that people evolved from apes, or do you mean evolution in the sense that natural things evolve and adapt?

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lambaste me not

That is hilarious. So does that mean if I let evolution into my heart I can be saved? (sorry, couldn't resist)

This is kind of a dumb question. Do you believe in gravity?

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Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?

Natural selection. Yes.

Origin of the species. No.

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. - Theodore Roosevelt

Plus, the archaeological evidence is so overwhelming that 99.9% of the biologists on earth agree.

I know there is always an issue when science and theology disagree, but in this case it seems apparent that the version of events as strictly interpreted in the bible simply did not occur. This raises another unrelated, but weird point you could help me with. The Old Testament is the Torah. Jews do not believe that the Torah is a literal document. Many Christians do. What is that all about? It's the Jew's book and they say it's not literal, but the Christians who borrowed it claim it is. Weird.

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Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?

“Jews do not believe that the Torah is a literal document.”

Not true. Some believe it is literal, some don’t. I would be included in the second category. To me it’s equivalent to thinking Beowulf is literal. There’s some good themes, some sensible rules, but by and large it’s an interpretation of actual events, rather than a literal account.

I always assumed that Christians took their section to be literal – the NT – but not the Torah.

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