Evolution?

[Leebo]

I find it difficult to see how anyone can believe that the bible is not an accurate book of history, how they believe that Jesus of Nazareth did not walk upon this earth, or that the accounts of what he did and claimed to be are false or simply stories of legend. There is simply too much evidence that supports the biblical account. From ancient works of antiquity from Taciturn and Josepheoues, to more recent archelogical evidence. So I pose this, if the bible is correct and Jesus did walk upon this earth, and he performed the accounts that the bible says he did (again there is a mountain of evidence, too lengthy to write here) then accepting all this, how can we believe that God did not create the heavens and the earth? How do we say creationism did not occur and that instead, suddenly without any provocation that a big bang of sufficient force to create life suddenly occured? Life is too exact, too tightly intertwined to have happened by chance.

I am greatly enjoying the scholarly debate that is going on here between to well educated members of our forum. For those who are interested in reading about the mountains of evidence for the bible and for Christ, I point you to a good book called "The Case for Christ" by Lee Strobel. As for me, I came away from this book believing that it would take a greater leap of faith to be an atheist then to be a Christian.

It sounds to me like you are making a leap from "Jesus was a real historical figure and the Bible contains some real historical accounts" to "therefore everything in the Bible must be true."

You can believe there was probably a person named Jesus who had a following, while not believing the rest of the mythological accounts. A good portion of the Bible's accounts of geological history are demonstrably false. There is also very little material to document Jesus's life outside of the Bible.

Additionally, the theory of evolution does not say that life took its current form by chance. You equated the Big Bang, the origin of life, and evolution in a single sentence, when those are 3 completely separate areas of study. Earth is a tiny speck in a remote area of a galaxy which is just one of hundreds of billions. The universe seems to largely be a lifeless, inhospitable, empty place.

And I just want to say, since it's come up a few times, the Big Bang was not an explosion in the way we think of it, it was an expansion of space itself.