I am a Christian who belongs to a liberal Protestant denomination.

I have no problem reconciling the Genesis creation story with modern science. I believe the Genesis story does not necessarily diverge significantly from the scientific record. The creation story, as reported in Genesis, tracks "days" during which God created various aspects of the universe.

But even if I think that was just luck - having the Genesis story largely track the path of evolution from the Big Bang, it doesn't make me choose between my faith and science.

I can also see the Genesis story as a way of providing an explanation for creation that could be understood by people who lacked the knowledge we enjoy today. Much of the Bible in my mind is allegory and story telling and not historical.

But the nut cases on the right want to disavow science. They hate it because it doesn't conform to their world view. Modern science reveals that the genes of blacks, hispanics and asians are 99.99999% the same as whites. Modern science reveals a very strong indication that mankind is the product of a very lengthy evolution from more primitive forms of life. Modern scientific findings postulate a "big bang". Modern science suggests that homosexuality is naturally occurring and has a genetic component.

Modern science suggests stupidity is alive and well in the Republican party...Ooops that one is still subject to peer review.

But you get the point.

Check this out.



Factory icons.

In their mind a smokestack equals MONEY.



To them, this place is making a FORTUNE.

Republicans believe anything that stops that smoke kills profits.

The Genesis story (which one to start with, there are two, both of which you are required to literally believe as a Christian. Refusal to do so means you have no faith, and blind unquestioning belief, the definition of the word accepted in court is required

Here is a nice list of how far it deviates from reality

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/science/long.html

Look at rain. That's water falling from the sky. The rain falls because water is heavier than air, right? Well, then Mr. smarty-pants science-guy, how did the water get up in the sky in the first place? Huh? Where was your gravity then?

But if not, the water gets in the air by way of a scientifically-proven process called evaporation.

You see water, with the scientific "screen ID" of H2O can have 3 different "states" (not states like Oklahoma, Ohio and Texass). Those 3 states are liquid (like when you take a whizz), frozen (like the ice you cut on the lake when you go ice fishing) and gaseous (like steam).

So what happens is this......The sun shines down on the water in lakes, rivers, seas and oceans and as it warms the liquid water it reaches the point at which it changes to its gaseous state. Because it is lighter than the air around it it rises and when it reaches a certain altitude it condenses into clouds and turns back into its liquid state.

Hope that helps

So now you're claiming that the sun makes the ocean's boil! Hah, I say.

The boiling point of water is 212 degrees Fahrenheit (or 100 degrees Celsius, because the Celsians can't count worth a darn).

Besides it's night half the time. And sometimes it rains at night. What's the sun got to do with that?

Besides besides Einstein proved that Newton got gravity wrong.

And cloud formation is way more complicated than that. Even the climate scientists on the IPCC admit they don't understand it. (That part's real. There are issues involving particulates that form nucleation sites, and that leads to cloud seeding theories.)




Anyway, what's a sarcasm tag? I've never heard of a sarcasm tag. I don't even think sarcasm is a real thing. I think you made up sarcasm . . . and gravity.

The planet doesn't give a fuck what the flat-earthers and Jesus freaks "believe"! K&R

But yeah Neil is spot on.