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Originally Posted by MouseWife
GD~ I read your post...what do you think? Okay, this may come up with you and Theo at some point {or not}. My niece has her daughter in Christian school. Yet, she took her to the Natural History Museum...isn't that a contradiction? Or is it?
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Technically speaking, yes. The version of reality presented at the Natural History Museum is in direct contradiction with the version of reality that the bible presents.
Now, that doesn't stop people from somehow holding both thoughts to be true in their own minds - that science is right AND at least some portion of the version of deity presented in the bible is also true. I personally can't comprehend that. If any part of what, according to the bible, makes god/Jesus a divine being worthy of belief and worship is true, then the whole premise of science, of paleontology, of any human intellectual endeavor would seem to me to be pretty moot. I don't the idea of picking and choosing which aspects of the bible are literally true and which are not. On what basis does one decide?
But people do, go figure.
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I love the fish with the feet. That represents both, right?
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Most people who have the fish with feet (aka. the Darwin Fish or the Evolve Fish) are not trying to represent both. They're taking the traditionally Christian symbolism of the fish and satirizing it with the feet to represent evolution, and pretty pointedly are saying they DON'T believe in biblical creationism.