I find I'm a compatibilist.

[sprinkleeninow]

My ears are also presently ringing.
Thot I'd hit the sack early, but look what I 've done.
You appreciate these, fine.
You don't appreciate these, fine.
I go either way.
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[link:http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/view/de-beer-genesis-creation-and-evolution|

[link:https://oca.org/reflections/fr.-lawrence-farley/evolution-or-creation-science|

[link:http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/MorelliOrthodoxPsychology.php|

[link:https://oca.org/reflections/fr.-john-breck/on-reading-the-story-of-adam-and-eve|

[link:https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/glory2godforallthings/2014/02/06/evolution-creation-and-the-hidden-cause/|

[yallerdawg]

1. Great, informative, educational links.

Compatible is the best place to be.

[sprinkleeninow]

5. A belated thanks for your affirmation. 🤗

[edhopper]

2. Seems all those articles

are really saying why the bible shouldn't be taken as anything but another ancient myth.
No different than those of any other culture. And tells us things about tose peoples, but nothing about the existence of any gods.

[Voltaire2]

3. In philosophy "compatibilism" is generally

about reconciling free will with a deterministic physical universe. It is a hugely complicated subject, with roots going back to the beginning of the western philosophical tradition.

These days it is not about making sense of the biblical cosmology, that stuff is hopeless.

Here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism

[sprinkleeninow]

6. I am not fortunate enough to have had the benefit of an

education extraordinaire like some.
I used the term to signify that I hold as reasonable in Christian theory or deduction that the cosmos and all within was created during a very long span of time and not within the rigid 'six day' timeframe. And this creative force could be seen as using an evolutionary process.

Oy.

[Voltaire2]

7. Ok but as I said, that is not what the word

actually means. By the way the Stanford encyclopedia is a great way for anyone to get the basic of philosophy.

[guillaumeb]

4. On the Adam and Eve story,

the meaning of the name Eve is omitted. Eve in Hebrew means life. But for some atheistic literalists, the story must only be read literally so it can be used to criticize religion.

[Voltaire2]

8. Oh horseshit.

The literal interpretation of genesis, including Adam and Eve, was accepted as true within Christian culture almost universally until at least the mid 19th century.

Now of course it is embarrassingly idiotic so apologists have been inventing fan fiction to attempt to salvage something.

[guillaumeb]

10. Perhaps you should have done more reading.

[Major Nikon]

13. Perhaps you should work on a better set of comebacks

Just sayin’

[guillaumeb]

15. No need when my responses are true.

[Major Nikon]

17. That's also what you say about your fan club

Just sayin’

[guillaumeb]

18. I suggest that you read a bit about deism.

It might help you to not make that mistake again.

[Major Nikon]

19. Please continue

Your willingness to keep repeating a massive faceplant is well worth it and you should be roundly congratulated for the effort.

[guillaumeb]

20. Your attempt to rewrite what you actually wrote is noted.

[Major Nikon]

21. Funny how you can't cite that

You might also note how you didn’t even attempt to explain how your nonsense claim wasn’t a non-sequitur.

So as I said, please do continue to bear false witness. I’m more than happy to republish your nonsense for all to see. There might be someone left who doesn’t understand the depths of your insincerity.

[guillaumeb]

22. I already did, in a reply to you and to another.

Which makes me wonder about what exactly you feel you are doing, and why.

[Major Nikon]

23. Bullshit has been called and you have no answer

That’s why.

Please continue drawing attention to your blatant false accusations. I’ll keep letting you do so as long as you want.

[guillaumeb]

24. Again, and please do not mislay it:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1218&pid=282852

[Major Nikon]

25. You stole my line!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1218&pid=282871

Bullshit called, crickets.

[guillaumeb]

26. You are fighting with yourself.

I am uncertain at this point who is winning.

[Major Nikon]

27. Let me clarify

I politely explained how you misrepresented my post from the beginning and even gave you the benefit of the doubt. You should have quit while you were behind. Now it’s just a matter of seeing how many times you want to relive your mistake.

By all means please continue. I’m interested to see how far down the rabbit hole this goes and I’m easily amused.

[Major Nikon]

9. There's still people today who take the story literally

Not to mention the billions of people who did so since that story originated. Seems like it would take a lot of "hubris" to believe you got it right and they got it wrong, no?

[guillaumeb]

11. Hubris?

Writing about the literal meanings of the names is not hubristic, it is actual knowledge.

[Major Nikon]

12. Sure, you alone have exclusive access to the truth

Oh wait, I forgot you just parroted it and pretended it was your own original thought. Either way you disparage those who do actually take it literally and have for thousands of years.

I believe someone once said, “Some feel that their own intellect is capable of discerning what is true and what is merely illusion. The Greeks had a word for that. The word is hubris.”

Can’t for the life of me remember who said that. At any rate it makes more sense now, no?

[guillaumeb]

14. Now you are moving large quantities of straw.

It must get tiring.

[Major Nikon]

16. Sure, because putting your own words in your mouth is the epitome of strawman

Do you even read what you write, or do you have something that produces this material for you?

Either way it’s hilarious, so please don’t stop.