Maybe if they'll print it in the Bible. That would make him believe it. It would be the ultimate proof for him.
Problem is that they cannot reconcile evolution with Bible because according to it, God created man in his own image.
Well, if we share common ancestor with chimpanzees than that ancestor must have been God. And he is the one who created universe.
Straight out of Africa :-) Even that will not make sense, because they say God created, not descended. But then again what can you expect
from bronze age God.
Those Christians who accept evolution are not really Christians, more like Pantheists, they are on the road to Atheism.
I was brought up in Roman Catholic religion, never payed attention to religion dogma, just went along for the sake of family and friends.
I suspect most religious people follow religion for similar reasons.
What really opened my eyes was not the Bible but Quran. Because of the problems in Middle East, I started reading Quran just out of curiosity.
What a bunch of poetic nonsense? Then I turned to Bible. It was worse, especially the Old Testament.
How can religious people follow this nonsense? Fear. Fear of being rejected by their family and friends. For those super delusional, fear of going to hell,
fear of not going to heaven etc. Emotional center of their brain is shutting down the logical part. It is a survival instinct. We avoid what we perceive to be a dangerous situation. That mechanism helped us be who we are today: Home Sapiens. The great African Ape that rules the world.
Problem is that they cannot reconcile the Bible with the Bible. There are so many contradictions in there I don't even know where to start.
You can start here
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.htmlYeah, it was rhetorical. But I'm sure our religious friends will ignore the link whatsoever. Because it might just prove them wrong.
Most people would stop at the creation story:
Day 1: Sky, Earth, light (worked in the dark for most of day 1, Earth before stars? I guess because Earth was the center of the universe :-))
Day 2: Water, both in ocean basins and above the sky(just like that, no atmosphere)
Day 3: Plants (they are special one's, they don't need Sun light)
Day 4: Sun, Moon, stars (as calendar and navigational aids) (finally the Sun and other stars, poor plants, they had to wait)
Day 5: Sea monsters (whales), fish, birds, land animals, creepy-crawlies (reptiles, insects, etc.) (skipped bacteria and single cell organisms, I guess no microscopes were available in bronze age, so God did not know they existed)
Day 6: Humans (apparently both sexes at the same time, why not, you need sex, more on that in the rest of the book)
Day 7: Nothing (the Gods took the first day off and has been silent ever since)
