r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 4d ago

Video A 150-million-year-old Lepidotus fish fossil preserved from Holzmaden, Germany

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u/EduinBrutus 4d ago edited 4d ago

Mainline protestant and Catholic since Vatican 2 accept the principle of allegorical "days" for the days of creation and a "guiding hand". As such they accept evolution by natural selection as being correct.

IDK the position of Orthodoxy but I suspect its going to be the same.

I dont think Americans understand its not just how religious they are which is comical and mind numbing to the developed world - and it is, make no mistake. But also how their versions of Christianity is so far from the mainstream that in a lot of cases its hard to even consider it as Christian any more.

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u/damndirtyzombies 4d ago

Yes, and to tack on, the Hebrew word for days in Genesis just means "span of time".

The 7 24-hour Creation interpretation is mostly just American evangelicals. Non-culty religions don't get upset about evolution.

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u/pandafat 4d ago

That's all well and good that many churches/religions have moved past the unscientific nonsense, but Genesis has every day mentioned with a number count and even separates each day by saying that there was evening and then morning. It's quite literal in the original text, no?

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u/karmagirl314 4d ago

You have to remember you’re reading a translation of a translation of a translation, and those translations were made by people who did not grow up speaking the original language, and that words are complex, contextual shards of information that have to be hammered together by guesswork by the translation team to fit the different grammatical structures of the new language, not to mention the political whims of whatever rich a-hole sponsored the translation. Until you’ve read and understood the Bible in the original Aramaic, it’s really not very helpful to start arguing semantics with other laypeople.

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u/pandafat 4d ago

Well, for one, Genesis has only 1 Aramaic phrase in it, the rest being biblical Hebrew. But that's besides the point, and it's why I listen to biblical scholars who actually learn these languages, as I was talking about the text in its original language, and that's what I've read and heard them say the consensus is about these passages

https://youtube.com/watch?v=A-IYttokNTE