Bill Moyers is one of the smarter people on the planet.
He’s also one of the more spiritual folks around, given that he once was ordained as a Baptist minister back in his native East Texas.
The link attached here talks about the “partisan divide” over whether life on Earth evolved over billions of years or was created by God in six days. The blog is written by a staffer on his “Moyers and Company” PBS show. Even though Moyers himself didn’t write it, he likely endorses its content.
I’ll posit this notion: The polling examined in this link is meaningless.
I’ve never for a moment believed that creationism and evolution were mutually exclusive theories. In my own heart and soul I believe they are the same.
I’ve read the Bible my entire life — or at least that portion of it in which I’ve been able to read. I know what it says in Genesis about how God created the world. However, I’ve always had difficulty believing He completed the task in six calendar days, you know, the way we measure time today.
I have long believed that the creation as told in the Bible is a metaphor for what actually occurred over a much, much, much longer period of time.
I’ll concede there’s no mention of T-Rex in the Bible or other such creatures. I cannot ignore, however, the mountains of scientific evidence of T-Rex’s existence at one time. Did God put those creatures on Earth? Sure he did. He’s God and is capable of doing anything — any … thing … at … all!
Gallup notes that Republicans believe more in the biblical story of creation more than Democrats. This is just me here spouting off, but that doesn’t make Republicans more God-fearing than Democrats.
Nor does the discussion of creationism and evolution mean they couldn’t have occurred at the same time.