{"id":4491,"date":"2014-01-19T01:22:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T01:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4491"},"modified":"2014-01-19T01:22:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T01:22:04","slug":"evolution-creationism-arent-mutually-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4491","title":{"rendered":"Evolution, creationism aren&#8217;t mutually exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Bill Moyers is one of the smarter people on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>The link attached here talks about the &#8220;partisan divide&#8221; 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 &#8220;Moyers and Company&#8221; PBS show. Even though Moyers himself didn&#8217;t write it, he likely endorses its content.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lATKlD9bTF\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/billmoyers.com\/2014\/01\/17\/the-growing-partisan-divide-on-evolution\/\">The Growing Partisan Divide on Evolution<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The Growing Partisan Divide on Evolution&#8221; &#8212; BillMoyers.com\" src=\"https:\/\/billmoyers.com\/2014\/01\/17\/the-growing-partisan-divide-on-evolution\/embed\/#?secret=7UHyguzt7U#?secret=lATKlD9bTF\" data-secret=\"lATKlD9bTF\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll posit this notion: The polling examined in this link is meaningless.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read the Bible my entire life &#8212; or at least that portion of it in which I&#8217;ve been able to read. I know what it says in Genesis about how God created the world. However, I&#8217;ve always had difficulty believing He completed the task in six calendar days, you know, the way we measure time today.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll concede there&#8217;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&#8217;s existence at one time. Did God put those creatures on Earth? Sure he did. He&#8217;s God and is capable of doing anything &#8212; any &#8230; thing &#8230; at &#8230; all!<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t make Republicans more God-fearing than Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Nor does the discussion of creationism and evolution mean they couldn&#8217;t have occurred at the same time.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Moyers is one of the smarter people on the planet. He&#8217;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 &#8220;partisan divide&#8221; over whether life on Earth evolved over billions of years &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evolution, creationism aren&#8217;t mutually exclusive<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[610,1182,1658,4494],"class_list":["post-4491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bible","tag-creationism","tag-evolution","tag-t-rex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}