I have no problem believing in natural selection and evolution, and I have no problem accepting that a higher power may have been involved in the process. But accepting a higher power's hand in creating the universe does not automatically lead to a belief in the same God that wiped out the entire human race (except Noah and family) or advocated the murder of innocent women and children in the slaughter of the Canaanites, to mention just one example.
Stories that get in the way of belief are not reason not to believe - reason to question and to think and to wonder what the pieces must be in order for it all to fit together sure.
Agreed. Just because its not how we imagine it, doesn't mean there is any less validity in God, or our creator. Often times many things are not as we imagine them to be in reality.
I have no problem believing in natural selection and evolution, and I have no problem accepting that a higher power may have been involved in the process. But accepting a higher power's hand in creating the universe does not automatically lead to a belief in the same God that wiped out the entire human race (except Noah and family) or advocated the murder of innocent women and children in the slaughter of the Canaanites, to mention just one example.
Stories that get in the way of belief are not reason not to believe - reason to question and to think and to wonder what the pieces must be in order for it all to fit together sure.
Agreed. Just because its not how we imagine it, doesn't mean there is any less validity in God, or our creator. Often times many things are not as we imagine them to be in reality.