How do religous people belive in Evolution?
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[QUOTE="Teenaged"]Yep, whatever seems fake....is metaphoric...whatever seems not too outrageous is probably literal....ah religious people. The thing is that such an approach to narration isnt exclusive to religious texts. Of course, it can probably be said that those who do use such an approach in their writings have been influenced directly or indirectly by religious texts.Religion is not just scripture and scripture can be interpreted metaphorically.
Sure some people will ask how one can know which parts are metaphorical and which parts are literal. Just because there is no definite answer to that doesnt mean that the extreme case of taking it all literally is more preferrable.
The-Tocino
I dont see why what you point out matters necessarily for the religion. It may matter for things that draw their validity from their godly inspiration (and even then we cant say that it disproves it for certain; God may as well be using allegories to speak to a species that is lesser than him and that doesnt have the capacity to fully comprehend "his ways"), but I think that slowly religions are starting to not hinge on this godly inspiration for their validity or their trustworthiness.
Maybe in the future religions will be much less deity-oriented.
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