[OBW]

Just looked at the source forum and note that everything seems to have ended back in 2010 or so. But I saw another thread on something like "do you think that belief in evolution is blasphemy to God?" And somewhere in it, one of the guys who were primarily in discussion stopped to chase off the Local Church nut jobs trying to take over his thread.

As for his topic, I can honestly say that I do not think that belief in evolution is blasphemy. My understanding of blasphemy is to attribute something to God in such a manner that it misrepresents Him and denigrates Him. So thinking that evolution is true does not seem to arrive at that level.

But beyond that, even if it could be a valid assessment, I would disagree with the statement because I see nothing in the first books of Genesis that defines how man and the other life on this planet came to be. Only that God "did it." While Genesis says that God made it all, it also says that God said "let the land produce" with respect to both the plant life and the animal life. So did the land do it, or did God?

I really don't care in detail. But in broad terms, it is clear that the beginning was not some cosmic bang. Something did not come from nothing without something else being there to plan, direct, and execute.

If the steps from the beginning of the creation to the fact of mankind as we know it was simply a few days of God's effort, or a protracted development as ordained when he spoke for it to happen (like through some kind of evolution), I can't get excited about it. God still did it.