And while I’m posting on evolution…

I found this absolutely fascinating run-down of the continuum that exists between creation and evolution.

The categories: (from most to least literal)
Flat Earthers
Geocentrists
Young-Earth Creationism
Old Earth Creationism
Gap Creationism
Day-Age Creationism
Progressive Creationism
Intelligent Design Creationists
Evolutionary Creationism
Theistic Evolution
Materialist Evolutionism

Latter-day Saints find justification in the Book of Moses for the Day-Age view, although many I have talked to actually slide up toward the Evolutionary Creationism side of things.

Of particular interest was the graphic that shows the ancient Hebrew conception of the universe.

Last week in church (yes, I do still go, it’s very complex, more later), they did the lesson on the Creation, and everyone’s all “What’s the firmament?” So the chart does double duty: it explains what the firmament is, and shows how loony you’d have to be to take any of it literally.

Update: Oh, all right, not loony. But in this day and age, you’d have to have something wrong with your mind to reject what we know about space in favour of the view of a nomadic people that didn’t have telescopes.

Or else you’re just not thinking. That was my problem. Everything was just, “Oh, I’ll figure that out later,” and then I would never think about it again. Too often, smart people in a religious tradition (which is how I somewhat conceitedly classify myself) make no attempt to apply sound reasoning to religious belief. It’s like that whole domain is exempt from analysis. Or they know the belief won’t stand up, and ditching it is too painful. So — blackout.