[Zen]

I highley recomend that each and every person experiance the power and spirtual cleansing of strong faith, it will undoubtably change your life. And as I see it the purpose and benifit is soley individual and personal.

For matters of origen and creation, we simply must explore all opinions and theories with a grain of salt. There is not a person on the planet that can properly explain or understand those questions, and I have my doubts as to whether we will ever know.

What we do have, however is science. With science we can start to understand things as fact instead of just speculation. The following are proven facts:

the Book of God

The bible as we know it was composed in the 1500's by a monk in Itally. The region, his faith, and the standards of the time ecouraged it's editing. This bible is composed of stories, written word, and folk of the holy lands people. These collections of accounts were then edited by the monk to create our bible.
These stories, folk-tales, and written words were gathered from a language that no longer existed... even then. Translation was fair at best.

Jesus

Dispite popularity, the actual existance of the savior is uncertain. Records of the day were mostly composed for tax reasons...keep in mind, this is the time of the Roman Empire and non-Roman citizens were recorded by head count...not name. So there is no written record of Jesus. The story does fit, however. The time frame and his placement in it is fairly acurate, also the inacuracies can in some cases be attributed to the "loss" of time. ie:Its 2004 "AD" not the year 118,000.


You can make of that what you like, one thing that is certain is "Evolution". This is indisputable. How it began may be a bit hazy but a natural process called adaptation is the very reason we... and all life on the planet has survived.