2001: A Space Odyssey | Ideas for Group Discussions
Modern Western thought includes several perspectives on the origins of the universe and of life. Religious literalism may hold with a Six Day Creation occurring about 6000 BC, with each twenty-four hour day's developments being a new product of God's spoken word. Theistic evolutionism blends acceptance of scientific evidence of long-term developments in plant and animal species over spans of millions of years with acceptance of a Creator God who triggered and guided the development of the universe and the life it contains.
Agnostic and atheistic evolutionary views accept...
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