This is supposed to be anti-Biblical, in particular, anti-Young Earth Creationist. But Old Earth Creationism / Divinely Guided Evolution is also very well established in Christian tradition, and is fairlypopular. [...]
I don’t think it would be too hard to remove/de-emphasize the (partially imagined) conflict with religion and turn this into a song I really like.
I’m curious what you think of the original version of the song, which I interpret as something like anti-Young Earth but pro-Divinely Guided Evolution.
The original version of the song reads to me as being deist or pantheist. You could replace ‘God’ with ‘Nature’ and the meaning would be almost the same. My view of Divinely Guided Evolution has a personal God fiddling with random mutations and randomly determined external factors to create the things He wants.
It is definitely anti-Young-Earth-Creationism, but it is also dismissive of the Bible. Even if you don’t think that Genesis 1 should be treated as a chronology, I think that you should take the Bible seriously. Its commentary on what it means to be human is important.
I’m curious what you think of the original version of the song, which I interpret as something like anti-Young Earth but pro-Divinely Guided Evolution.
The original version of the song reads to me as being deist or pantheist. You could replace ‘God’ with ‘Nature’ and the meaning would be almost the same. My view of Divinely Guided Evolution has a personal God fiddling with random mutations and randomly determined external factors to create the things He wants.
It is definitely anti-Young-Earth-Creationism, but it is also dismissive of the Bible. Even if you don’t think that Genesis 1 should be treated as a chronology, I think that you should take the Bible seriously. Its commentary on what it means to be human is important.