Did our founding fathers believe in evolution or creation?

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…The Declaration of Independence

Wow, you mean our founding fathers believed Genesis was historically accurate? The foundation of Christianity rests upon Genesis as the foundation of this great land rests upon The Declaration of Independence, which is in total agreement with Genesis 1.

Therefore, creation is taught in public schools, just don't let the ACLU in on our little secret.

 

I’m assuming you’re referring to Joshua 10 or Psalm 19:6, to try and prove your theory, but events in the bible often are written in ‘phenomenal language.’ Meaning that man uses language to express phenomena as he sees it.

To this day we teach out kids that the ‘sun rises in the east and sets in the west,’ and astronomers and navigators use the earth as a fixed point for purposes of simple observation, expressing distances and directions in relation to it. The weatherman will often state when the sun is going to ‘rise’ and ‘set’, but no one accuses him of any scientific error. Wonder why?

 

Sorry Paul, but if you believe the opening phrases of The Declaration of Independence, then you’re a walking contradiction, since you believe in evolution. The opening phrase says nothing about men evolving it says men are created.

 

Your denial starts with Genesis 1. The difference between you and I is that my ancestors are descendents of a literal Adam and Eve, which were created by their Creator and were fruitful and multiplied, just as the genealogies of the bible state.

You on the other hand, believe that your ancestors suddenly sprang into existence and later evolved into a monkey, which later evolved into present day humans, which God then interjected and breathed a soul into two of them.