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Originally Posted by hoyacoug
I have always thought that natural selection and creationism are the same thing. Things evolved to a point, and once they reached a point satisfactory to God, He instilled the Light of Christ.
Thus the commandment to "multiply and REPLENISH the Earth."
You can't replenish what you didn't already have.
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One problem: the hebrew word for which the translators supplied REPLENISH is most likely a mistranslation. Of all of the occurences of the hebrew word "male" in the bible (some 249 times), it is translated as "replenish" only seven times:
accomplish, 7; consecrate, 15; expired, 3; fill, 107; fulfil, 28; full, 48; fully, 2; gather, 2; misc, 14; overflow, 2; replenish, 7; satisfy, 2; set, 6; wholly, 6.
The most common translation, as is here seen, is "fill," which frankly makes the most sense in this context. At any rate, no definitive doctrine can truly be derived from the distinction between "fill" and "replenish," as the difference came about only in the translation from Hebrew to English.
This, of course, does not debunk any sort of evolution theory, which is entirely possible. It does show that this argument can't support that theory.