I agree with the basic premise of the article, which everyone seems to be missing (or many, not everyone).
Which is what I stated in my pingout comment. The reason Darwinists/evolutionists embrace their belief system - religion, if you will - is because of rejecting God being the creator. It’s that simple. Some people try to mix the two (God created via evolution) since they (may?) feel looked down upon by those who believe in evolution, but the two do not mix. It’s like trying to straddle two edges of an abyss. You have to jump to one side or the other - God Created the universe (and beyond) or Purposeless Godless Evolution.
Picking apart what a “day” means in the Bible to me is equivalent to how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Answer to both: As many angels as God wants can dance anyhow and anywhere He wants them to dance.
And a “day” means whatever He wants it to mean.
Personally my Vedic studies give somewhat different (and more) details about how creation occurred; to me the details are not so important. What is important is if all of existence is a creation by the Supreme Lord for His purposes, or is it all a meaningless accident somehow set into motion by - nothing. Those are the two choices.
Another point is that the leftist run MSM and educational institutions have almost successfully spread the propaganda for so many years - generations - that evolution is FACT so anyone who doesn’t “toe the line” is a snaggle toothed, cousin marrying, knuckle dragging, Bible thumping fool.
I don’t buy that cartoon and neither should anyone else. “Not wanting to look like a fool” is not a valuable motivation, if one indeed wants to know the truth. Especailly when those who are very quick to pin the “fool” label themselves are not - shall we say - pillars of wisdom.
>> What is important is if all of existence is a creation by the Supreme Lord for His purposes, or is it all a meaningless accident somehow set into motion by - nothing. Those are the two choices.<<
Of course those are the two choices. However, you cannot discount science completely out of hand either. God gave us the intelligence to explore, invent, and understand the earth we live on. If the Bible is to believed as the perfect word of God science must fit the information in the Bible. If it does not, one of the two is in error. We believe the Bible to be the infallible word of God so it follows that the Bible is not in error. That does not eliminate the possibility that our understanding or interpretation of the Bible is in error.
If we cannot even explain the length of day during creation or Biblically show that the world is indeed older then the 6-7000 years since Adam is it any wonder we are losing credibility with the College educated crowd?
I say it is important to understand those issues or we do injustice to our mandate to spread the word to all the world. If there is a complete difference between proven science and Biblical text people will follow one or the other but not both. I fear too many have gone with proven science over simple faith.
When we understand the Biblical text completely there is no argument between science and the Bible. The Bible has never been proven wrong.
Evolution as they try to teach it cannot be proven. However, neither can most people explain proven science with their understanding of creation.
BTW: I am a born again Christian.
Darwin gets a bum rap from the pious crowd. His book was on the Origin of Species, not the origins of life. He only sought to offer a theory on the variation and adaptation he observed. The last paragraph of "The Origin of Species" states the following:
"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."
I’m increasingly of the opinion that Vedic “gods” were some of the Biblical great men of old, men of renown, and all the extra-Biblical, Enochian implications that come with it.
Their knowledge was and is very impressive, and if you’re familiar with the subject, you know that part of the problem was the forbidden knowledge introduced into Creation via teaching mankind.
Vimanas, which sound for all the world like advanced spacecraft. Plausible descriptions of atomic warfare. Makes sense to me. Some find the notion bizarre, that I do acknowledge. It’s not at all bizarre to Biblical literalists who have familiarized themselves.