So, to continue, do you, because of your faith, reject out of hand the further idea that God could have created us through the mechanism of evolution? (Which appears to be the subject of this thread).
I believe micro-evolution to be scientific and rational. I believe macro-evolution to be a fraud as a science, and a danger as a belief. I don't reject that God could have created us through the mechanism of evolution, I think God could have done anything. I just don't see his NEED to. I.e. a hummingbird made "poof" by a word, or generated over time, is still a miraculous creation that requires SOMETHING INTELLIGENT at it's origin. (I feel the same way about mangoes and a host of other wonder-ful things.)
Or, tenatively going a step further, that God placed the fossils in the ground to play a joke on us?
But even in a mere 6000 years a lot of things have died. Why shouldn't there be fossils? There haven't been any non-embellished "missing links" found however, never mind the bazillions of fossils there should be were macro-evolution true.
That the light we see in our telescopes was created some 6000 years ago to fool us into believing in an old universe?
Besides the theory that the speed of light is slowing down, just because that's the speed of light, it doesn't mean they didn't just come on one day. I think our minds are relatively puny in the scope of the size of the Universe, and I honestly lose less than little sleep on these questions.
A lot of speculation is out there over even the exact nature of our Universe. There's the big ball theory, the mirror theory... personally it's as important to me as the circumference of a bowl. I'm more interested in how I fit into that Universe, how I obey all it's laws... especially the ones I can have control over, the "love your neighbor" one comes to mind.
Feel free to jump in and agree or disagree with anything you find particularly heartwarming or objectionable. Be warned that we often have to deal with the bizarre postings of medved, Gore3000, and f.Christian and so are not likely to be dissuaded from our views without strong evidence and extensive rational discourse. ;^)
EVOLUTION=DEATH---!---Evolution is a tool of THE ENEMY!!! Be his ADVERSARIES!---OR---be his VICTIMS---!!!
(But only because you suggested it.)
However, my preferred last words on the subject?
No one has ever observed bones being fossilized into mineral formations even for bones buried thousands of years old. Trillions of living things have walked, slithered, and oozed across this world - clearly, the conditions for fossils to form are extremely rare and yet, we dig up more every year. Perhaps, someday we'll dig up the last one you require to recognize their age and importance.
me: That the light we see in our telescopes was created some 6000 years ago to fool us into believing in an old universe?
youu: Besides the theory that the speed of light is slowing down, just because that's the speed of light, it doesn't mean they didn't just come on one day.
Sorry, no such scientific theory exists - that's a Creationist myth to explain what they refuse to recognize.
I think our minds are relatively puny in the scope of the size of the Universe, and I honestly lose less than little sleep on these questions.
Then why come here and post your scripture to a scientific discussion?
So very true in so many ways. It has been used as an excuse for eugenics. It has been used as an excuse for racism. It has been used as an excuse for killing tens of millions of people. More than that though, the whole process by which evolution supposedly works - natural selection - is by death, the killing of those who are supposedly 'unfit' so that the species will be cleansed of 'defects'. Interestingly also, the evolutionists also cite as the proof of the methods by which species supposedly 'progress' as the mutations which result in great harm to the organism. It is a totally backwards ideology, totally the reverse of what life is really about.