Posted on 12/15/2010 5:17:34 AM PST by ImProudToBeAnAmerican
“For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.” (Exodus 20:11a KJV)
According to evolutionary scientists, the earth is over 4 billion years old; but Biblical chronology dates the age of the earth at about 6,000 years. In an attempt to reconcile the two extreme positions, many creation scientists have used 2 Peter 3:8 to state that the six days mentioned in the Genesis account were not literal 24-hour days. However, if we used the “a day is as a thousand years” formula, we would have the six days of creation plus the day of rest equaling 7,000 years, at most. Hardly a good reconciliation with 4 billion years. So, how old is the earth?...
Fifth article in a series about Creation by Rosemarie Thompson.
Comments welcome!
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You mean we only use one percent of the brain matter?
I was not sure of the details.
Or are you mocking me because I am naive enough to believe the Bible when it says the good Lord made the Earth 6,000 years old?
Who says it’s not to be taken literally? After all, the same One who says “I am God and besides me there is no other” is the same One who said He labored six days and rested.
If you don’t believe all of it, you don’t get to believe any of it, after all, it was all given by the same author.
It seems Scripture is once again more reliable than some science. >>
A 6000 year old earth only makes sense if you are a Biblical inerrantist—which is to say, wilfully and utterly ignorant of science and the laws of physics. It is also a clinging to protestantist religious bigotry because if the earth is NOT 6000 years old maybe them Cath-o-licks have the right idea after all (since they accept evolution, having learned their lesson from the Gallileo fiasco).
God does not lie. For the Bible to be literally true He would have had to create massive false evidence of a 13.8 billion year old universe, including falsely planted fossils of every variety and light from stars created in situ only a few hundred light years from our solar system so that they can arrive “just in time”.
God does not lie; he is, however, the original poet. And the Biblical image of creation is high, indeed the highest, poetry. But literally true? Only if Pi can equal precisely three (which the Bible claims).
The Bible does not say the good Lord made the Earth 6,000 years old.
Time is relative. If you were standing at the point of the big bang (where God would have been) The entire Universe would be, about six days old. I’m relying on a physicists calculations here, but that’s what several have come up with. People think just speed effects time, it is also mass.
Some folks find it incredible that I believe the Earth is 6,000 years old.
I find it incredible that highly educated people think we evolved from sludge or apes. A keen study of our five senses should end any speculation at once and forever. But they keep believing and promoting a lie from the master of lies.
They are better off believing aliens seeded the planet a long time ago then to indulge in nonsense about evolution.
Heck, even the different Christian denominations cannot live peacefully along side of each other.
This will be my “quote of the day”, if you don’t mind.
I didn’t know that about the Bible and Pi. Thanks. But, here is a possible explanation of the Pi discrepancy: http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/pibible.htm
So, now you can go ahead and believe again in the inherency of the Bible.
No reply other than a personal attack. Color me shocked.
Time exists so everything doesn’t happen at once.
what kind of a dolt thinks that life developed from non-life,.............................................................................................................................................................You mean like from a hunk of clay. Interesting that bible lore says god created all of the heavens and earth and all of its animals out of nothing just from a nod yet he had to mold some clay together and breath into it to get man. Also, if prior to the “sin” of adam, and death did not exist, why did he make both male and female of all the species? Why would there be a reason to procreate?Talk about suspension of belief!Why would gender even become an issue if there was no death?
Rosemarie Thompson writes for the online magazine Inspire Tomorrow
and her own website www.KingdomScribe.org
Previous articles in this Creation vs Evolution series:
Creation vs Evolution: Why it Matters
In The Beginning: Shedding Light on Creation
My guess is that God made us with the capability to understand ourselves and the Universe, eventually.
Right now we understand about 10%.
In the beginning, there was nothing ... then it exploded.
Great answer!
Answer me this.
If the Bible is in error, then where does your salvation lay? Can’t have it both ways, either the Scripture is whole and not in error or it’s in error and not to be trusted.
As for your other quip, maybe you should learn a little more about the Bible before you bring that tired old attack in here. It’s been proven false and only those with an agenda to push continue to hold to it.
Here’s proof that you’re full of it. http://www.purplemath.com/modules/bibleval.htm
Obviously untrue. A guy I worked with can prove that easily (in rehab now).
This argument frustrates me. At the end of the day, there are holes in the evidence on both sides. In other words, NOBODY REALLY KNOWS. Besides, aside from being a point of division, is it really relevant? God in his majesty can do whatever he wants and what He does is not dependent on our understanding how he did whatever it was. It just IS and God is awesome.
Here is my best (and only) rebuttal to this debate:
Isaiah 55:8-9 (New King James Version)
8 “ For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.
9 “ For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
One of the most ignorant statements ever mmade on FR.
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