Any God could make creation...all of them did for years...think about it. But the God I believe in us beyond our basic understandings of intellect. When you look at evolution and the incredible intracancies of it, only a real God could make this happen. The problem with fundamentalism is in the interpretation......and on the third day...so a fundamentalist gets out his Timex 24 hour clock and tries to figure out how God did all that just in the third day. But when making this happen, did God have a clock and Timex himself? The people writing how creation happened in Genesis were writing to people as dumb as a box of rocks...so they used days instead of trying to explain eons an million year time sections. (Unfortunately, There are still some around as dumb as a box of rocks). Evolution cannot be fully accounted for in my mind without a limitless intellect behind it. The tool God used to create the world...was evolution. I’m a “creationist” using a different clock.
Uh, no. Not a very well thought through argument.
So where are the millions of transitional fossils?
Did death preceed sin?
Was Adam created with the appearance of age?
“The people writing how creation happened in Genesis were writing to people as dumb as a box of rocks...so they used days instead of trying to explain eons an million year time sections.”
I can understand the idea that “day” does not mean exact 24 hour periods or even that it was used to convey billions of years, but the idea it was used because the Israelites were “people as dumb as a box of rocks” makes no sense. Think about it. After “In the beginning” was ANY time reference even needed? It would only be needed for some great purpose, and that great purpose could not be that the Israelites were “people as dumb as a box of rocks”.
I can understand God's timex, as space/time is relative.
Create on one day, stretch out space time, create on the next day, stretch out space time.... To The Creator it was just a days work from his perspective. To the matter in the space time continuum it could have been trillions.
2) in multiple places in the Old Testament, the period including an evening and a morning is equivalent to 24 hours. Why should Gen. 1 be different?
3) The author apparently believes only what he can understand. Fair enough, but that makes his "god" very punny indeed.
Sad to see that your wise thinking is not popular here. However I don’t hold with the “dumb as a box of rocks” part of your reasoning. I think of Genesis rather as having been written down by inspired poets thinking metaphorically rather than by pedants thinking literally.
LOL...you seriously can't actually believe that...
God did give His human creation freedom to believe whatever they chose to believe. However, He sent an instruction manual, so, IF these children were so inclined to search, they could discern how He counts time.
As it is Written by Peter, a ‘day’ with the LORD is as a thousand years. Perhaps IF the children took His word literally they would not argue over the length of the ‘days’ of creation. Most especially since, there are two recorded floods. Genesis 1:2 describes the first one and Noah had not yet been birthed.
TOE is for the spiritually weak.
I could never in a million years believe in the fairy tale of evolution. Certain organs needed for survival and procreation could never have evolved over millions of years.
Guess that could apply to you as well, eh???
It's not only a matter of faith (or no faith) but believing in creation as written opens up vast sections of the scriptures that are forever hidden to you monkey-men...
Evolution is a non-starter. Adaptation is real and seen, but when that organisn adapts, it has not evilved into something different.
You can breed dogs all day long and get different characteristics, but in the end, all are canine.
You will not get non-dogs.
No. They. Were. Not.
That's fine example of chronological bigotry, though. Thanks for offering it up.