Help ! The bible won't let me believe in these things? Will they?

Question

I can't believe in Flu Vaccinations, because then I'd admit that viruses mutate and evolve.

I can't believe in Earthquakes, because they prove plate-tectonics, which shows small evidence of major motion spanning millions and millions of years.

I can't believe in Dinosaurs, because the fossil record using radiometric dating, goes back further than the bible says existed. It also shows evidence of species mutating and then adapting. Surviving to form completely different species : Here is an example of one species becoming another today!!! :

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060603/sc_space/electricfishonvergeofevolutionarysplit

I can't believe in Gravity, because it is just a theory and if Evolution is just a theory, then Gravity is just a theory. And so is the earth being round. And so is life on other planets. It's all theory!

Is 2+2=4 a theory?

Answer 1

You can believe what you want to believe because God gave man free will. My will is to believe that God wanted us to advance in this life and there is no where in the Bible that says that you can't believe in the things you mentioned. I did not see these things prohibited in the Ten Commandments.

Answer 2

Firstly and foremost, viruses don't "evolve." They lose certain functions that helps the body identify the virus. There has been no observed positive net gain of genetic information, only a resorting or loss of genetic information, so you can rule out evolution.

What's stopping there from being massive plate-tectonic movements during Noah's Flood? The Bible clearly suggests this by stating that the fountains of the great deep broke up. It is implied that there were much volcanic activity at the time, and how about the soft bending of layers of rocks in such places as the Grand Canyon? This soft bending suggests that the layers (which evolutionists teach are layers over millions of years) bent while they were wet. If the layers had indeed existed for millions of years, they would have to break - the result of trying to bend layers that are dry and old.

Radiometric dating is based on presuppositionary thinking. Scientists that use this dating method have to plug in several assumptions:
1) The starting condition - do they plug in 4 billion years or 6000 years?
2) That the decay rate has been constant. However, Noah's Flood would have greatly upsetted this due to volcanic activity, causing fossils to have ages appearing older than they really are.

Those assumptions alone are enough to yield falsified data.

Gravity, unlike evolution, is testable and repeatable, it is not origins science. Origins science involves making guesses about the past based on your presupposition. Your presupposition is that the world came around in billions of years, but my presupposition comes from the Bible, which teaches a young earth created in 6 24-hour periods.

Of course, the biggest problem with evolution is the fact that you cannot have life with oxygen and you cannot have life without oxygen. We know that there was oxygen when life first existed, however, oxygen is a highly corrosive element and will break down bonds before they could start life. In short, emergence from the evolutionist's idol of primordial soup is practically impossible.

Answer 3

you've self belief that viruses mutate and evolve.. they accomplish that with the aid of fact we try to play God and make vaccines. The virus turns into more advantageous than the vaccine. If we'd have left the flu on my own, it would in all hazard nevertheless have a similar straine. you've self belief in Earthquakes.. you've self belief that God made plates on earth and that they are able to pass. God created the Grand Canyon. did you be responsive to that each of the fossils that are interior the earth could be defined interior the Bible? there became a great flood and the waters got here from above the earth and the waters got here from below the earth. The waters have been so reliable that they smashed each of the animals and flowers into the floor and the rocks, imbedding them there. The ark survived with the aid of fact God had his hand on it. Deep caverns such with the aid of fact the Grand Canyon have been the two created this manner, or God positioned them there interior the beginning up. did you be responsive to that in case you pour acid on a bone and bury it way below floor, some stupid scientist will dig it up in 10 years and say its a million years previous. it is how carbon dating is falsified. in case you maintain interpreting those posts you will see that Zatte (whoever it is) says that i'm a scientist wanna be and that i don't be responsive to what i'm speaking approximately. even however, all this carbon dating stuff and everthing else I particularly have written indexed right here are issues that I researched daily for 6 months to write down a term paper. I interviewed scientists and Christians and positioned what they reported in a paper referred to as advent vs. Evolution. that is all shown scientifically. See, us as Christians, we are smarter than human beings think of. some scientists that have self belief in creationism particularly did this "pouring acid on bones and function it carbon dated" concern.. and the conclusions have been that scientists dated the bones back thousands and thousands of years. So Zatte.. close up in case you don't be responsive to what you're speaking approximately.

Answer 4

I think you are taking it to extremes! lol. I'm a christian and I believe in all those things. I believe the big bang theory; God said BANG, and it was so..I believe God created man and the species of animals with a genetic capability to change and adapt over time and to environment. Out of the first ppl, we now have ppl in all colors, shapes and sizes. Out of the species, for instance cats, we have many different kinds of feline species. I believe a cat will always be a cat. But that cat over time can change into something smaller, larger, change from spots to stripes to solids. I also believe the earth to be millions of yrs old. Age dating of the bible is just a few persons interpretation on mans lineage. And there is mention of a dinosaur in the book of Job. Probably a brontosaurus being described since there were no giraffes in that part of the world. Read it for yourself! Good luck and God bless in your search!

Answer 5

The fish are likely on the verge of splitting into two species, the researchers announced today. is that the article your talking about that maybe something might happen? and there are so many problems with your argument i dont even know where to start so all ill say is this, how many specie in the fossil record and how many now? much less, which organ system could develop first with out the aid of the others, could you have a circulatory system with out say the aortal side absorbing more fluid than the ventral side, ( your veins carry 70% of your blood volume)? and finally no one ever said that natural selection doesnt happen when did you hear that?

Answer 6

Just cause things mutate of become resistant to stuff proves evolution? When another fish emerges from the water and writes poetry get back to me. Radiometric dating is not exact and how are we to believe that one day nothing exploded and everything started?
Are you upset with the doctors in China who removed the third arm from that baby because they are reversing the affects of evolution? You got the bible stuff wrong, by the way.

Both beliefs take faith, cause no one "saw" the start of either.

Answer 7

It is not advised to believe in the theory of Evolution and the theory that we humans evolved from monkeys that came from a gene pool. God created all living and non-living things, and there is no scientific theory that can disprove that. If there really was a gene pool, where did it come from? If there really was a "Big Bang" how did it happen and why? All these things are very popular theories, and the only logical and religious explanation is that God created all.

Answer 8

2+2 is not a theory, it's a fact that it equals 4. you can believe everything you mentioned while reading the bible. God created the world with dinosaurs, and gravity, andmade the plates spin. it's the same thing as saying...i can't believe in God because of the way i reproduce.

Answer 9

I hope this is just satire and you know that the Bible doesn't prevent you from believing anything of the sort. It is certain groups of people who want you to see the Bible as they do and their rigid interpretation that doesn't allow for these things to co-exist.

For the record-- that story isn't necessarily showing evolution-- it's showing natural selection in motion. Few people deny that species change to adapt to new environments. I often correct Creationists when they insist we "came from apes"-- telling them we have common ancestors with apes. It's only right I correct people misusing our understanding of evolution to promote evolution.

Answer 10

I think you have thought a little too far into this. I respect your opinion to be an atheist, we are given the right to chose, and thankfully, our country enforces these rights.

There are a lot of things that are controversial, and we will never know all of the answers to everything. Scientists are doing the best they can, but it's just not possible. In my personal beliefs, it's the fact that we don't know for sure what will happen after we die that makes faith so special.