Here is my answer to the debate.
Both are correct. Here's how easy it is. God started making the earth before time existed. God created time. A day to God is like millions of years to us. It even says that in the bible.
So creation and evolution are actually the same thing!
Now can we all get along? (I'm so brilliant)
2006-09-05
05:53:14
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My (implied) question was "What do all you dogma and atheist types think about just agreeing to a compromise and shaking hands?"
2006-09-05
06:06:08 ·
update #1
johnbntexas and tina w. Ummmm, I'm a girl.
2006-09-05
06:10:49 ·
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Hermit, I loooove your question " how and where is the origin of life related to the creation of time"
Time is a construct and set of rules for a finite system. From within the system, it seems a universal truth, but cannot be because something must exist outside the system, therefore outside time.
The "origin" of life suggests a beginning, beginning suggests time. If you are asking how life began, you are asking a time question and thus, the answer must relate to something outside time. I guess the "how" is still up for debate and those who believe in creation have resolved that for themselves. Those that believe only in science are still looking. Maybe they should look somewhere outside the construct of time?
2006-09-05
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The theory of evolution is only a Theory.....and it has been proven to have more holes than a 10 pound Swiss cheese. All our scientific "facts" can't prove the non-existence of God because God could have chosen to create in a million ways. Even the Big Bang, which scientists say started it all, could easily have been done by God.
I've been saying all those things for years.
2006-09-05 06:00:56
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answered by kj 7
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You in now way explained how they are the same thing. Evolution is completely fictitious there is no scientific evidence to back it up and it is ludicrous to think about it. For instance if rats turned in to bats, how did it survive the millions of years of sucking at everything, it couldn't fly yet, but it also couldnt run as fast because the half wing things it had grown didn't work yet, it was starting to go blind, and yet its echo location had not developed. It would have been killed off very quickly by whatever hunted it. It would not survive, then on top of that, You would have to have two of them evolving the same otherwise, there would be no way to proliferate the species.
Darwin NEVER stated anything about monkeys, his THEORY was based on very small lchanges and adaptations to environments. Mainstream scientists latched on and perverted his idea into something ludicrous, not because it was true, not because it was even possible, but because it gave them a way to say that God didn't exist. Scientists are not allowed to say things like I don't know, or say that something was a miracle or an act of God or whatever, they have to have answers, because mans ego wont let us believe that there is something greater than us.
Oh and by the way, why is it that we can't seem to find any f these evolving animals, why can't we find the bat-rat, or the man-ape. Where are the millions of skeletons that would be these"hybrid" beings? Why can't they find them? One day soon, evoltion will fall out of the scientific realm, just like the big bang theory has, because they are theorys that are ultimately unprovable. Creation can't be proved wither, but there is more scientific evidence to back up creation than evolution or the big bang.
2006-09-05 06:07:27
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answered by Alex H 3
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That is indeed a theory which has been thrown around quite a lot.
I am Catholic and I believe that the Bible is a nice guide to living a good life, but I don't take everything in it as being completely and totally accurate. Even if it was inspired by God it was written by men, who perhaps could not understand everything God wanted to say. So they made up fables to explain things. Fables like the Book of Genesis and the story of the Flood.
Perhaps God guides evolution. Who knows? I just know that there is too much scientific evidence of evolution to discount it in favor of a story book written by humans.
It doesn't seem like it should be such a big deal, huh? But some people aren't happy unless they're arguing about something...
2006-09-05 06:03:26
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answered by Lady Macbeth 5
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I agree, both are correct. Also, the Bible is an inspired work. It was written by men over a long period of time, it did not fall out of the sky or anything like that. Often, what the writer is saying may not be accurately understood by the reader.
My church takes the Bible as truth. For the most part, our members do not have a problem with religion vs. science. I am a computer scientist, in my church we have doctors, lawyers, bankers, engineers, and many other educated professional people with advanced degrees. We also support a K-6 school. As these students, move into and graduate from public high schools, many end up as honor students. Believing in the Bible is not just something for ignorant fools.
2006-09-05 06:20:57
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answered by Paul K 6
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I pondered this very thought myself long ago.
Any God who could just create an entire planet and give it an atmosphere like ours, could certainly play with the laws of physics on that planet. He could make time stand still or fast forward.
We know bacteria are used by nature to break things down into a basic form, so He could have changed the rates by which things occur.
He could have changed the global climate to speed up or slow down from that which we consider to be constant.
He could have moved entire continents to keep some creatures isolated from others.
And he could have used meteorites to affect the climate on earth. Science has considerable proof that meteorites caused an ice age from all the dust they threw into the air.
A God who could create an entire planet could surely make any changes on that planet he wished.
Science as we know it is based on all things remaining at a constant rate. It can't take into account the possibility that events on earth happened at a more drastic rate.
To be fair to science, researchers must follow a set of rules. If a new "discovery" is brought to fellow scientists it must be proved beyond a doubt. That is admirable and science has done much to improve our lives.
Without science our lives would be much more difficult and shorter.
2006-09-05 06:13:16
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answered by Harley Charley 5
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Actually, Creationism can be considered nothing more than a hypothesis. Anything can be a hypothesis because it requires no proof. theory, on the other hand, deals with facts, research and experimentation. A theory is the logical outcome of a very regimented process of investigation.
I can safely hypothesize that the main deity worshiped in the Western world is surely the devil tricking us. No proof necessary and just as (in)valid as ID.
But without submitting this hypothesis to the scientific method, it is factually worthless
2006-09-05 06:04:19
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answered by Anonymous
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its funny its this guy on this Christian Network, who's always debating Evolution, to get It out of the history book, his website is compass.org. And he and others who do this always ask the question, if the big bang happened, what blew up, but I always ask myself if god created us who created him, so basically what blew up, its the same thing. His shows are back before modern computer came about, so I was watching the other day and he was talking about a computer the size of my bedroom(1993), he said computers don't evolve, we created them, but in looking at the history of computers they have evolved, with the help of there Creator, we are not perfect, we tested thing, thing fell through, but now we have computers the size of desk top speakers, and device that can store our computer the size of pennies.
And in looking at the fossils of bipedal apes, they were larger then shrank into what we are today, and we can think faster, move faster, but can broke down easier, just like our computer counter parts, not to mention the viruses.
So I agree we were created but still evolved, because mistake will be made, and i don't believe god was truly perfect, the only reason people don't like creation is because its fallible, god doesn't suppose to be, that why hes the Alpha and Omega, so he cant be created because of that, but thats not reasonable. And even if both is true, that question still is possed, but I believe if the big bang happened, it happenend because something wanted to exist, same thing for god, or maybe out of his diser to create caused the big bang.
Another thing that would help the theory, is that god would use evolution, because he uses man to carry out long thought out revolation, so it resonable to think he would use a small particle, and make it evolve into man, who then follows his other plans, and if you remember there was other people outside of Edan. so cave man, or what every could have been mistakes left out of Edan
2006-09-05 06:56:24
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answered by Derrick 3
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Evolution and Creation could NEVER be the same thing,which dictionary told you that?If the theory of evolution is correct,is this the final form of my body or should I expect to evolve to a higher life form? Tell me quickly so I could stop spending so much $$$
on make-up and clothes right now!!!!
2006-09-05 06:14:14
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answered by Ali.D 4
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Evolution.
Both can not be correct. If God creates single cell organism and it evolved, then God is passive to the evolution which is unlikely and minimeses the roll of God.
If God has created everything existing, he will not allow his creations to get extinct. But we are daily seeing races that are getting extinct, right from dinosaurs. And new viruses are being created.
It is very unlikely of God keeping mum with all these things.
Hence my answer is 'Evolution'!
2006-09-05 08:31:42
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answered by Hari Babu D 1
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How about this: We learn to get along, just because it's good for people to get along, but I DON'T have to buy into believing in your religion at all?
Why is it necessary for me to agree with your notion of reality in order for us to share the world?
I'll stay with the science that gave us civilization, and you can have the religion that brings you comfort. Then you are free to reject the science, though I'm sure you'll still enjoy its benefits, and I can find my comfort in the simple love of life.
Does that seem like a reasonable compromise?
Because frankly, yours wasn't really a compromise at all.
2006-09-05 06:26:43
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answered by Anonymous
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