And if so how can you defend those beliefs to any sane resonable person???
2006-09-12 23:21:44 · 16 answers · asked by mr nice 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are twoo beweivers here.
They get by by supposing everyone else is not sane nor reasonable.
2006-09-12 23:26:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Creation: A Basic Bible Doctrine
The sum and substance of the raging "creation versus evolution" issue revolves around one thing and one thing only: whether or not the God of the Bible is the Creator and Sustainer of life and the universe. Let us see what the Bible clearly claims:
"Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded" (Isaiah 45:11,12).
This is a remarkable claim to say the least. It is either true or it is a colossal falsehood. God either created the heavens and the earth and their entire host or He didn't. These scriptures demand that we treat the matter of the creation as the foundational doctrine in the Bible. All other scriptural doctrines, laws, prophecies, and instructions hang on this single fact that the entire universe came into being by the Word of the Almighty God. We repeat: The Lord's claim is that He created the universe is either true or it is a monumental lie. There is no other conclusion one can arrive at.
The Bible pulls no punches. It informs us straight out that Satan has the whole world deceived (Revelation 12:9). Almost daily we are blitzed by brilliantly produced TV documentaries-coming in the name of "science"-claiming "Mother Nature," of her own accord, by some inexplicable, innate power, produced our grand universe and all its myriad life forms. Millions are duped by it. The Bible forewarns us of such deception: "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith" (1 Timothy 6:20,21). True science and biblical revelation exposes the theory of evolution for what it really is-a fantastic fallacy, a fallacy that is now being rejected by thousands of scientists and other intellectuals as well as believers in the Word of God. The Psalmist came to the same conclusion many centuries ago when he wrote, "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" (Psalm 14:1).
2006-09-12 23:39:01 · answer #2 · answered by His eyes are like flames 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I believe in creation. Macro evolution and the big bang theory are just that theory's. Nothing has ever been proved. The only kind of evolution that has been proved in micro ( with in the same species). Evolution leave all kinds of gaps in the theory where as creation does not. I also find it hard to believe that something came from nothing. Which in basically what you believe if you don't believe in creation. I know that something or somebody had to get things started and I believe that it was God. There are just too many things that point to creation to claim it's false.
2006-09-12 23:44:34 · answer #3 · answered by firefly 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I do.
And I could certainly explain my beliefs to a reasonable person. However, I have yet to find a truly reasonable person amongst the atheists here.
To be reasonable is to keep an open mind... to be willing of all possibilities. Yet, all I find from the atheists is little more than insults, mockeries, and general closed-mindedness.
And to answer your question:
Occam's razor states that the simplest answer is usually the right one.
Evolution : billions of billions of billions of years ago, there magically appeared a singularity filled with a large portion of the universe's matter, somehow tightly compacted into a ball. Without any outside force, this ball exploded, creating everything in existance. Eons later, atoms somehow joined with other atoms, and formed proteins. These proteins somehow joined with other proteins and made new proteins (despite having no mechanism to procreate or gain energy). These new proteins became bacteria, from there everything ever to exist spawned through the method of "everything is out to kill me, and if I don't improve, I'm dead". And somehow, one of the frailest of the animals with bones... one without natural weaponry, one without special abilities, or great strength or speed... one that would surely have been quickly wiped off the evolutionary map the moment it became frail, managed to survive against all odds and create intelligence.
Pretty complex, with lots of unneeded steps.
Creation : God said "Let it happen". It did.
Pretty simple.
Occam's razor would therefore point in the direction of Creation.
2006-09-12 23:38:30 · answer #4 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm up in the air about creationism, but not buying evolution. For me, as an agnostic (and a very logical person who likes to deal w/ hard facts), there's just too many holes w/ evolution. As for creationism...I look around me and there is a possibility that there is something greater than a physically solid human being in this universe. Humans are also very complicated beings who are spiritual, mental, emotional as well physical. Evolution answers just the physical aspects of humans for me...and that's far from that middle point where I can buy it happening.
2006-09-12 23:28:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Gen.1:1,2; In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, it existed and it is a witness to self, it had to be billions before earth became a focus.
WAS THERE INHABITANTS
John 17:3,5,24; Job.2:1,2; 38:4-7; Rev.5:11; 22:16 Eze.28:12-14; Isa.14:12-14; Yes.
Day age one to day age four [ 28,000 years ]; Day age five and six [ 13,870 to man and world to 130 years day age six ends ]; Gen.1:3-31; Gen.2:2,4; Heb.4:1-12 ]; Day age seven man and world 6000 ]; Rev.20:1-6 [ 1000 to perfection of earth, world and heavens ];
Billions and 49,000 to perfection of heavens [space ], earth and world.
GOD KEEP IT SIMPLE
Age of world is 6,072 at year 2006 CE.
2006-09-13 00:02:52 · answer #6 · answered by jeni 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I believe in a mixture of both. Since Time is a man made thing and there was no such thing as a 24 hour day until we invented it. And since there was no day or night until they were separarted. who is to say back when God was creating the world how long a day was? It would be a thoudsand years long....
More than enough time for God to give the spark of life as the first critter climbed out of the primordial ooze...
2006-09-12 23:25:45 · answer #7 · answered by justmeinNC 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You're expecting sane and reasonable explanations from the kind of people who pick usernames like "Slave to JC"?
2006-09-12 23:41:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sane reasonable people already know that God has created all that has been created and is still in the process of expanding it. some unreasonable,ignorant people call this process evolution. Evolution proves that God is alive and hard at work.
2006-09-12 23:38:27 · answer #9 · answered by Weldon 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Listen, just because you don't believe the earth was created three weeks ago doesn't mean it didn't happen. And you can take all that fossil evidence and them old stones, and that continental drift and the Cambrian Explosion and just tell it to the MARINES. OKAY!
2006-09-12 23:24:34 · answer #10 · answered by corpuscollossus 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋