Cant they see that their denial of this very well documented fact discredits their whole argument when it come to creationism against darwinism.They just seem to ignore scientific discovery because they can not disprove it.
2006-10-20 01:43:57 · 26 answers · asked by ??? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The fear that evolution will displace religion is so great. Even though Galileo proved that the world is round and the Church still survived, there is always that fear that the Bible could be proved wrong and discarded.
While that is unlikely to happen, the people who have invested their lives and careers in the Bible have a hard time accepting that it might not be exactly right. When you preach that the Bible is perfect and someone shows that to be false than you run the risk of looking like a fool. It is true that you look more foolish by denying the truth, but if you believe that thousands of people are with you in that denial than you think it is just "us against them".
I, on the other hand, believe that God created an evolving Universe. And some day I am sure that the church will preach just that. Remember, the Church no longer preaches that the world is flat, but it used to.
Take care,
Troy
2006-10-20 01:50:58 · answer #1 · answered by tiuliucci 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually, most mainstream Christians don't believe in a young Earth. It is only a small minority that do. Thery just happen to be very loud.
As for Ken Ham: He has a BA in environmental biology, and is not a geologist or astronomer, so any claims he makes about the age of the Earth are well outside his field. He holds an honorary doctrate in literature from Liberty University...which has nothing whatsoever to do with science. He has only a partially educated view of biology, and none whatsoever aboout evolutionary theory, dating techniques, planetology, geology, or any other relevant science.
In other words: He is not a scientist qualified to make any kind of declarations on the age of the Earth.
2006-10-20 08:57:56 · answer #2 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those who really understand the Bible know that it never said the earth is 6,000 years old. The earth could be millions or billions of years old. At Gen. 1:1, it says: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Does that give a clue concerning how old the earth is? No. It merely says that it was created at one point in time. Nothing more.
The misconception of the age of our planet centers around the 6 creative "days" in the first chapter of Genesis. The fact of the matter is that those "days" had nothing to do with the creation of the earth. If you will notice in verse 2, the earth was already in existence BEFORE the first "day" started. So, the creative "days" were vast periods of time that God used to prepare the earth for animal and human habitation. They were not literal 24-hour periods.
2006-10-20 10:21:30 · answer #3 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Almost all Christians do accept the scientific fact of the Earth's age. Even most of those fundamentalist sects who reject the evidence for biological evolution still recognize that the Earth is very old. It is only a few extremist groups that also deny something as clearly demonstrated as the age of the Earth.
2006-10-20 09:03:03 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not all Christians that believe that. Some Christians believe that the world is literally 6000 years old, and they insist that all the scientific evidence is placed there by Satan, to mislead humanity. However, you can be a Christian and believe in some parts of evolution, but others one must reject. Even some accept the big bang theory, as that may be how God created the world.
2006-10-20 08:46:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Oh, the world is actually more than 4 billion years old, it's a scientifically proven fact, hey, and we have fossils of dinosaurs which existed 120 million years ago, how can anybody say that earth is just 6000 years old? Whoever said that, is totally out of his mind.
2006-10-20 08:45:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because St. Denis the Bad Mathemetician puzzled it out with Biblical references and came up with the start date of 4004 BCE
2006-10-20 08:46:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why does it matter if G-d's day was 24 hours, or thousands upon thousands of years long? It is still the same thing. The world and we had to come from someone, someplace----who can say that evolution and time are not G-d given. It is all in G-d's time------not ours.
2006-10-20 09:08:26 · answer #8 · answered by Shossi 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The so-called "well documented fact" that you referred to is hardly that at all. Just because people who have a need to justify their anti-creation viewpoint have constructed an imaginary timeline and called it "science" neither makes it science, or the truth.
Any serious research into the reasons "science" uses to base the conclusions on an earth of millions of years in age will quickly reveal to an open-minded person that those conclusions are based on suppositions, speculations, questionable test methods, and wishful thinking.
People such as yourself, who actually want to believe that the earth is millions of years old, automatically embrace those conclusions as proof positive, because they fit in with your preconceived prejudices and concepts regarding your worldview.
Some Christians have chosen between a literal interpretation of what God has told us in His Book and what so-called "science" has told us in their books. We have simply chosen the more believeable version. God can be trusted, men have their own agenda and will construct, if necessary, any wild story imaginable to support their basic worldview. Atheists have to have a theory of origin - that or be faced with accepting creationism. Atheism has come up with evolutionary theory as an alternative and the millions of years old earth issue is part of that. It's a belief that fits a lifestyle that demands to answer to no one, and desires to eliminate God from all phases of human life.
It has nothing to do with science. It's just paraded under the guise of science.
2006-10-20 08:57:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
How many times is this question going to be asked? I have a feeling that you won't budge an inch on your beliefs on evolution, right? You accuse us of being stubborn when you are just as stubborn. How about this. I'll accept everything about evolution, when you whole-heartedly accept everything about the bible. Never gonna happen now is it.
2006-10-20 08:53:06 · answer #10 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋