Imagine how big the Bible would be if He went into every minute detail! It would be hard to carry to church every Sunday! LOL
2006-11-02 11:11:03
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answered by lookn2cjc 6
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Why did God create unicellular organisms? Because they are needed for the ecology to function properly.
Why not give minute details? For one, the Bible is long enough as it is. Who would read it if it were several volumes long? Besides, the minute details of the material world can be easily discovered by humans on their own, without God telling us, and it is not relevant to the morality tale of Genesis.
2006-11-02 14:05:48
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answer #2
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answered by Randy G 7
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Now you are asking essential questions.
This gives us a clue as to the true origins of these stories. Like other creation stories from other cultures, Genesis is an attempt by our ancestors to answer the question, "How did we come to be?" Their theories and speculations were naturally limited by their experiences and the limitations of technology. Including simple things like the microscope. Remember that something as simple as germs as a cause of infection wasn't really accepted until late in the 19th century.
Unfortunately, as our knowledge about our world and the universe has grown, some ideas simply have not been abandoned due to custom. Madison Avenue (advertising) research has shown us that people tend to accept most readily messages that reinforce that which they already believe. Many things that we think of as simple facts today were once dismissed as false: that the Earth travels around the Sun; that the Earth is round; blood must be type matched for transfusion, brushing teeth helps prevent cavities.
If you wouldn't trust a first century surgeon with your appendix operation, why would you trust a first century theologian with your faith? They operated in the same world, under the same limitations.
2006-11-02 11:54:49
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answer #3
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answered by Magic One 6
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What proof are there to say that god created adam and eve? Just because here says were written and interpreted from many different language variations, does not mean it ever happened. Everybody should know what happened when a fisherman caught a fish, by the end of the gossip lines, the 1 inch fish became a 100 feet.
2006-11-02 11:15:45
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answer #4
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answered by me_worry? 4
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I'm sure they existed back then but answer me this: How in the hell would anyone from the bible writing era, know anything about unicellular organisms when they were probably just discovered in the late 1800's or something..even if they were revealed to the writers of the bible, nobody would know what to call them or even how to understand what they were seeing.
2006-11-02 11:14:10
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answer #5
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answered by Maximus_2007 3
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no no no. Adam was created AFTER everyonething else was lready created, and eve came right after Adam.
I guess tho its becuase in the time that genisis was written, nothing was known about unicellular organisms or anyhting, The bible is God's word put into human terms. In the time of genisis, that was about a far as it went. If Genesis had been written nowadays, mabye it would have said "God said, let there be Photons" instead of let there be light...
2006-11-02 11:10:49
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answered by Shane 3
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Unicellular organisms can be useful little buggers, but think about what happened when we found them! All of a sudden everyone started using disinfectant and alchohol wipes on EVERYTHING. God probably just wanted to keep a lid on the inner workings of the world so we wouldn't get skeezed out and screw everything up by killing them!
2006-11-02 11:16:00
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answered by Beardog 7
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At the time peoples were not ready to understand everything, in the last 100 or so years has science discovered all of what you are talking about. Here are some of the point even today people do not see clear:
When examining the Genesis account, it is helpful to keep in mind that it approaches matters from the standpoint of people on earth. So it describes events as they would have been seen by human observers had they been present. This can be noted from its treatment of events on the fourth Genesis “day.” There the sun and moon are described as great luminaries in comparison to the stars. Yet many stars are far greater than our sun, and the moon is insignificant in comparison to them. But not to an earthly observer. So, as seen from the earth, the sun appears to be a ‘greater light that rules the day’ and the moon a ‘lesser light that dominates the night.’—Genesis 1:14-18.
The first part of Genesis indicates that the earth could have existed for billions of years before the first Genesis “day,” though it does not say for how long. However, it does describe what earth’s condition was just before that first “day” began: “Now the earth proved to be formless and waste and there was darkness upon the surface of the watery deep; and God’s active force (Holy Spirit) was moving to and fro over the surface of the waters.”—Genesis 1:2
Many consider the word “day” used in Genesis chapter 1 to mean 24 hours. However, in Genesis 1:5 God himself is said to divide day into a smaller period of time, calling just the light portion “day.” In Genesis 2:4 all the creative periods are called one “day”: “This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in the day [all six creative periods] that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.”
Genesis chapter 1 uses the expressions “evening” and “morning” relative to the creative periods. Does this not indicate that they were 24 hours long? Not necessarily. In some places people often refer to a man’s lifetime as his “day.” They speak of “my father’s day” or “in Shakespeare’s day.” They may divide up that lifetime “day,” saying “in the morning [or dawn] of his life” or “in the evening [or twilight] of his life.” So ‘evening and morning’ in Genesis chapter 1 does not limit the meaning to a literal 24 hours.
1 Corinthians 2:14-15 But a physical man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot get to know [them], because they are examined spiritually. 15 However, the spiritual man examines indeed all things, but he himself is not examined by any man.
2006-11-02 11:25:32
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answered by papavero 6
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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).
2006-11-02 11:14:32
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answer #9
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answered by His eyes are like flames 6
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It doesn't go into detail because it's a myth. Believability and detail aren't generally important to myths.
The fact that there are no details of course utterly disqualifies creationism (including "intelligent design") from being considered "sciences" and the fact that there are no creationists working on understanding those details from a creationist perspective demonstrates that those who claim to be "creation scientists" are simply liars.
2006-11-02 11:36:00
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answer #10
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answered by Anonymous
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Well, how did God make all of it? The amoebas and everything all play into how the rest of the animals came into being. I'm sure God needed building blocks to create such an incredible world. mesh intelligent design theory with evolution and creationism, and you have the truth, as I know it. All overlapping and needing a touch of Einstein's relativity theory of course, but it makes perfect sense!
2006-11-02 11:20:49
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answer #11
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answered by Kareen L 3
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