She said that her pastor told here that petrified wood is not real because nothing is over 6000 years old and that dinosaur bones are really just rock formation that man put in the ground thousands of years ago. Do ALL christians think like that? If so, how can they believe such stupidity ? and is it ethical for a preacher to tell people those things when they are a student?
2006-11-20 13:21:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have a whole box of petrified wood I bought in Arizona outside the Petrified Forest National Park (it's legal). If it's not real, I'd like to know what it is. Not all Christians believe like this. The problem is, too many people simply listen to a preacher and refuse to think for themselves.
2006-11-20 13:24:30 · answer #1 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It would be much better if the Pastor told his people (esp. school-age children) that the Bible indicates an age of aboug 6,000 years for the Earth (and for the Universe) BUT ALSO to explain that there are sincere people who believe that theUniverse is, really, much older. Also, that petrified wood and dinosaur fossils can be very real but that the dating by scientists may be based on faulty pesumptions.
Perhaps the Pastor shold read that about the Age of the Universe and that it might be possible that the Biblical age and the scientific age just might both be right.
http://aish.com/societywork/sciencenature/Age_of_the_Universe.asp
2006-11-20 13:37:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple. The 6 days of creation were not 24 hour days. I can prove that even with the bible. A day of a 24 hour rotation was not even made until the fourth day. This verse begins the fourth day of creation. Gen 1:14 "Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;" So that proves the first 3 days were not 24 hour days. The Apostle Peter says,"A day is as a 1000 years to the Lord". So put all that together and there is the story of the beautiful system of evolution beginning it's process. Somehow the dinasaurs were part of that process. Adam and Eve were not the first created homo sapiens. They were the first humans that had a soul, an awareness of God and of right and wrong. Hence God says on the 6th day, "Let us make man in our image," because in that "day" (1000's of years?) man evolved to be the only animal to be like God knowing good from evil.
2016-05-22 03:09:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian, and I disagree with some others about this. In my view there is proof of the age of the Earth, and Dinosaurs and it's ok... and it does not disagree with God or lessen him any.
I think it comes from the world created "in 7 days" taken literally - but the language is figurative, and that's ok. The Bible also says "A day is like a thousand years" to God.
The 7 days to God are not our seven days -
2006-11-20 13:27:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
... yes. Man was smart enough to put rock formations that look EXACTLY like bones. And fit together into bigger creatures *facepalm*
The idiocity that is believed is quite... unbelievable. I can accept that people don't believe in evolution but. Made by men? Seriously? That is rediculous. Why would men make bones when they were just barely surviving, where ever would they find time to do that? What was it made of? *facepalm*
2006-11-20 13:26:18 · answer #5 · answered by spirenteh 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope. He should have more common sense. He does not have to believe in evolutionism to reconcile petrified wood and God creating the world. Don't listen to people that tell you all Christians think that way.
2006-11-20 13:27:39 · answer #6 · answered by The GMC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you serious? Of course all Christians don't believe that, in fact I've never even heard any Christian that I personally know say something like that. I only see this weird stuff on Yahoo Answers.
2006-11-20 13:35:09 · answer #7 · answered by ICUD 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well than that girl isn't really a christian, for in the book of Job, it describes large reptile-like creatures (dinosaurs). it describes that they were as big as the tallest trees. which proves even more (like the bones) that dinosaurs existed.
2006-11-20 13:26:00 · answer #8 · answered by Luna Winter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This person is a clear example of brainwashing and narrow mindedness of the Christian kind. Not to mention total ignorance of what is in front of your eyes!
2006-11-20 13:49:57 · answer #9 · answered by Janine E 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not all christians are quite that stupid. But then again, quite a few are.
IMO, it is unethical to teach such ignorance.
2006-11-20 13:29:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋