If you believe in the seven day creation story, what do you think of the idea that chlorophyll cells became plants because of the intense UV rays and thats where life began on Earth? What are Christian fundamentalists views on all creation related science?
2006-11-29 06:51:22 · 14 answers · asked by The Klaxons 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Personally, I dont believe the Bible was literal in its 7 day creation story. The Bible repeats over and over Gods time is not like ours. I believe God created it all, and with his great power, sis it in whatever way he say fit, and that science is NOT wrong, it is actually accurate, and I accept it as fact. I also accept I cant possibly understand the power of God, and he did it the way he did for a reason. To me, science does not dispute creation, and creation does not negate science.
On the other hand, Im not a fundie.
2006-11-29 06:55:28 · answer #1 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Watch the black and white movie, "Inherit the Wind" with Spencer Tracy. My personally favorite movie. It's about the Scopes Monkey trials in the deep south. A teacher presented Darwin's Theory of Evolution to a public school instead of teaching the biblical story and he was arrested and put on trial, this is a true story.
I am not Christian and do not believe in the 7 days of creation. There is a tour at the museum of natural history in NY called, "Biblically Correct". Christian fundamentalists and many others believe all species were created within the 7 days, so humans walked the earth with dinosaurs and various other life that no longer exists. Fundamentalist Christians do not believe in these scientific facts. However, as you'll see in "Inherit the Wind" Henry Drummand asked Matthew Harrison Brady about the creation 7 day thing. He asked something like, "Were the days 24 hours? If there was no suns raise how do you know how long the day is? Could it be a day of indeterminate length which would be equal to millions of years?" It goes on. Great movie and an eye opener of how closed many peoples eyes are to science and the world. Fanaticism and ignorance are forever busy and need feeding.
2006-11-29 07:08:16 · answer #2 · answered by 26433_ED 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do not deny science, wee deny evolution, which is not scientific. God created all. I do dispute that each day of creation was only 24 hours long because time did not exist on the first dy of creation. Time actually did not begin until the fall of man. Time is a curse of man's sin because itwas after the fall that death entered into the world. Prior to the appearance of death there was no need for time.
I have no problem with science, the persuit of it nor the advances that it makes. when it is used to take the place of God's word, however, it is at that point that science is abused. God is the creator of all and he sustains all. Life can not create life and life cannot sustain itself. If life could create life, then there would have been a steady decline until no life would have been left OR if life could sustain life then there would be no death in the world.
2006-11-29 07:23:38 · answer #3 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem is they don't have a scientific beginning of life for us to have an opinion on. They just say there was a big bang and all of a sudden life appeared. How are we supposed to think scientifically about that? I think all athiests should be given a glass bottle with nothing in it, to set on their laps in hell, and when all of a sudden life appears in it, then they can come into heaven.
By the way, where does this chlorophyll scientifically come from, and the UV rays? When science can begin life from nothing then we can form an opinion on it.
2006-11-29 07:10:41 · answer #4 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What are Christian Fundamentalists?????
Most true Christians I know do not oppose scientific theories.
Remember UV rays, chlorophyll cells, and other recently scientific discoveries were always there; it was not an invention by Science.
2006-11-29 06:58:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the chlorophyll cell is an infinitely complex piece of biological equipment. Science has not been able to produce an amino acid by chance from primordial goo let alone an entire cell. I think that if you look at evolution theory objectively you will find it false. Look I am not saying then embrace creationism. At this point I won't even offer an alternative. Just look at it.
2006-11-29 07:01:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK this is not a popular belief among Christians but it is plausible. in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. never specifies a time period. then he created day and night on the first day of creation. who is to say these days were 24 hour periods a day can be anything to God it could simply mean, like when old people say back in my day they don't mean a 24 hour period. as for the bible not being scientific it explains the water cycle and thousands of years before Columbus it describes the circle of the the that hangs upon nothing.
2006-11-29 07:04:26 · answer #7 · answered by Janos 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world was created in 7 literal days. Seven literal 24 hour days. God did it just like He said He did. There is PLENTY of science to back that up, from Creation Science Institute among others. There are literally 1000's of scientists who support the literal Genesis account. Dr. Dino is another one. Check 'em out.
2006-11-29 07:04:32 · answer #8 · answered by higherground_pastor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It concerns for the continuation of life. Or that's a controversy of life vs demise. I ask you to be as impartial as you probable will be once you concentrate on those 2 international perspectives. One comes from the view element of there being a author. It says that each and every one life has cost and purpose and that the author is the single which provides each and every element all creation needs to proceed and that he's the purely one worth of praise because he made each and every element and it became made for his purpose. Now comes the different international view. It says that by a few unintentional prevalence life initiate and by a gadget of purely the reliable live to inform the tale life has reached the point it has come to on earth and that if we do not locate away to reduce the human inhabitants by billions(genocide/homicide/wealthy over the undesirable) lets set up a gadget of elite human beings to pick who lives and who dies. properly i'm hoping that you get the point.
2016-11-29 22:39:15 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe Genesis was about the creation of man. Not about the scientific creation of earth. If Genesis was about the scientific creation of the earth it would have went into much more detail.
2006-11-29 06:55:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋