Why do evolutionists use the age of the earth to support their THEORY?

Question

Just because the earth is billions of years old, doesn't mean that evolution is true. The bible talks about the earth being created in six days. A "day" could be taken to mean alot of things.

Also, if evolution is true, and there is no God, then why can't scientists create life in laboratories. ALL attempts at this have failed.

Why are scientists trying to figure out the mysteries of life when EVERYTHING we really need is in the bible?

Answer 1

The first thing a YEC is asked is, "Do you really believe that the Earth is only 6,000 years old?" There is a superabundance of evidence pointing to an ancient earth, so that once it's established that the earth indeed is quite very very OLD, what was happening during all this time? There is a vast richness in Earth's history, a seemingly never-ending story of rise and fall of continents, oceans, mountains, climates, and a mind-boggling array of life, all in a grand tapestry of interplay. The few verses offered in Genesis about this, by the strength of having so few words and broad interpretability, can be stretched to describe just about anything---including evolution on earth over billions of years. The final frontier for creationists today, based on anything remotely scientific, is to attack the supposedly atheistic premise of the theory of evolution, which is that, "Hey, chance was all that was needed, God is irrelevant". That is the impetus behind Intelligent Design theories, in an effort to make God relevant again. However, anybody who reads the scientific literature pertaining to evolution will not find any reserachers claiming that they're proving that God has had no role. They are simply silent on it, because it's not the business of science to comment about God. Nonetheless, creationists feel persecuted by this silence about God in the published journals of the professional scientific community, and ask questions like, "Why are scientists trying to figure out the mysteries of life when EVERYTHIING we really need is in the bible?" This is a naked call for deliberate ignorance.

Answer 2

Are we here again?

Why, if God has existed forever, did he wait until the last 6000 years to do something?

Scientists cannot create life in the laboratory because life is too complex to create. And they don't have half a billion years to hang around waiting for things to happen.
They have, however, managed to create a few organic molecules, the building blocks for proteins, under certain conditions. Given enough time, who knows, they might create larger molecules.
Everything we need is not in the bible, any more than it is in any other religious book. Is there a cure for Malaria or Tuberculosis in the Bible? They are killing 5 million people per year. Is DNA mentioned in the Bible? How about the Earth orbiting the Sun?

Do you still want to use the Bible as a science book?

Get educated.

Answer 3

The bible account of the formation of earth and life on earth disagrees with observation in every single respect. Even allowing for dubious reinterpretations like "day" really means "large but indeterminate number of years" the bible fails even to produce a logically consistent ordering of events that would agree with what has been observed through experiment.

On this basis, and following your argument directly, there is nothing reliable of value in the bible, and we can readily conclude from experimental evidence that god does not exist (because you rely on the creation account to justify his existence, and this is easily proved wrong).

Scientists have produce precursor cells and amino acids in the lab, so your assertion is wrong. Evolution took 3,500,000,000 years to get from this stage to complex life - so lets just give the lab experiments a little longer before we dismiss them shall we.

Answer 4

It is not the age, but the ages. There is a record of increasing complexity of life in rocks of decreasing age.

The creation of life is not evolution but abiogenesis. Creating life isn't easy. In nature, we know of it happening once. That took hundreds of milions of years in all the volume of the oceans. Fifty years of trying on a few laboratory benches is a drop in the bucket.

If all you need is in the Bible, tell me how you connect to Y!A with the Bible. Or was it that the plans for the computer were in the Bible? If you get sick, will you decline antibiotics because they are not in the Bible? Ignorance is so ugly.

Answer 5

Because everything we really need isn't in the bible.

But the news isn't all bad. Science - yes, even including evolution - does not in any way, shape, or form discount the existence of a God. In fact, it does not rule out any religion or belief system, including Christianity.

Science, by its own admission, isn't perfect - and it never will be. Science doesn't explain everything - nor does it pretend to. Science is open to interpretation and validation, and actively encourages people to question it and modify it.

Religion is a product of faith. Belief is an important part of that faith, but even religion is subject to interpretation.

That includes the bible. It may be a painful realization, but one person's interpretation of truth in the bible is another person's metaphor or story.

In other words, your "truth" is a point of view. Not everybody is going to share it. And to go even a bit deeper, the bible itself is a point of view. Don't be surprised that people have other ideas about what the truth actually is.

Keep your faith, by all means. Just realize that it may not win the world over.

Answer 6

Well, first of all, theologians who have thoroughly studies the bible and added up the ages of Adam, Noah and so on have come up with an exact date of the creation of the Earth, which was 4004 BC. Now scientists know that earth is around 4 billion years old!!! Fossils show that early man (Sp. Australopithicans) is around 6 million years old and that (Sp. Homo) is around 2 million years old. Homo sapiens (us) are around 100,000 years old. So, the numbers don't add up.

Answer 7

evolution is a theory. as in theory: something proven over many years of study and research with all evidence pointing to confirm said theory. are there holes in it? not yet. are there things where not sure on? well duh, thats why its an active area of research.

science says nothign about god. science by it's nature can NOT say anything god. science is the study of the world around us that we can see hear taste touch and smell. the wolrd we can observe and make predictions and observations about. no one has direct evidence either direction on god ergo science can not say anything about god for or against, in fact it shouldnt be anywhere on the raidar of science.
philosophy and religion are the study of the internal world and the worlds of oppinion and spiritual perceptions. they can not be validated OR contracted against in any way shape or form from science.....but they can not also make a judgment call on science either. science is about learning about things. period. end of story. religion and philosophy are about what WE will DO and FEEL about things. period end of story.

you can not say 'god said this so the world is flat' science tells us the world is round (well more egg shaped really =P hehe) and the evidence supports it. though no one can say 'science says your moral choice is wrong stop it' all science can do is show you cause and effect or links in actions. YOU make the choice on what it means to you.

for god sakes use science to make informed moral choices. don't make your morality a beating stick to try and force things in science to look the way you want them to. the earth is still round no matter if you lock him in a cell or not.

Answer 8

Don't you find it at all possible that maybe God is the one who has caused evolution? Maybe God decided that he was unfair to certain creatures, so he changed(evolved) them to help them out.



And actually, scientists have created living cells in a lab just by mixing things together. Just an FIY

Answer 9

Ok, using your own logic, if a "day in the eyes of god is as a thousand years" thing, and relying on the figurative translation of Genesis then why couldn't when god ""created"" man he used evolution?

Answer 10

Gravity is a theory, too. But I'm going to ignore it for the time being.