Christians, can you explain this hypocrisy?

Question

Christians are ignorant hypocrites. Consider the following as an example;

Petrol = Fossil Fuel = Product of Millions of Years of pressure, heat & organic matter

Christian View = Earth 6,000 years old. Give or Take = Petrol is a lie. Possibly devil work.

Can you not see you are having the wool pulled over your eyes?

tsoko_nut

Em, the clue is in the name. Fossil. Fossilised. Although you may have a point, it may take about 5,000 years actually. I can feel your brainwashing powers coming over me like a tsunami. You obviously have a science doctorate that proves me wrong.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

MMmm milions of years? Why do you care, why does it matter. Please allow Christians to believe as they wish. It does not hurt you. This desire for everyone to think and believe the same is the root of all our problems. It doesn't actually affect anyone or anything if some Christians believe this or that. The argument is even more pointless when you consider that time is an abstract concept (we made it up) which stretches between a past and a future which have no reality outside our own minds. Your penultimate point is interesting and not something I had thought about before. Although I am not a Christian and don't think petrol is the devils work - it is a fairly bad substance that has caused lots of pollution, war, strife, greed etc. Maybe there's something in that Devil idea - after all W is heavily involved with oil.

Answer 3

It is ridiculous to suggest that the earth is only 6,000 years old. The Bible does not teach that. The Bible has never taught that. I am a Christian and I do NOT believe - nor do I teach anyone - that the earth is 6,000 years old.

While it is true that some "creationists" teach that earth is 6,000 years old and that the creative days were 24 hour periods, the scriptures do not. Geologists estimate the earth's age at 4 billion years and astronomers estimate the age of the universe at 15 billion years. Neither these estimates nor their potential future refinements contradicts the Genesis account where we find the powerful statement: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

There is no mention of age there. It is with verse 2 that the Bible begins the description of the preparation of earth for habitation: not the creation of earth. Science does not disprove the Bible.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 4

Although I -do- think that the earth is 4.5 billion years old, and I think carbon dating works quite well and I accept the science of evolution, I am not convinced that petroleum oils are produced from ancient biomass - the so called "fossil" fuel theory isn't really very convincing.

If it was true how does one explain the existence of such organic molecules in comets in space?

The idea that petroleum is produced from organic molecules is fine -- experiments have shown that heat and pressure will convert hydrogen peroxide and carbon monoxide into methane in the presence of magnetite as a catalyst and taking it further to allow synthesis with other compounds we can produce oil.

Heat and pressure and correct catalysts and enough time to work on the basic molecules of hydrogen carbon oxygen and nitrogen seem to be all that is required - so assuming that such molecules were deposits of tons of dead organisms seems speculative - rather than science. Why this is still taught in geology is perplexing - it doesn't seem to fit well with the observations of geology. In fact for all we know oil may very well result from an entirely different source that owes nothing to extinct biomass, but saying that is not popular - since it might mean that oil is not such a precious or rare commodity - and we have built our economy on that premise. Ironically this makes many scientists quite hypocritical - since they accept a theory invented in the 1850'sto explain oil deposits that is poorly supported by observations only because it is in their interests economically - not scientifically.

While I have met some Christians who are hypocrites as you describe and who subscribe to the 'young earth' idea without consideration of the implications -- I have also met those, for who m this is an acceptable ideology and yet they are entirely self-consistent and not hypocrites. Although this second group believe that the world was created around 6000 years ago, they also explain that god is omnipotent, and could therefore have created the world complete with billions of years of developmental history.

I cannot fault them logically. This is actually consistent belief - which does not invalidate our understanding of the process - It just means that god's "omnipotence" includes god having the equivalent of a fast-forward button on his "remote"...

Personally as someone who worships no gods I find the idea a bit over the top - and I think that the simplest explanation is most likely true, but I do give them credit for being entirely consistent and logical.

Answer 5

I must admit that there are christian hypocrites and some are unlearned - but not in the matter of science - everybody knows that the earth is more than 6000 years old! Considering the first creation of the earth, it is listed in the dateless past, however the re-creation could possibly falls on this assumption. Petrol is certainly not the works of the devil, christian knows that and whoever says that statement is guilty of a lie.

Answer 6

Not to split hairs but petrol may not be a "fossil" fuel. Some geologists believe that petroleum is a natural occurring hydrocarbon formed in the earth without any fossilized material.

Consider that it rains liquid methane (natural gas) on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and nobody calls it a fossil.

More to the point: Young Earth believers don't say petroleum is devil work. They simply spin the facts to fit their dogmatic scenario of a 6000 year old planet even though it's scientifically unsupportable. It's a lot like how the Bush Administration spins the facts to pretend that their mad war in Iraq is about terrorism even though everybody knows it about "fossil" fuel.

Answer 7

They can not, petrol and fossils are outside the sphere of their knowledge, in that they were omitted from the bible. So was the small detail that their book was written by the descendants of middle-eastern shepherds living in the backwater of civilisation, who had no idea about the inventions of their own age, let alone ours.

thus they dismiss them as being another of 'god's creation if they deem them to be beneficial, or the work of the 'devil' if they deem them to be a threat!

most Christians after 200 years of fossil evidence, have created the argument (sic) that Adam and eve was created 6000 years ago, but that the earth was created in the five days earlier, and we cannot know the length of one of gods days!

What they have a real problem with is the remains of the oldest human which are 195,000 years old - found at Herto, Ethiopia - Omo I and II.

Answer 8

I think you might benefit from taking a look at some of the latest research being done on fossilisation rates.

There is evidence from old mines and the like that fossilisation can take place in as little as 250 years, given the right circumstances.

Answer 9

Which Christians believe that the Earth is only 6000 years old? I was brought up in a strict religious Christian family and have since investigated other religions and never heard that theory. Are you talking about the Creationists who believe the Bible story of the Earth's creation to be literal fact ( ie. the Earth really was created in 6 days that were each 24 hours long? )

Answer 10

the placement is guy's hypocrisy, and not in any respect God's. you're claiming right here that justice for crimes dedicated is actual an injustice. you're also misinterpreting "kill" in the context of the ten commandments. that is the "unlawful" taking of yet another's existence with out due technique of regulation. If someone murdered your spouse and children, and God did not require a punishment for this, or if a decide brushed off the assassin because the decide examine what you wrote right here, i'm efficient you'll not be a hypocrite and ***** about it. .

Answer 11

Have you ever considered that the theory of 'Carbon Dating' was a lie? I've heard a very convincing talk form an English Professor who lectures in Australia. He comes over to England for Vacations.