I haven't done research on these things, but is there a young-earth Creationist answer to the millions of years it would take to create certain features of the earth?
((I'm not trying to pass any kind of judgments, just curious))
2007-03-20 16:53:59 · 15 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thanks for a great question! From one Christian's perspective, here's a possible answer for you:
I am one who believes in my God being all present (Greek: omni-present), all powerful (omni-potent), and all knowing (omni-scient); I also believe God created all things (Gen. 1:1).
If my God is truly all powerful and all knowing, I know it's possible for Him to do anything- even merely "speak" and create everything in that utterance.
As for oil, coal, and diamonds, I'd definately be considered a young-earth Creationist in this regard (the Earth is approximately 6,000-8,000 years old). I'd say that my God is powerful enough to create everything in the words recorded in Genesis without needing the aid of "evolutionary processes". God is the creator of the science of the Bible, not the other way around. If he chose to use "evolution" as a method to create things so be it; I just am not of that opinion. I know God is far too incomprehensable for me to understand everything about.
Hope you find the answers you're looking for! If I can be of any further assistance, don't hesitate to contact me at zacneefe@yahoo.com.
~If you seek it, you'll find it.~ Matthew 7:7 paraphrased in regards to seeking after faith.
Sincerely,
lifeguardzac
2007-03-20 17:09:29 · answer #1 · answered by lifeguardzac 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most were created during/after the flood (from the vast amounts of plants and animals that were destroyed then). It doesn't take time; it takes heat and pressure. With the movement of vast amounts of water, vast masses of organic material, and land (earthquakes, volcanoes, probably mass movements of the tectonic plates), the organic material could get buried quickly and be converted to those substances in a short amount of time. Scientists can make them in labs, but it's not cost-effective to make them commercially.
Except for oil; there is a plant in Missouri that takes waste from a slaughterhouse, I think, and turns it into oil. I don't remember the break-even point, but it is cost effective with oil prices where they are now. I don't know why we don't hear more about it, but I did find it on the internet.
2007-03-20 17:04:04 · answer #2 · answered by Maryfrances 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As the creative days in Genesis were not literal days of 24 hours, but time periods spanning possibly many thousands of years each, the earth itself is much older than mankind. This designation of "day" for an undetermined period of time is common in the ancient Hebrew and found elsewhere in the Bible.
2007-03-20 17:01:18 · answer #3 · answered by shibboleth839505 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer is that God created oil, coal and diamonds when he created the Earth.
2007-03-20 16:59:22 · answer #4 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why do you think that it took millions of years to create those things? It is only if you accept evolution that you would believe that, if not what proof is there that it took that long? How do you know that those things could not have been produced in a few thousands of years rather than a few millon? Science has no proof of that, they only say it because it matches what they are trying to prove.
2007-03-20 17:01:40 · answer #5 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jack T. Chick tried to give a response to that in his ridiculous cartoon tract, BIG DADDY. I saw it when I was a sophomore in High School back in the early 70s. I looked it up on his web site and that part is no longer in it. I guess that someone showed him how ridiculous it was. Too bad he didn't get rid of the entire tract.
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2007-03-20 17:02:37 · answer #6 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well, at least according to Mormons, we believe that it infact did take millions of years for the earth to be made as the 7 "days" refered to in Genesis are more so time periods because the word day in Hebrew is closer to simply a period of time than 24 hours.
2007-03-20 16:59:09 · answer #7 · answered by Tony G 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
well it could be said that the features and the state of the earth were created at once as-is ... or the earth could be much older than the present creation and there could have been previous ecosystems created on earth before ours ... and i dont think that contradicts scripture ...
2007-03-20 17:00:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, as a matter of fact. I watched a show on Diamonds on the Discovery channel a few months ago. They were interviewing a scientist and he said -
Now we know it took millions and millions of years to make this diamond you see before you (he held up a diamond) BUT, (and then he held up another diamond) we can now make one in the lab in just a few hours and you can hardly tell them apart!
Well, DUH...I thought. Who's to say it had to take millions of years again?
Here's a cookie, mint chocolate chip, and warm glass of milk.
2007-03-20 16:58:33 · answer #9 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't really care how old the earth is, God still created it.
Did you know you could build a house with old wood?
2007-03-20 16:59:46 · answer #10 · answered by supertop 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋