Answer for the band if you want, but I mean the Bible story.
2007-08-03 06:57:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes
2007-08-03 07:00:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Oh, would someone please stop the world I want to get off!
The word "Genesis" in Hebrew : בְּרֵאשִׁית ( "in the beginning") or in Greek: Γένεσις, (birth, creation, cause, beginning, source or origin).
As for the word "theory", it comes from Latin and Greek "theoria"; Latin it is 'doctrine or practices' and the Greek understanding is "a set of propositions and principles that are still conjectural". Later used in the form of "theater" or place where a writer's works are performed. Then it became known as "theory", but not in the context it is used today.
In the Hebrew and Greek languages words and actions go together. I am sure you have heard someone say "it works in theory", well this is where that came from. Once the action of the word was taken away, it does not "work".
The Hebrew word "thorah" or Torah, means "teaching and instruction", which means nothing if it is not put into action or practice.
2007-08-03 07:27:03 · answer #2 · answered by yahweh_is_the_lord 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. If it were factual, it would be a history, not a theory; a theory is a description of how something is supposed to work. To qualify as a scientific theory, it has to be refutable -- there must be some means of showing that it predicts a result that does not obtain. Genesis lists many results that do not obtain, but it predicts nothing.
2007-08-03 07:22:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and then it would be subjected to review to see if there was any proof for it happening. In science, theories are published (after being tested, researched, data obtained and analyzed) and then others test, review and try to replicate the results.
As a theory, Genesis has very little supporting evidence other than locations of cities and towns. This is not overwhelming proof as most fiction books also contain accurate references to towns, people and events.
2007-08-03 07:10:41 · answer #4 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not in scientific terms. For science to accept a concept as a theory there must be observable evidence to support the theory. Genesis offers none.
2007-08-03 07:05:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that there was an unspecified period of time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. Could have been billions of years. I take it that the following occurred after Genesis 1:2.
A mass extinction of species occurred during the Pleistocene - Holecene boundary approximately 12,000 years ago.
At this point God could have intervened. What we have in Genesis is not the creation of the earth, but the restoration of the earth. God intervened in the evolutionary processes and created the modern animals "after their kind," that is genetically after the DNA structure of prehistoric animals.
The same happened for modern man. God intervened in the evolutionary processes and created modern man "after their kind," that is genetically after the DNA structure of prehistoric man. Modern man was created additionaly in the "image of God," that is with God's spiritual nature.
2007-08-03 07:13:05 · answer #6 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theory:
1.A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
2.The branch of a science or art consisting of its explanatory statements, accepted principles, and methods of analysis, as opposed to practice: a fine musician who had never studied theory.
3.A set of theorems that constitute a systematic view of a branch of mathematics.
4.Abstract reasoning; speculation: a decision based on experience rather than theory.
5.A belief or principle that guides action or assists comprehension or judgment: staked out the house on the theory that criminals usually return to the scene of the crime.
6.An assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a conjecture.
If you follow #6 then probably, yea.
2007-08-03 07:01:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only until it happens.
(If time is cyclic as has been proposed, the end will be followed by the beginning...again)
No scientific evidence? What about the "big bang?" Is that a theory?
2007-08-03 07:04:13 · answer #8 · answered by Amon Ra 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, Genesis means "The beginning", so I have no idea where you are going with this theory thing.
2007-08-03 07:01:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1) The band was terrible.
2) Not even close. There is no positivistic evidence supporting it. Absolutely none.
2007-08-03 07:00:58 · answer #10 · answered by chlaxman17 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. A scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory. What testing has been done?
2007-08-03 07:00:56 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋