ok where does it say in the bible that the earth isn't millions of years old? Where does it say in the bible that there isn't extra terrestrial life? I believe that science and the bible tie together more than people think. but please answer my two questions?
2007-08-10 17:20:28 · 11 answers · asked by clever_username 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the age of the earth (less than 6000 years) was calculated by counting through the events of the bible.
More than you care to know:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_date.htm
The bible doesn't mention extraterrestrial life, of course, since those who wrote it didn't even know other planets existed.
2007-08-10 17:29:09 · answer #1 · answered by Dreamstuff Entity 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bible says nothing about either subject you mention...... with all the UFO stuff I have heard, read, seen over the years, I have read carefuly through the Bible and have found no information saying either way about how old or young the earth is or if there is other life out there...... I am doing a Bible study right now, and the person I am studying, his work of course, says the Bible hints at exsistance BEFORE Adam and Eve........ because the Bible uses words that hint at resoration and not TOTAL exact creation........ I never doubted that science and the Bible can agree on some things and in many ways..... God bless
2007-08-11 00:32:41 · answer #2 · answered by Annie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1.) Genesis 1 2.) nowhere
The bible has the entire genealogy from Adam to Noah to David to Jesus. It's easy to calculate that the universe is roughly 6,000 years old. To assume otherwise based on inconclusive evidence would be a mistake.
It's just as possible that aliens exist as it is possible that they don't. Taking a position either way is a mistake.
Science proves the bible. At a time when everyone thought the world was flat or the back of an animal, Job said it was a sphere that hung on nothing.
Question for you: What makes you a total Christian?
Works? Wrong answer.
Faith and Grace? Correct answer.
2007-08-11 00:35:04 · answer #3 · answered by wassupmang 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're correct. It doesn't say any of that anywhere in the Bible and like the first answerer said, the Bible doesn't support those things either. That's why feuding about these issues is pointless. It's just two different ways of looking at your faith or at the universe. I don't think God supports one view or the other. God knows how old the universe is and whether there is extraterrestrial life. He didn't think it was important for us to know the answer to these or he would have told us very plainly.
2007-08-11 00:29:35 · answer #4 · answered by William D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes people take the Bible too literally. Most of it is euphanisms, and Gods way of teaching us the right way. Just because it doesn't say anything about those two subjects does not mean that they don't exist. They also didn't mention anything about mathmatical equations and how to solve them, but that doesn't mean that they cant be solved. Also, the Bible doesn't mention anything about America, ever! But America exists none the same.
2007-08-11 09:49:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't, and it doesn't. People simply count the generations from Adam to Jesus, and estimate the amount of time that passed between them.
However...I wonder sometimes how much time REALLY passed between the time that Adam was created, and when the Fall happened. The Bible isn't clear on this. Perhaps this is intentional.
2007-08-11 00:26:57 · answer #6 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bible makes no mention of extraterrestrial life, which hardly matters as we don't know of any, or whether there is any. But, if you believe the biblical accounts of creation and descent to be literally true, then you would accept James Ussher's chronology, which has creation happening in 4004 BC. Which, of course, we know to be somewhat in error. But what's four billion years, here or there?
2007-08-11 00:30:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Proverbs 8:26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Ever read the meaning of the word DUST in that verse?
2007-08-11 00:26:26 · answer #8 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come off it - you know the Bible says nothing about those two things. The Bible is not a scientific treatise and was never meant to be. It is about God revealing himself to us.
2007-08-11 00:27:09 · answer #9 · answered by cheir 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no such scripture, but true science was created by God~everything there is, He is made of that, air and water and fire and electricity
and our substance is water and earth etc: everything the earth and sea is made of and air
He made everything and He gave man the intelligence to make things out of what He made, using what already is;
the atom bomb, nuclear etc: is made from elements that were created and already exist
as far as extra terrestial beings that's a lot of hogwash~ the sightings of spaceships etc:(my daughter and I have seen one) are government projects that are pretty much secret
2007-08-11 00:36:07 · answer #10 · answered by sego lily 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋