The Bible says that Adam and Eve, in their fallen state, were driven from Paradise (Eden) to prevent them from living forever by eating of the Tree of Life. Why is that better than continuing the present human race into living indefinitely? Isnt NYC an example of the slow but sure, up and down, degradation of following our own imaginations?
2007-08-13 15:11:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, and maybe.
There are other views which are both Christian and scientific with respect to interpreting Genesis and the creation account. (old earth creationism)
For your consideration:
http://www.reasons.org/
2007-08-13 15:16:08 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 8⤊ 5⤋
How does someone go about dating something that old? Logical it's impossible... You could label it a thousand, million, billion, 100 billion, 200 billion, etc - it wouldn't make a difference. The max date which can be actually be confirmed is only a few thousand years, before it gets wishy washy. The most famous example of an apeman proven to be a combination of ape and human bones is Piltdown man. In 1912, Charles Dawson, a medical doctor and an amateur paleontologist, discovered a mandible (lower jawbone) and part of a skull in a gravel pit near Piltdown, England. The jawbone was apelike, but had teeth that showed wear similar to the human pattern. The skull, on the other hand, was very humanlike. These two specimens were combined to form what was called “Dawn man,” which was calculated to be 500,000 years old. The whole thing turned out to be an elaborate hoax. The skull was indeed human (about 500 years old), while the jaw was that of a modern female orangutan whose teeth had been obviously filed to crudely resemble the human wear pattern. Indeed, the long ape canine tooth was filed down so far that it exposed the pulp chamber, which was then filled in to hide the mischief. It would seem that any competent scientist examining this tooth would have concluded that it was either a hoax or the world’s first root canal! The success of this hoax for over 50 years, in spite of the careful scrutiny of the best authorities in the world, led the human evolutionist Sir Solly Zuckerman to declare: “It is doubtful if there is any science at all in the search for man’s fossil ancestry.” Artistic imagination has been used to illustrate entire “apemen” from nothing more than a single tooth. In the early 1920s, the “apeman” Hesperopithecus (which consisted of a single tooth) was pictured in the London Illustrated News complete with the tooth’s wife, children, domestic animals, and cave! Experts used this tooth, known as “Nebraska man,” as proof for human evolution during the Scopes trial in 1925. In 1927, parts of the skeleton were discovered together with the teeth, and Nebraska man was found to really be an extinct peccary (wild pig)! Seems people will say anything for fame and forture, and people will blindly follow it. Other fossils such as the famous Lucy’s skull is so incomplete that most of it is ‘imagination made of plaster of paris’.Leakey even said in 1983 that no firm conclusion could be drawn about what species Lucy belonged to. Also how did that calculate the age of it? They assumed. There's been other longer legged fossils which are just apes. Cavemen Bones Yield Oldest Modern Human of two cavemen (which still has DNA - so can be more accurately age checked), were discovered at La Brana Aritero site in Leon, Spain, dated age around 7000 years...
2016-05-17 07:04:59 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all about following the rules. If you follow them you will be blessed. If you break them you will be punished (cursed).
The end of time is close at hand and there are indicators that prove that our generation may very well be the one that gets to witness Jesus rapturing the Church home.
If you are not right with the Lord than this prayer is for you....
Dear Heavenly Father, I confess that I have sinned against heaven and in your sight and need forgiveness. Thank you for sending your Son Jesus to die on the cross for my sins, according to the Scriptures, and I thank you for raising Him from the dead. Today I ask Him to come into my heart to cleanse me from my sin and become my Lord and Savior. I give myself to you. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen!
2007-08-21 04:29:53 · answer #3 · answered by D.A. S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as myth can effect humanity ;that's gods plan in human terms . As far as nature in relationship to mankind that's gods plan in the light of human understanding . the earth has been carbon dated scientifically to be much older than fable would have it . 15,000 years is quite ridiculous as several billion is as accurate as the the picture on your tv set or the signal on your cell phone .
2007-08-13 15:47:33 · answer #4 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, He has a plan. Jesus is our Redeemer. God must love us a lot to allow his beloved son to die for us. I don't think I'd be willing to sacrifice anything like that, but especially not one of my kids. How old is Earth? Isn't it something like 4 billion years?
2007-08-21 06:04:31 · answer #5 · answered by alikij 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) You have yet to provide evidence for a god.
2) The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old based on radioactive dating techniques.
2007-08-13 15:16:22 · answer #6 · answered by eri 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Nope. There is no evidence for a god.
But the earth is proven to be billions of years old. And there is evidence for that assertion.
2007-08-13 15:18:28 · answer #7 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
yes
2007-08-13 15:19:44 · answer #8 · answered by romelo 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It took millions of years to produce only 6.1 billion people?
Go figure that one out.
2007-08-13 15:15:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
like Grimm....just a fairy tale.....its nice though because it gives people hope
GL
2007-08-13 15:16:10 · answer #10 · answered by Man of Ideas 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋