Aren't creationists breaking one of the ten commandments when they're lying to themselves about the age of..?

Question

the earth and evolution?

God doesn't like people lying even when you're doing it to yourself.

"How is it that you know the age of the earth? Have you been alive 5 million, billion, kajillion years to prove that it's that old?"

Well you see people study the natural world. These people are called scientists. Some of these scientists are involved in dating the age of the earth like geologists and astronmers. The thousands of geologists and astronomers all say that the earth is 4.5 billion years old.

Stop lying to yourself.

"Evolution is not true. For one thing, it defies the 2nd law of thermodynamics."

You're talking about abiogenesis and it doesn't break the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Please look it in an encyclopedia.

Answer 1

AH...but is lying really lying if they believe it to be truth? I don't think "Thou shalt not be ignorant" is a commandment... unfortunately!

Answer 2

It's a debatable point as there is clearly enough, easily understandable references to show that their claims are fraudulent. This means that they are willfully ignoring the truth which should be considered a lie. I think a more compelling argument that they knowingly lie is large number of out of context and intentionally misconstrued quotes of biologists.

Of course the "London Texas" hammer has been debunked several times but it is still being shown as a proof for a young earth, so that's definitely a lie.

Edit:
Zig, you're showing willful ignorance but just using part of the 2nd law of thermodynamics or rather using the generalized case of it. Also your assertion that DNA is mor complex than a computer program and thus must have an author is baseless espcially since irreducable complexity was never proven as a hypothesis.

Answer 3

No. do you be attentive to that God made a sparkling set for Moses to recent to the people? This looks to show to the reality that He meant precisely what He wrote interior the 1st ones. Exodus 34 the hot Stone pills a million The LORD stated to Moses, "Chisel out 2 stone pills like the 1st ones, and that i will write on them the words that have been on the 1st pills, which you broke.

Answer 4

I am a creationist. The age of the earth can be debatable in the genesis account.

Evolution is not true. For one thing, it defies the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Also, DNA is more sophisticated than a computer program. It organizes matter some how to create life. There has to be an author to the DNA.

Edit: Explanation of entropy on DNA.

All of you know this, but go to the copy machine. Make a copy, take the copy and copy it, take that copy and copy it. After 1000 times or so, the quality has severely degraded.

The same is happening with our collective DNA. As time goes on, information is lost and the information that remains often times becomes corrupted.

Imagine 2 parents. They have 1 child. Half of the dad's DNA does not get passed down. Half of the mom's DNA does not get passed down. If they have 10 kids, probably 1% to 2% of each parents is not passed down. This is information being lost with each generation.

Some of the information that stays gets corrupted, hence the genetic disease that we have among us like mitochondrial disorders and sickle cell anemia.

Mitochondrial disorders would be a better example of the copy of the copy of the copy, because that comes from just one parent.

Animals having 2 parents helps cover up a lot of genetic disorders. I would call that good design.

As time goes to infinity, a species becomes extinct for many reasons, one of them would be genetic disorders taking over the DNA equation.

Concerning intelligent design: If you walk in the woods and see a statue of somebody. Will you think, "Wow, how marvelous the wind and the rain. Look, it eroded this rock into the shape of a person!" No, you will think that someone carved it out.

Edit: Jolly Roger, If you saw a blue print for a house, would you think that someone made it?

Concerning the 2nd law of thermodynamics, I'm talking about entropy. I'm talking about the degradation of our collective DNA over time. Don't give me that crap about the sun giving energy to the earth and that we're not in a closed system. OK, draw a line around the whole solar system. There, that would be a closed system.

The sun gives energy to the earth, like gasoline does to my car. I put gasoline in, and the car can run. If I put gasoline in, my honda civic will not evolve to a porche.

Answer 5

That is not the same as bearing false witness (unless maybe it was in a court of law).

ADD: The one that amazes me, is when they blame the dinosaur bones on Satan. Right... that is just to tempt your, um, faith. Like if their god was all knowing he would let Satan change something that major and call it an attempt to trick everyone.

Answer 6

Sure. Funny-funny :)

Anyway, do you really think the world is perfect? Everyone breaks the Ten Commandments each and every day if they want to admit it or not (even Christians).

Answer 7

i dont know how many of these evangalistic creationists have to be busted molesting little boys before these people will realise they (the evangalists) are just peddling simplistic rubbish to the masses and making a very very nice living out of it as well. they treat scietific papers in the same way they treat the bible,, i am sure if you broke up Lolita the same way ie sentance by sentance,,phrase by phrase you could justify gods approval of pedophiles,, after all he created them at the same time he created dinosours didnt he/it/her/them ?

Answer 8

Me - this Christian, thinks that Christians are breaking the Ten Commandments every day in many ways. Thank God for His grace.

Answer 9

Ah, but creationists truely believe what they say about the age of the earth, so they're not lying, it's ignorance. Or chosen ignorance, which is even worse. =/

Answer 10

The thing is you can't get two of them to agree on a single answer on the subject!