I've heard from quite a few young earth creationists an attempt to make both the Bible and scientific forms of dating work together. Basically, God created the earth only a few thousand years ago like the Bible tells us if you do the math, but he created it to look old. He created it with already decayed uranium and potassium. He created the universe with starlight already on its way to Earth, so while the star may seem billions of years old, it's only a few thousand.
This is a blatant form of dishonesty. An attempt to fool people into thinking something different than what is true is lying.
Does this not make God a liar? I thought he was without sin.
2007-12-12 10:16:42 · 21 answers · asked by 雅威的烤面包机 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The fact is... nobody around today was there. One thing both science and the Bible now agree with is that the universe had a beginning, and will have an end. The rest is just timing. But, of course, you are talking about a God that lives outside of time. And the scientists of today are only limited by what they can test inside of time. So the argument is moot.
As for the age of decayed uranium and potassium, science can only measure against a constant. Which constant? Entropy has been proven to effect EVERYTHING. So without a constant, all the math may point to one age, when it is entirely a different age altogether.
Silver - I like that postulation.
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2007-12-12 10:22:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Doesn't make God a liar at all since Religion is a human invention. You have to remember that the Bible was written at multiple points in the Bronze age; well before the Scientific Method was developed. These people in the Bronze age wondered the same types of things that we do now: why are we here, what are those dots in the night sky, what happens to me when I die, how is lightening formed, what is fire, etc. So without a methodology to ask questions and then test scenarios, they resorted to creating myths. Hence, since people wrote these myths down onto paper and not God, then God isn't a liar, but going a little further you have to wonder if the right question to ask is: Does God exist at all since religion was a human invention.
2007-12-12 18:31:45 · answer #2 · answered by TheSkeptic 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible is not "literal"! You can't know when God created the world. Many stories in the Bible are used as a metaphor to describe something not as a literal meaning.
2007-12-12 23:29:05 · answer #3 · answered by bballchica14 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just because God created the world with the appearance of age doesn't make God a liar. If I hand you a ripe banana this doesn't make me a liar because at one point the banana was green. God made the world in such a way to accomdate life. If you show up for a date with your girlfriend, is she a liar if she comes to the door dressed in a nice dress, with make-up and combed hair, and matching shoes, etc. when she could have come to the door with bad breath, sloppy, ill-fitting clothes, and messy hair, without any make-up? Your defination of "right" and "wrong" is wrong.
2007-12-12 18:30:54 · answer #4 · answered by Ann 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
To explain to you where many Believers come from in their thinking is that there is a God that created everything and therefore why would he create humans to understand everything. Of course he would not! What is faith if we KNOW everything? The human mind, while amazing, is not capable of knowing all and wrapping mind and thought around everything there is to know. People have to get over themselves long enough to realize we are mortal beings who exist below higher powers no matter what God you worship!
and, what does your name mean?
2007-12-12 23:32:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. It doesn't make God a liar because it is the Creationists who have misinterpreted the time line of evolution that the God Yahweh is referring to in the beginning of the book of Genesis.
2007-12-12 18:24:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Remember that paper...book, whatever it was, that Galileo wrote, with this character called Simplicio that was his version of the Pope? In it, Simplicio ended up getting stumped, and couldn't argue with the evidence against the geocentric universe anymore, so all he could say was (in reference to the phases of Venus, I think), Well, God could have created the universe one way and made it look another.
The Pope, of course, realized that this was a ridiculous argument, and furthermore realized that Galileo was, through Simplicio, ascribing that argument to HIM, making HIM look like an idiot. He got really mad about that, too...
2007-12-12 18:22:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
not a smart idea to call God a liar. Like pulling on the tiger's tail.
Look, no one knows for sure how creation came about specifically, except God, and he works through faith exercises more than directly giving us information. But, if you look at the beauty and complexity of it all, then you will see there is an "intelligent design", which would imply an intent to life, which directly takes you to a Creator God.
2007-12-12 18:22:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
The world was created Last Thursday.
Yes, this would seem to make God a liar.
2007-12-12 18:26:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
It's a known fact that there are cosmologists who theorize that the speed of light is variable, and that in the beginning light traveled faster than it does now.
That would make everything age much more quickly as a whole, if I understand it correctly, even to the miniscule level that I may.
2007-12-12 18:33:08 · answer #10 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋