Aren't there skeletal remains of neenderthal skeletons? Carbon dating states that the word has been around for 4.6 billion years. Ever hear of primordial elements? Those are elements on earth right now that existed in the Universe before the earth was formed. How do you explain how we can see light 1 billion light years away? That takes 1 billion years to reach earth. I'm not atheist by the way, I'm Catholic.
2007-12-25 09:52:34 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How can you not believe in a first man and first woman?
I frankly could care less how God caused everything to come into existance.
Evolutionists have no answer for the first question. How did everthing get started in the first place. And to say that somehow something came from absolute nothing and that that something eventually decided to become the human race is just ludicrious.
Furthur, carbon dating is not accurate. Secondly, there has not been found even a single fossil linking two different species together.
The Bible says that God created light before he created the stars (which makes sense if he actually wanted us to see the stars.) Light was created on the first "day." The sun was not created until day 4.
I could care less whether the Genesis creation account is allegorical or a step by step of what happened. What I do care is that scientists have theories that are being pushed as absolute fact when in fact they are but theories and no other theories are allowed to be considered.
2007-12-25 10:17:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are Catholic and Christian, then why don't you believe God. God says He literally created it all in 6 days.
Carbon dating nor any other kind of dating can date 4.6 billion years. Man's joke on man is getting man to believe this.
God said He stretched the heavens out like a curtain. Anything that stretches can come back to a given point quickly.
God is light so are you seeing God 1 billion light years away?
God is outside of our time.
God knows these answers my friend, but you and your scientists do not. Faith is taking God at His word and I believe God and not man.
Neanderthal skeletons had to live after Adam and Eve because Adam brought sin and death into the world. Neanderthal and the dinosaurs walked with man because before Adam there was not death in the world.
How do you know it takes one billion years to reach earth? Have you made the journey?
How do you know those elements existed in the universe before the earth was formed?
There is a halo in granite that can only be produced quickly.
I know you meant "world" but you said "word" has been around for 4.6 billion years. If you are talking about the Word meaning God then I'm inclined to agree because He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last and God being around that long is very possible, but not the earth.
2007-12-25 10:11:08 · answer #2 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To my understanding (and I'm no scientist), carbon dating doesn't take into account a world-wide flood. The pressure caused by the earth almost literally turning inside out would make quite a difference.
Light 1 billion light years away? Why would this be strange? The universe existed before earth existed.
2007-12-25 10:01:26 · answer #3 · answered by Birdie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story of Adam and Eve, as recorded in Genesis, does not state that the earth is only a few thousand years old. What it does say is "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," but it doesn't state when "in the beginning" was. So it may well have been billions of years ago.
Just because there are remains of Neanderthal in the fossil record, that does not prove that we homo sapiens descended from Neanderthal.
Actually, there is a paucity of transitional forms in the fossil record. Evolutionists know this, and have no explanation for it.
2007-12-25 10:10:56 · answer #4 · answered by David S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can believe in Adam and Eve because...
1. Jesus quotes from their account in the book of Genesis
Matthew 19:4 He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh'? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."
2. There are a variety of ways to understand Genesis chapter one
http://www.christianity.co.nz/science7.htm
What does Genesis 1 really teach? The debate between Christianity and science concerns not just the scientific facts, but how they fit in with the teaching of the Bible, particularly with Genesis 1. So let's explore that. I am aware of seven different ways in which Genesis 1 is interpreted...
Scenario 1 - Recent Creationism...
Scenario 2 - Creation, then chaos, then re-creation ...
Scenario 3 - Stages of creation revealed in six days ...Wiseman’s basic argument is that the six days do indeed represent days of 24 hours, but they are not days in which God created the universe, but days in which he revealed truths of his creation to an individual at the dawn of history over a period of six days.
We now know a great deal about ancient writing in Assyria, Babylonia, Ur and Egypt. There are over a quarter of a million cuneiform tablets now scattered in museums around the world, going back to 3,500 B. C. They deal with mundane issues of personal, family, and business matters and well as issues of state. Wiseman gives impressive evidence to show how the whole structure of Genesis fits so well with the way tablets were written in ancient times, tablets that could well have been handed down through several generations. Moses would have been in an ideal position to edit these.
Evidence he assembles to support the view that Genesis describes six days over which God revealed these truths rather...
3. Scientists have been in agreement about things being factual in the past only to find out some decades or centuries later that they were totally wrong because there was an area of information they were lacking of which they were completely ignorant of the existence of.
Their conclusions at the time made sense and seemed logical and to many infallible, but out of the blue a new discovery in a related or different field suddenly made their "rock solid" conclusions about a matter seem foolish and later scientists just shake their heads and smile when asked about what previous scientists once believed was certainly true.
2007-12-25 10:12:15 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve are the first to be created male nad female HUMAN beings....but ..when God first created the earth...he created creatures that we know as dinosaurs...and all the creatures created then were of the first creation before Adam and Eve....In Genesis it says ...in the beginning God created the heavens and earth...
2007-12-25 10:09:05
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I don't see the conflict between the bible and the theory of evolution provided we do not try and elevate that theory to the status of a religion by including statements about direction, meaning etc.
The story of the bible is a wonderful love story - the love of God for the world. It is also the story of how God brings men and women to understand his/her purposes.
The first few chapters of Genesis are the prologue which explain in a series of metaphors that creation is good and what a mess mankind makes when they separate themselves from God.
2007-12-25 10:09:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
how a lot of you believers and non-believers truthfully have faith that each thing God did in this Earth could desire to be defined in some chapters of the Bible. the tale basically tells of the 1st people no longer the only people God introduced into being. in the event that they have been the 1st AND basically people then i could say that the clarification they have been able to offer properly-formed generations besides as distinctive races grow to be because of the fact they have been created to realize this by applying God. interior the top it quite is not proper, we are right here, we are what we are and you the two have faith or you do no longer.
2016-10-09 04:14:58 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see the connection between the Universe and Adam and Eve.
The Bible says they were the first humans, created by God.
Seeing you are Catholic makes your question more sensible now. Catholics pick and choose (if any) parts to believe and follow.
2007-12-25 09:59:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
there are billions of years between gen 1 and 2. Why CAN'T Adam and Eve have lived 6000 years ago? And who knows WHEN God gave man an immortal soul?
2007-12-25 09:59:11 · answer #10 · answered by Michelle C 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋