Let them be. If they want to believe that billions of years ago there was a bunch of chaos in the form of a big bang, which somehow became and amoeba in the middle of something that they don’t tell you where it came from, and that amoeba landed in some water and started swimming, and that swimming thing grew bigger and became a fish, or a tadpole or some sort of sea creature, and it decided to sprout legs one day and grow fur and turn into a land animal which eventually turned into an ape which eventually stood up and put on a suit and got a degree from Harvard and became a scientist - let them have at it. Personally, I think they have a lot more faith than we do. Too bad it doesn’t end well for them.
What doesn't end well for who?
The people that disagree with you about how God created the universe?
I expect that those that profess a belief in Christ are redeemed, regardless of what they think about science.
/johnny
Amen, brother or sister. You have given me the strength to move on from this thread.
May I point something out ?
One’s belief in how long the Earth has been around , and how life evolved is irrelevant to one’s faith in the Bible.
I know you both would disagree, but the Bible is about concepts, and getting lost in arguing ‘scientific’ data seems to be a bit hypocritical, if one rejects so called ‘science’.
Does God care if you think it took 6000 years, or 6 days to create the Universe, or (make up any random number) to do this or that?
Or is it his wish that you only appreciate the work?
The Universe we “see” is but a limited interpretation of what our consciousness can perceive. An orderly and persistent illusion that allows us to fulfill some greater purpose we may never understand
Every man, every creature, every object we perceive is a representation of something much greater. Even stranger is how everything is interconnected and “one” at some unimaginable level that our minds can't completely grasp.
Science mainly deals with better understanding the principles and “rules” within this interpretation of reality, not what this reality IS or WHY it is so.
From what I've experienced as an engineer and aspiring philosopher, there is some intelligent governing force above us. Not a “big man in the sky”, but something within EVERYTHING that ties all together. It can't be written down in a book or explained. It can only be “felt” and having a very clear conscience seems to make it easier. And even for the most gifted and noble among us, it seems to be something that our minds can only “feel” very briefly.
“A human being is part of the whole,called by us “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences his thoughts and feeling as something separate from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,restricting us to our personal decisions and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” - Albert Einstein