Posted on 11/26/2012 3:30:07 PM PST by Kaslin
The left is made of nothing but illogical faith
The correct answer to such an obvious set-up question is, “The age of the Earth has no bearing on taking care of serious problems that face our nation and the world. Next question.”
Even scientists don’t KNOW the answer. I’ve read sources that put the age of the universe at 15 billion years. Why would our own solar system be a mere 4.5 billion? What was going on for 10.5 billion years before the earth was created?
After 40 years of this lame game, any Christian or pro-life politician that can’t handle routine questions about his faith or his pro-life position, is clearly not qualified for the field of politics.
dust swirlies
Marco Rubio was snagged on a “gotcha” question. At this point, anyone who is a target of such a question will have to be prepared to turn it around and ask the inquisitive one, “Have you stopped beating your wife?”
Of course, the inquisitive one may not HAVE a wife, but he might have a dog or a dear old sainted mother. Some fashion or another, it is obligatory to take it back to the busybody.
Good Answer, Good Answer! (said in a “Family Feud” tone of voice).
Mine would be something along the lines of “I’m not too concerned about when the Earth started - but I SURE am concerned about when this Nation of Liberty and Prosperity will end, and will do everything I can to prevent its demise.”
I'd go with "I can't say for sure. It was already there when I got here."
The book doesn't say that "bara" means "created," as in making something from nothing. In fact, the Hebrew root implies shaping a preexisting workpiece, producing chips or dust.
From a speech by Comrade Chi Haotian
Vice-Chairman of China’s Military Commission, December, 2005
The problem you see, is that those on the left, like all other totalitarians, despise competition. Even among themselves.
I'd go with "I can't say for sure. It was already there when I got here."
I really don’t know how it matters what someones belief is about the age of the earth.
I am sure that carbon dating has its limits. God may be playing a cruel hoax where if they get close to that date the method goes haywire. There have been several instances where something in nature defies physics.
I don’t know how old the world is and I don’t care. I have to get to my next paycheck so the age of the earth does not concern me. Anyone who is bothered about someones belief in a young earth obviously has more money and time than I do.
I bet that most Americans don’t really care without the media trying to make it an issue
Read the Catechism: Day 46
Part1:The Profession of Faith (26 - 1065)
Section2:The Profession of the Christian Faith (185 - 1065)
Chapter1:I Believe in God the Father (198 - 421)
Article1:”I believe in God the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth” (199 - 421)
Paragraph4:The Creator (279 - 324)
V. GOD CARRIES OUT HIS PLAN: DIVINE PROVIDENCE
302 Creation has its own goodness and proper perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created “in a state of journeying” (in statu viae) toward an ultimate perfection yet to be attained, to which God has destined it. We call “divine providence” the dispositions by which God guides his creation toward this perfection:
By his providence God protects and governs all things which he has made, “reaching mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and ordering all things well”. For “all are open and laid bare to his eyes”, even those things which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures.
303 The witness of Scripture is unanimous that the solicitude of divine providence is concrete and immediate; God cares for all, from the least things to the great events of the world and its history. The sacred books powerfully affirm God’s absolute sovereignty over the course of events: “Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.” And so it is with Christ, “who opens and no one shall shut, who shuts and no one opens”. As the book of Proverbs states: “Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will be established.”
304 And so we see the Holy Spirit, the principal author of Sacred Scripture, often attributing actions to God without mentioning any secondary causes. This is not a “primitive mode of speech”, but a profound way of recalling God’s primacy and absolute Lordship over history and the world, and so of educating his people to trust in him. The prayer of the Psalms is the great school of this trust.
305 Jesus asks for childlike abandonment to the providence of our heavenly Father who takes care of his children’s smallest needs: “Therefore do not be anxious, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?”... Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.”
I just remembered that Rubio was a Mormon as a child. That question would be tough for any Mormon or ex-mormon. The Mormon faith is based in materialism much like Atheism. Matter has always existed and God just formed it into the earth.
Wasn’t it General Sheridan who taught us that the only good queer is a not living queer?
That is how Ronald Reagen would answer
6000 years aprox. Binary Planet is an a unstable system and cannot last for very long at all. The farther from the earth, the weaker the gravity and it spins away, the nearer the stronger and it crashes into the earth in a short time.
Being lambasted by space debri insures that it will loose ballance if it was perfect to start.
million years? Impossible. At the current rate of spin away, will will not have a moon a Hundred thousan years from now.
“The age of the earth is anything G-d wants it to be!”
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