Posted on 12/15/2010 5:17:34 AM PST by ImProudToBeAnAmerican
All of science is an attempt to explain and duplicate that which GOD did FIRST.
? Here is your exact words....
the Bible when it says the good Lord made the Earth 6,000 years old?
What does one have to do with the other? Did you read the part about "Fill the earth" ??
Why would there be a reason to procreate?Talk about suspension of belief!
What does one have to do with the other? Did you read the part about "Fill the earth" ??
Why would gender even become an issue if there was no death?
What does one have to do with the other? Did you read the part about "Fill the earth" ??
You are trying to make a claim based on a faulty assumption.
"Which theory of evolution are you talking about?
"...What is the significance of such a theory? To address this question is to enter the field of epistemology.
A theory is a metascientific elaboration distinct from the results of observation, but consistent with them.
By means of it a series of independent data and facts can be related and interpreted in a unified explanation. A theory's validity depends on whether or not it can be verified; it is constantly tested against the facts; wherever it can no longer explain the latter, it shows its limitations and unsuitability. It must then be rethought.
Furthermore, while the formulation of a theory like that of evolution complies with the need for consistency with the observed data, it borrows certain notions from natural philosophy.
And, to tell the truth, rather than the theory of evolution, we should speak of several theories of evolution.
On the one hand, this plurality has to do with the different explanations advanced for the mechanism of evolution, and on the other, with the various philosophies on which it is based.
Hence the existence of materialist, reductionist, and spiritualist interpretations.
What is to be decided here is the true role of philosophy and, beyond it, of theology.
Consequently, theories of evolution which, in accordance with the philosophies inspiring them, consider _the spirit_ as emerging from the forces of living matter or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter are incompatible with the truth about man. Nor are they able to ground the dignity of the person. ..."
Excerpted from:
Theories of Evolution
John Paul II
Copyright (c) 1997 First Things 71 (March 1997): 28-29. Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, October 22, 1996
bttt
Please refrain from posting any facts when you are answering evos ... their deep understanding of math and physics easily confuses them.
Without even addressing the linguistics of creation, if what you say is true, then you still have the issue of death and sin to deal with. Before their sin in the Garden, there was no death in the world. If that’s the case, where did coal and oil originate from?
LOL
bttt
You may want to check again, I didn’t say that. I commented on your reply to someone else.
The Earth as it was previously was ruined by the fall of Lucifer. The correct interpretation of Genesis 1:2 is “And the World became “Hayah” without form and void”. In Genesis God was making things right again, so Genesis is not the literal beginning. Geneses even discusses the Earth being replenished, which implies a previous existance.
Im a YEC ... but you bring up a question that I have never seen asked before.
As far as the Polystrate trees, let’s just say the Earth has undergone major cataclysmic changes, many times in the past.
Well put.
OK. But since you used "Me" and totally misquoted both the other guys and my words and totally misrepresented the meaning of my words by your distortions, I didn't bother to notice that it was not your words. Now I know.
Please apolgize for misquoting me and thus altering the meaning of my words. Thank you.
I’ve seen it before and while it does seem to answer the issue, it really doesn’t since it doesn’t answer the issue of fossils. Death didn’t enter until after the fall, so if there’s no death, there’s no fossils.
That would be Dr. Francis Collins, the founder of Biologos.org
We know that God brought all the animals before Adam for Adam's evaluation as a mate. That must have taken at least a few days ...
Sure, as soon as you admit that you’re in over your head when it comes to Biblical Infallibility and it’s effects upon Salvation.
Otherwise, I stand by what I said. You don’t even realize that you’ve made a fool out of yourself by insisting on errors in the Scriptures.
I will answer with a question ... and that should give you the answer.
What would be the population of the Earth after a million years if none of the people died?
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