nebula Posted May 28, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.95 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted May 28, 2009 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1720...ref=online-news Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLight Posted May 28, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 22 Topic Count: 1,294 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 31,762 Content Per Day: 5.23 Reputation: 9,762 Days Won: 115 Joined: 09/14/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted May 28, 2009 I think their discussion is way over my head. I believe God created everything is the time frame of Genesis 1, but I also believe that since then, His creation has evolved by cross breeding. Simple, but what I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraught Posted May 28, 2009 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 105 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,741 Content Per Day: 0.28 Reputation: 28 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/23/2007 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/30/1959 Share Posted May 28, 2009 but why? it just doesn't make sense to me that God would just plant some primordial ooze and add in some noxious gases , whirl things around violently and wait to see what happened. what's the point. the only possible way old earth theory works if there is a gap between gen 1 and 2, the gap theory, i guess it's called. even then, nothing was alive on the earth so it explains only sedimentary layers. there is no way to get around the fact that death did not exist until the fall. therefore, animals and people at the same time. i don't see how that can be questioned at all. if we could admit there are things we don't know yet, this would solve a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokemaughan Posted May 28, 2009 Group: Senior Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 74 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 630 Content Per Day: 0.11 Reputation: 12 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/19/2008 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/09/1990 Share Posted May 28, 2009 if we could admit there are things we don't know yet, this would solve a lot. If we could also admit that there are things we can't know, we'd avoid bickering and hair-splitting issues like these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smalcald Posted May 28, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 32 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 5,258 Content Per Day: 0.76 Reputation: 42 Days Won: 3 Joined: 06/16/2005 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/22/1960 Share Posted May 28, 2009 I think it is all very interesting. But in the end the center of our faith revovles around a man rising from the dead who was and is also God. Science is not going to get us very far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthitjah Posted May 28, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 1,285 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 17,917 Content Per Day: 2.27 Reputation: 355 Days Won: 19 Joined: 10/01/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted May 28, 2009 I believe it's another huge distraction that divides while the hour grows later an later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted May 28, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.76 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.95 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Author Share Posted May 28, 2009 Ah - but those of us who are Christians in the science field do have to deal with this issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthitjah Posted May 28, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 1,285 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 17,917 Content Per Day: 2.27 Reputation: 355 Days Won: 19 Joined: 10/01/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted May 28, 2009 Ah - but those of us who are Christians in the science field do have to deal with this issue. Amen, but we shouldn't let it become a family issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glorywatch Posted May 28, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 88 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 692 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/02/2008 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/02/1946 Share Posted May 28, 2009 It's a bit out of my league too, but I did read the following by Francis Collins "feels that intelligent design poses a serious problem to Christian belief because it rejects Darwinian evolution, which he feels is supported by overwhelming evidence." Collins claims to be an Evangelical Christian yet supports Darwinism. Sorry, but you can't have it both ways. Either God created everything or He didn't. Yes I know there is evolution WITHIN a species, but there is NO evidence for macro-evolution which is the whole of the Darwin Theory, so there is the rub. We did not evolve from some goo. Genesis clearly states otherwise. I guess it really comes down to "hath God said?" and well, yeah, He did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgedrw81 Posted May 28, 2009 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,823 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 36 Days Won: 2 Joined: 04/10/2009 Status: Offline Share Posted May 28, 2009 I think their discussion is way over my head. I believe God created everything is the time frame of Genesis 1, but I also believe that since then, His creation has evolved by cross breeding. Simple, but what I believe. Me too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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