Any young earth creationists out there?

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Yes I know. But I was hoping someone could debunk this. Where is the error?
 
Carmel said:
For Bible believers, not cafeteria catholics or atheists have you considered that dinosaurs and man lived at the same time ?
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Indeed. But they’re all extinct now, so what do you understand is the meaning of that? Did God create evil dinosaurs, which had to be killed by the flood?
What if the reptile that entered the gardenwasn’t a small snake in an adjacent tree , but , in fact was in the form of a dinosaur ?
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Eh? The word is snake. A snake isn’t a dinosaur. How dare you depart from your principles in such a cavalier way?
 
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Yes I know. But I was hoping someone could debunk this. Where is the error?
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No error. Life is older than we thought. Big deal. The oceans formed about 4.4 billion years ago, and life was at least possible more or less from then on. It may well have developed several times, in different forms, but the instability of the environment meant that only one kind lasted. Half a billion years is plenty of time for stromatolites to evolve.
 
The Church’s evolutionists would have us believe that it took billions of years for evolution to produce Adam, but then God created Eve in an instant. Apparently, this scenario makes sense to them.
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Yes, that’s what science says: The Big Bang happened about 13.8 billion years ago. Humans (body-soul) probably about 100,000 years ago, maybe earlier, maybe later. So yep, it really did take billions of years. And so what? The Church allows us to accept the findings of science, even on this matter. There was a whole Papal encyclical about it.
It also makes sense to them that God would use billions of years of struggle, trial and error, disease, pain and death to produce what He could have created in an instant.
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I mean, you could say it like that. But it doesn’t dispense with the fact that that is indeed what the evidence shows.
 
I would submit that no one on this current thread is as learned or knowledgeable in the area of faith, sicence, and reason as Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ.

blog.magiscenter.com

Are the Bible and Darwinian evolution diametrically opposed?

Fr. Spitzer shows how the Bible and Darwinian evolution are not in fact diametrically opposed.
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But ultimately, as the Church has long said, this is a matter of science. It does not seem many on this thread are adequately trained to interact with it responsibly. I’m no scientist either. I simply recognize:
  1. The Church lets me accept evolution.
  2. The scientific consensus accepts evolution
Therefore, to be sane, I accept evolution.
 
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Science refuses to deal with apparent anomalies. That’s all there is to it. Today you can buy a tree that’s been missing for millions of years. Forget about past climate change and ice ages and catastrophes, you can take one home. It’s called a Wollemi Pine and an “evolutionary success.”

http://www.wollemipine.com/aboutwp.php
 
That is why science is science.

It’s not all at once.

Discovery, modification, discovery, modification.

I’m just afraid many on here are offering a “God of the Gaps,” e.g., there are gaps in the evolutionary tree, therefore it’s God’s intervention. That’s not scientific.
 
S C I E N C E.

Because Catholics aren’t supposed to choose Faith OR Reason. It’s both.
 
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Nelka said:
Where is the evidence God spent 10 billion years planting a few trees?
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I’m sorry, but really? I know you don’t think that’s all that happened in 10 billion years.

You certainly don’t have to believe the science. You can also believe the earth is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. But that won’t make those ideas true, either.
 
I have no problem with science (except I found it extremely boring at school) but I believe God created the world and isn’t set by human standards of watching mountains grow over a long period of time.
 
I don’t believe stuff like that but what purpose would there be for God to spend so long created the world?
 
Nelka said:
I have no problem with science (except I found it extremely boring at school) but I believe God created the world and isn’t set by human standards of watching mountains grow over a long period of time.
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There’s no conflict between believing the God created the world, and evolution. Or geology, since you bring up mountains.
 
I don’t see any Christian on here saying that evolution means creation is unguided or unplanned.
 
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