Any young earth creationists out there?

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semper_catholicus said:
God did not NEED a rib to make Eve, he chose to use a rib to make Eve.
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Aha! Now we’re getting somewhere. Why do you think God chose a rib? Is Genesis merely an account of what happened, or is God trying to tell us something more about ourselves?
 
Nelka said:
Forget the forearms check out the head!
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Are you saying that one bit of a dinosaur looks like one bit of the devil? Or vice versa? You may be right, but that’s hardly evidence that dinosaurs looked like the devil, is it?
 
Nelka said:
It’s the same creation, read it through and you will understand.
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Except they’re not. Key details are totally different.

I have a minor in theology, and I spent a significant amount of time in one of my classes pouring over those particular passages. They were written years apart, and do not have the same authorial intent.
 
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semper_catholicus said:
It’s an account of what happened.
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Nothing more than that? Just a history book? Well, OK. I thought there might be some theology involved. Strange that the account is included in the Easter Vigil readings, which I understand have some deeper significance than just a bit of history.
 
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Are you suggesting that evolution is theology, or that there is no history contained in Genesis 1-11?
 
Nelka said:
Thank You although I see no evidence of orang-utans turning into people.
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Good, because they didn’t. You know, there really is a lot of information out there about what evolution really is about.
 
semper_catholicus said:
Are you suggesting that evolution is theology, or that there is no history contained in Genesis 1-11?
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I’m not suggesting anything. I’m asking you if there’s anything more to Genesis than mere history, and you’ve said no. That’s fair enough; I just wanted to know what Creationists think is the point of Genesis, and now you’ve told me.
 
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Being a Yec despite popular opinions and peer presure is in some sense courageous. But being a YEC, despite evidence to the contrary is, to put it as politely as possible, an act of cognitive dissonance.
 
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I think that it denies modern science and that it has created a science which is not a science where dinosaurs and man coexisted and the world is only 10 thousand years old. They are the equivalent of the fundamentalist atheist claiming to be philosophical when their “philosophy” is based on nothing and I can defend that statement if need be. Both sides are out there in my opinion.
 
@Carmel I have a question.

Are you at least intellectually consistent?

To be intellectually consistent, if you want to accept young earth Creation, then you also have to accept flat earth theory and geocentrism.

You can’t pick and choose. The Fathers of the Church who believed in a young Earth because of their interpretation of Scripture also believed in geocentrism.
 
Evolution denies God as the maker of Heaven and Earth and hysterically claims that man came form apes
 
Crusader30 said:
Evolution denies God as the maker of Heaven and Earth and hysterically claims that man came form apes
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Completely false. Look, you have every right not to believe in science. No skin off my nose. But you don’t have a right to tell lies about it. Evolution does NOT preclude original creation by God. And HUMANS DID NOT EVOLVE FROM APES. Everyone who knows anything about evolution knows that.
 
Crusader30 said:
Evolution denies God as the maker of Heaven and Earth and hysterically claims that man came form apes
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Hi Crusader! You don’t seem to know anything about evolution either, but never mind that. Can you tell me if you think Genesis is only a history book with no further theological significance?
 
Darwin and his followers strongly rejected God and in the early 20th Century tried to find the missing link between man and ape
 
Crusader30 said:
Darwin and his followers strongly rejected God and in the early 20th Century tried to find the missing link between man and ape
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Hi Crusader! You don’t seem to know anything about evolution either, but never mind that. Can you tell me if you think Genesis is only a history book with no further theological significance?
 
Genesis is the story of God building and creating the world and Heavens as He saw fit

Who are we to doubt it
 
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