Any young earth creationists out there?

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In the past, supporters of textbook evolution have insisted that how life came to be is a totally separate question. It’s not. Scientists believe that if another planet was the right distance from its sun, had water and ‘the building blocks of life’ (amino acids), then life would appear there. At first, I believed them, then I realized “They don’t know that.” They don’t, and the same with earth. We’re just biological robots that started with chemicals and physics - so-called natural forces - and poof, life. But if it was so easy, scientists should be making life, from scratch, right now.
 
I mean. In a sense I suppose. Life didn’t inheiret anything from “rocks” except the chemicals used in building molocules. Not traits in the same way that ancestors do.
 
Carmel said:
You must have seen the posters showing the seven stages from chimp to man.
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Yes, indeed, and very instructive they can be, when understood. As you do not understand, better not to try to discredit a subject you know so little about and just stick to your faith in the bible. That way you will maintain your integrity and my respect.
 
Is this thread still about Young Earth Creationism, or has it been reshaped into Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Part 4.2?
 
By the way, the day wasn’t always 24 hours. It used to be a lot shorter, like 10 hours, according to astronomers and earth scientists. The tides gradually slow the earth’s rotation.

This is good news. It means we will have more hours in the day to get things done – or to get more sleep – if we wait long enough.
 
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RandomAlias said:
Is this thread still about Young Earth Creationism, or has it been reshaped into Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Part 4.2?
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Just like the Darwin threads get reshaped into Young Earth Creationism.
 
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Speciation isn’t empirical evidence that a rodent can evolve into a whale or a monkey-man can evolve into a human.
 
Yes. Perhaps the two topics are inseparable, like two sides of the same coin.

In a way I miss your Darwin/Evolution threads. They were more civil than this one.

But now that the regular adversaries have arrived, equilibrium will be restored and things are sure to improve.
 
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TheAmazingGrace said:
Sweetheart, my BS degree is in biology, and I definitely wasnt aware of any atheist science cults at my Catholic college. Get back to me when you’ve taken an actual biology class.
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You have a degree in biology - this means you are probably even more brainwashed than the average evolutionist.

How many fossils have you actually examined? Two? Three? Do you have a Ph.d in paleontology and how many decades have you spent studying the entire fossil record - not by reading about about it, but by actually studying it first-hand? If you haven’t been trained in paleontology and haven’t devoted several decades studying the entire fossil record, I’d say your “knowledge” of fossils amounts to precious little, and what little you do “know” is based entirely on the views of others (99.99% of whom are probably evo-obsessed atheists).

If you haven’t noticed the atheist dominance of Origins science, then maybe you have problems with your eyes and ears. And are you really so naive as to think the influence of “atheist science” hasn’t contaminated Catholic universities?

Plus you didn’t answer my question: Do you think it’s wise to rely on a bunch of God-haters to inform you about the origins of life?
 
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Science doesn’t give the full complete answer, and it doesn’t claim to. Science deals with proximate causes and doesn’t explain how matter first came into being. Biology doesn’t answer with that question. It doesn’t include God, but it doesn’t exclude Him either. Only religion and philosophy deals with that kind of question.
Likewise, the Church’s teaching on creation does not explain the science behind how God created everything… that’s what science is interested in.

For us, evolution feels like a long time. But God works outside of time. God’s ways are not our ways. How can we say that something is less of a miracle because it happened over a long period of time?
The complexity of the science of the world around us leaves me in awe. We humans are struggling to figure it out but it is God who created it all. Studying science has made my faith stronger, not weakened it.
 
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Brittany said:
The only different between the two is time.
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This is like saying, in a thousand years time, humans could be running 100 meters in one second.
Microevolution becomes macroevolution if given enough time because continuously adding small changes eventually results in a big change.
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Thank you, but I am well aware of the concept. The claim that small changes can eventually add up to massive changes - of the sort that can change a rodent into a whale, for example, is nothing more than a belief based on a extrapolation. No empirical evidence exists that supports the extrapolation.
 
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“Carmel said:
Matthew Ch.15.8 Jesus quotes Isaiah, saying " This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; and in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine the precepts of men"
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If you ask me, an awful lot of Catholics fall into this category. It’s pretty sad.
 
If fundamentalists are folks who take the Word of God seriously, as per Church teaching, what do you call folks, like you, who have very little or no respect for Scripture? (If you are an atheist, ignore the question.)
 
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