Why are you concerned about this? What does it matter? Are you only trying to get people to accept an idea? So what if people believe the earth is only 6000 or 10,000 years old? They won’t be able to drive a car? Tie their shoes? What?
The “timeless deity” perhaps created in six days so he could send a message to man to relax on day seven as He did; and, for man to think about the Person who created the universe and life “at once” during each of the six days. Perhaps had man followed that simple instruction of resting on the seventh day to comtemplate creation and the creator we might not have gotten into all the troubles we have gotten into through the centuries. But to paraphrase Augustine: I’ll just have to go along with what He said in scripture Genesis 1-11. And so will I along with about 50% of the American people.
Yeah, I couldn’t tell if it was a joke or not.Thank you buffalo. It appears the “it’s just a chemical or collection of chemicals” idea is falling apart for DNA. The Baylor story may be an April Fool’s “joke” but it’s hard to tell. Obviously, Intelligent Design is the enemy –
God bless,
Ed
Choose Jesus.
I guess the proceedings of the Notre Dame Conference are not out yet. Here is a reference to his Angelicum talk:
How does this support ID?
They should not be allowed to educate children.
Who is going to stop them? I’m sure you’ve seen the polls showing how many in the US believe man was created in his current form 6000 years ago, while some indicate 10,000. There are plenty of non-public school situations where people are taught this.
Orthodox Jews, fundamentalist Christians (Catholics and Protestants) and most Muslims insist that the early stories in Genesis are true. Sorry, but this is nonsense, and turns more and more educated and insightful people against religion.
Who really believes, for example, that God regretted that he created humankind, then drowns everybody but eight people - and whole ark and two animals fable? Nice to tell children, as long as we explain that it's a story from long ago, a legend based on a likely event, a major flood, with some spiritual lessons perhaps, but not factual in detail. Think of all the innocent chiildren, some still in the womb, who would have drowned. And all those innocent animals, too. The work of a our loving God? I don't think so.
Or, that different languages were God's punishment for building a tower into the sky - a tower probably only a fraction of the height of many skycrapers today.
Or, the 'rib story' of the creation of Eve as Adam's 'helpmate'.
Christians need to embrace a reasonable faith and not one that defies logic, history, and its own morality. They should openly acknowledge that much is scripture is primitive and explain what moral lessons are in these fables when there are any.Those ancient believers had no effective telescopes nor microscopes, so their opinions were based on considerable speculation plus a major dose of myth borrowed from other religions and the culture at the time.. What makes Christianity look silly is when it insists that the Holy Spirit guarded each and every word in the Bible - obviously absurd!
God bless people of faith, and may they turn from myth, superstition, and bigotry. And I mean every faith - Catholic, Protestant, yes, and Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, etc. We all are pilgrims in this magnificant but mysterious world and none of us knows all that much. Let us respect the views of one another, however they may differ from our own.Two reasons.
Uhhhh! Ed and I did - if you would follow the posts.Read the article carefully, from the dateline right to the end.
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I don’t understand how those who promote a young earth will be hindered by anyone posting here. Those people are operating outside of the circle of people I know. As usual, someone will go to court about this.
It is an April Fool, the author says so in the last line.Uhhhh! Ed and I did - if you would follow the posts.
Uh…the Babel story is not about building skyscrapers too high. It’s about Pride - not needing God (in this case, to reach Heaven). Perhaps this misunderstanding is what makes some people here immune to reminders that Pride is a bad thing. :idea: