I'm a Christian and I believe the universe is billions of years old. The 10,000 year age of the universe is based on the genealogy in the Bible starting from Adam. Some people believe that Adam was created on the 6th day. I believe the 6 days of creation was Gods way of explaining the sequence of creation, not the actual length of time. Imagine Moses trying to wrap his head around the concept of billions of years.
Compare the Biblical sequence of creation to the scientific sequence of the Big Bang. The similarities are significant.
1. There was a void.
2. Then there was light.
3. Matter begins to coalesce into galaxies, stars.
4. Stars age and die. Heavier elements form. Rinse and repeat.
5. The Earth forms and gets impacted by a Mars sized planet. 6. The moon is formed and the earth is tilted 23.5 degrees. This later allows seasons and life.
7. Comets deliver water to Earth.
8. Life is created, animals then man.
9. Adam and Eve are placed in the Garden of Eden.
10. Being immortal, the don't track birthdays.
11. For a very long time they obey God.
12. They done messed up. I hope that apple was good.
13. Adam and Eve are kicked out of the garden.
14. Now mortal, they begin counting the years. This is where we get the 10,000 years.
I believe that God spoke the Big Bang into existence.
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Ooh, nice
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This is just as likely as an Atheists idea of what happened (which I am) and we can't disprove anything, even in the most biblical sense there is so much we don't know anything is possible.
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This is very good, I like It.
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I appreciate that.
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You're the type of person I like, you can be both religious and scientific because you know how to intertwine them and let them coexist +1
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[quote]You're the type of person I like, you can be both religious and scientific because you know how to intertwine them and let them coexist +1[/quote] I think it makes no sense to deny what we see in front of us. I believe much of the Bible should be taken literally. Such as the sections dealing with Christ and salvation. However, when God is trying to explain something as complicated as the beginning of the universe to humans 2400 years ago, he had to explain it in terms they could comprehend. Even now we have much to learn.
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Exactly most Christians actually believe this not that the earth was created a few thousand years ago
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[quote]I'm a Christian and I believe the universe is billions of years old. The 10,000 year age of the universe is based on the genealogy in the Bible starting from Adam. Some people believe that Adam was created on the 6th day. I believe the 6 days of creation was Gods way of explaining the sequence of creation, not the actual length of time. Imagine Moses trying to wrap his head around the concept of billions of years. Compare the Biblical sequence of creation to the scientific sequence of the Big Bang. The similarities are significant. 1. There was a void. 2. Then there was light. 3. Matter begins to coalesce into galaxies, stars. 4. Stars age and die. Heavier elements form. Rinse and repeat. 5. The Earth forms and gets impacted by a Mars sized planet. 6. The moon is formed and the earth is tilted 23.5 degrees. This later allows seasons and life. 7. Comets deliver water to Earth. 8. Life is created, animals then man. 9. Adam and Eve are placed in the Garden of Eden. 10. Being immortal, the don't track birthdays. 11. For a very long time they obey God. 12. They done messed up. I hope that apple was good. 13. Adam and Eve are kicked out of the garden. 14. Now mortal, they begin counting the years. This is where we get the 10,000 years. I believe that God spoke the Big Bang into existence.[/quote] At least you have an open mind about all this.
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*shower thoughts* My point of view of Christianity is now changed
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This. If there is a God, I feel like this is how it would have happened.
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[quote]I believe God spoke the Big Bang into existence[/quote] I like this statement. I typically won't agree with creationist viewpoints, but I can and will agree with this. Something, somewhere pushed life in a direction. It didn't just happen. Maybe God was the Big Bang? The creator of life? He who created man, the earth and sun?
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-blam!-, you guys are retarded lmao
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Just don't go around saying dinosaurs weren't real. I like my stegosaurus's
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[quote]Just don't go around saying dinosaurs weren't real. I like my stegosaurus's[/quote] Who doesn't?
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That's my dads way of thinking about it. [spoiler]I'm still an atheist though.[/spoiler]
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I don't know if it would be exactly like this but I do think there is a way for science and 'God' to coexist.
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"The more I study science, the more I believe in God.” –Albert Einstein.
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"The quotes you see that I said, I likely didn't say." -Albert Einstein
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"If E=mc^2, then u=bitch" -Albert Ienstien
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[quote]I don't know if it would be exactly like this but I do think there is a way for science and 'God' to coexist.[/quote]
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We know for a fact that the gene pool never contained only two individuals.
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There must've been more people. Maybe at first Adam and Eve were the first people, but that doesn't mean that at some point more people could've came, because if they didn't that means incest, which God is against.
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[quote]We know for a fact that the gene pool never contained only two individuals.[/quote] References would be nice. However, I tend to agree. I don't think Adam and Eve were the only humans. I believe they were set apart for a specific relationship with God. I also believe the humans of Gen 1:26-28 were not Adam and Eve. HCSB Gen 1:26-28 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female. God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. The Bible also discusses that after Adam and Eve sinned and left the garden, they had sons who married human women. Those women came from somewhere.
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Edited by Stickman Al: 1/24/2016 2:43:58 PMhttps://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/adam-and-eve-the-ultimate-standoff-between-science-and-faith-and-a-contest/ But as far as them not being the first humans, genesis 2:4 clearly says that Adam was the first man. [i]4. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [b]there was not a man to till the ground.[/b] 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. [/i] I suppose you could argue he made a bunch of people afterwards, but it's rather strange that they would receive no mention whatsoever and would seem to have been punished for Adam and Eve's 'crime'.
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