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Originally posted by FireFly@Aug 31 2005, 12:29 PM
I'm a Christian, and I believe in both. I don't believe in the big bang theory, and I have my own 'explaination' for why the world looks the way it does, without it taking 60 Billion years to make it look that way. (Or however long evolutionists say it took to make the earth look that way.)
A literal interpretation of the Bible is going overboard. There are some things that 'should' be taken literally by those who believe in it, and others, like the story of creation, should be taken as rough approximations.
If you want to get technical, a creationist 'should' believe that the Earth is about 14000 years old. 7000 years for creation, (one per 'day' in the Bible,) and 7000 years for destruction, which we should be nearing the Revelation shortly.
Here's a question for you all who don't believe:
Should the events depicted in the Book of Revelation actually occur, would you then believe?
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I'm a Christian and I believe in the Big Bang Theory and the subsequent theory for the way the cosmos develop. One problem I have with the literal interpretation of the 7 day Creation theory is ... why 7 days? If God is completely all powerful why did it take him 6 days and why did he have to rest on the 7th day? If God is god then he should have snapped his fingers and it all would have been done. To me it points to a more allegorical (ie. dumbed down) explanation of evolution for vastly less scientifically advanced people.
To Cheese: Are you saying Christians have to either believe the Bible entirely or reject it entirely? Didn't I read someone else talk about the importance of free thought somewhere in this thread??
I think it's called critical thinking.