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Savvy27 · 08-31-2005, 01:48 PM

I find it kind of entertaining that people still question whether the earth is billions of years old.

But, I do want to make one comment in relation to what Cheese was saying. Although I agree with you that Christians often disregard parts of the bible for the sake of convenience, they truly cannot take literally everything written in it. It has been shown by researchers who have studied the bible that throughout the many years it has been around, there have been things added. There will be passages that will go completely off topic to include a "rule" or something similar that has no bearing on the rest of the passage so it is assumed that this was not put in by the original author.

Anyways, back to the age of the earth. I have to go with Cow on this one. The theory of evolution is not on par evidence (or logic IMO) wise with creationism. It is not even close. DELETED because this has been explained much better by people above me.

When you really look at it, if Christianity hadn't caught on, people would be calling anyone who considered a book that had been written by people who were supposedly inspired by angels, crackpots. An all powerful, yet invisible, father figure created the universe in six days then chilled out on the seventh.

One question I have for believers would have to be: Don't you find it a little worrying that God would create dinosaurs only to choose he didn't like them anymore and destroy them?

OH! and to actually comment on the original topic, I think its totally absurd for people to believe in creationism, but, if they also learned the theory of evolution then I think its unfair to keep them from attending the university. I doubt the students truly wanted to be taught creationism and I would think that spending time at an institution where science is taught based on fact instead 'faith' would only help these students.

08-31-2005, 01:48 PM	#68
Savvy27 #1 Goaltender Join Date: Sep 2002 Exp:	I find it kind of entertaining that people still question whether the earth is billions of years old. But, I do want to make one comment in relation to what Cheese was saying. Although I agree with you that Christians often disregard parts of the bible for the sake of convenience, they truly cannot take literally everything written in it. It has been shown by researchers who have studied the bible that throughout the many years it has been around, there have been things added. There will be passages that will go completely off topic to include a "rule" or something similar that has no bearing on the rest of the passage so it is assumed that this was not put in by the original author. Anyways, back to the age of the earth. I have to go with Cow on this one. The theory of evolution is not on par evidence (or logic IMO) wise with creationism. It is not even close. DELETED because this has been explained much better by people above me. When you really look at it, if Christianity hadn't caught on, people would be calling anyone who considered a book that had been written by people who were supposedly inspired by angels, crackpots. An all powerful, yet invisible, father figure created the universe in six days then chilled out on the seventh. One question I have for believers would have to be: Don't you find it a little worrying that God would create dinosaurs only to choose he didn't like them anymore and destroy them? OH! and to actually comment on the original topic, I think its totally absurd for people to believe in creationism, but, if they also learned the theory of evolution then I think its unfair to keep them from attending the university. I doubt the students truly wanted to be taught creationism and I would think that spending time at an institution where science is taught based on fact instead 'faith' would only help these students.