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Originally Posted by Zeraph
I've never understood why there is this big debate on science vs religion. If you really believe god is all powerful he can make the universe look anyway he freaking chooses whether it be a year old or 4 billion.
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Originally Posted by Zeraph
Quoted because I agree.
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I agree that an all-powerful God, who created the universe,
could make the Earth appear to scientific analysis that it's very, very old, even though it's actually quite young. However, I do not agree that the God of the Bible has done this. Why
would this one, true God do such a thing, to us mortals? To confuse us? To test our faith? To set the believers against the scientists?
No, that sounds like the sort of thing a devious, and perhaps even mad, god of Greek mythology would do.
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Originally Posted by Jinn
The unverifiable, inaccurate, archaic theory proposed by Genesis is not supported by other texts of the time period or any celestial research since. When something like this runs aground against the massive flood of observable, verifiable, peer-reviewed scientific research, it should never be equated in a way that implies identical credibility.
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Read the entire book of Genesis, and you'll see that the "creation" takes up only a very small part of it, and is not really what the book is about.
Then, what is the book of Genesis really all about? It's about the original fall of mankind that led to his separation from God, and God's initial ministrations to reconcile mankind, and mankind's rebellion against God.
Yes, the word
genesis means "the origin or coming into being of something". But, see, Genesis means to explain how it came into being not so much the universe and the Earth, as it does the fall of mankind and his separation from God, and thus this harsh world and this wretched situation that we're now living in, i.e. hardships, poverty, warfare, pain and suffering, sickness and death – Genesis means to explain how
that came into being.