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archer2371 · 09-09-2003, 01:55 PM

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Originally posted by Himbo

1. According to the bible the earth is 10,000 years old. However Carbon dating (that's with rocks) has proven that this earth is over 2 millions years old?

This was actually something that was miscalculated by Biblical Scholars tracing back the years of who begot who (there are tons of lineages mentioned in the Bible) to figure out the Earth was created ten thousand years ago, however, what most people fail to take into account is the fact that the Bible has no specific time frame like how many actual years it took to create the Earth. Also, the scholars placed a 20th Century lifespan on people that lived to be close to half a millennia old, which was also an oversight.

2. If God and Christians alike see homosexual behaviour as a sin then why does he make people gay? Why has it been proven that people who are homosexual have a slightly different chemical makeup or something. Like one extra of this or one less of this?

Point is, we're all sinners and all have fallen short of the Glory, one of my favorite quotes is "Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven."

3. Why no mention of dinosaurs in the bible? How could Noah build a structure large enough to house ever single creature on the planet? When todya we couldn't build a structure so large and maintain it with all those animals for 40 days.

Lebell is correct in saying that the Bible is not a science book at all, yet man and dinosaur never coexisted. It's true, the Ark boggles the mind, but I take it as another of God's great miracles, and plus Mt. Ararat was still above water, what's to say that there weren't some other high places above water and some of the other animals headed for the hills (pardon the pun).

4. If you have to "confess your sins" and ask for forgivness how do children under the age of 4 get into heaven. If they can't ask for forginess do they all go to hell?

There's an age of recognition thing going on with God, which I believe is 13, maybe 12, I'm not entirely sure. Anyways, it's not really until this age (in God's eyes) that a child can clearly discern right and wrong and begin to make choices for themselves. These children get a free pass, because they can't really make such decisions about faith so early, I believe that goes for the mentally handicapped as well.

5. She told me some crap about some scientists actually making life out of nothing? I've tried to find that on the net but can't.

Hasn't happened, they haven't made a living breathing organism out of thin air, they would have to start with something from nature anyways to create life, and that's not exactly life from nothing is it? It's true they've been able to replicate organs and other such things, but by using tissues from humans, yet these organs don't have the ability to think or make choices.