ebia, my friend...
Yes. The same science that has produced all the technological and medical advances that you seem quite happy to make use of. Either science works or it doesn't, and the world we have around us proves pretty conclusively that it works.
So, in your mind, because we have cars, computers, aspirin, etc...all scientific
theory is proved beyond all doubt?
You know full well that there's a huge gulf between the laws of science and the theoretical sciences ebia. Or, at least you should.
I did not know that discussion on DNA was not allowed. I will keep my DNA references rudimentary... I have a pretty good understanding of DNA, carbon/radio dating, and the theory of evolution, and I can tell you that if you are serious about God, and I don't question you that you are, you will make a point of looking in to it, because "God supported evolution" didn't happen ebia. The actual fact is that God says it did not happen that way. The Genesis account is not ambiguous in the least, it is purposeful and quite specific. It's you who are interpretational ebia, not me. I take the account literally.The evidence actually supports God's telling of how He created life, we never see a fish morph into a lizard. The DNA data does not support an evolutionary process either ebia. Now, some scientists are telling us that we have "stopped evolving", and that's why we can find no "further" evidence to support it.
Gen 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit
after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Gen 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed
after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself,
after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly,
after their kind, and every winged fowl after
his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
Gen 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth
after his kind: and it was so.
Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth
after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth
after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
Gen 6:20 Of fowls
after their kind, and of cattle
after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth
after his kind, two of every [sort] shall come unto thee, to keep [them] alive.
Gen 7:14 They, and every beast
after his kind, and all the cattle
after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth
after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
In your opinion, you read, Genesis, for example, and when God says He created each life form "after their kind" you don't take that statement as a literal true event. You then, must decide to put your own interpretation of what God really meant.
In my literal understanding, I accept the story as is, at face value. So there is no different interpretation, I'm not putting my own spin on it. God created each life form as a fully developed individual species, and each will reproduce their own kind. God never even hints that one species could change into another, and yet, because some people have doubts about God's ability to create in His manner, as He said He did, they are forced to come up with their own ideas that are in direct contrast to what God said actually happened.
All stories give details - the presence of details doesn't in any way indicate the historical truth or otherwise of a story. You believe Him. I believe Him. But we believe He meant different things by it. He never said it was history, that's a human assumption.
ebia, if it's not history, if God is merely a "story teller" then how can we take Him seriously? We are then, forced to chose which "rules" we should obey, and which we shouldn't. We are forced to wonder whether God really created life and the Heavens at all. If God said He created the Heavens and the earth, as well as all life in the time the Genesis account says He did, yet, we come to the conclusion that the account is wrong, or ambiguous, then He's not being 100% truthful is He?
Heck, I might even doubt He ever did any of the other miraculous things He says He did.
What else don't you believe that God said ebia?
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