brandino3 said in post 11:
I can't remember all of the claims against Christianity so i will just post a few that come to mind:
1. Noah's Ark couldn't hold all of those animals
Noah could have collected onto the ark only land animals and birds (Gen. 7:8). Land plants, insects, and fungi could have survived the Flood on their own as seeds, eggs, and spores. God must have miraculously brought breeding pairs of the world's land animals and birds to Noah, and then miraculously redistributed them around the world after the Flood.
Noah's ark was huge (Gen. 6:15), and so it could have stored sufficient amounts of fodder for the herbivores, and, for example, breeding rabbits for the carnivores. The carnivores could have been separated from each other and from the herbivores by wooden barriers. Or, if it was only after Noah's flood that God sanctioned the eating of meat (Gen. 9:3), during Noah's flood God could have miraculously made it so that all the animals on the ark lived as herbivores, just as at the Neolithic creation 12,000 years ago, God miraculously made it so that all animals, including man, started out living as herbivores (Gen. 1:29-30), and just as in the future, on the new earth, God will miraculously make it so that all animals will live as herbivores (Isa. 65:17,25).
2. Evolution is a scientific fact
Evolution per se (random mutation and survival of the fittest) doesn't have to contradict creationism. Instead, it can coexist with creationism, just as an automated process created by a human (e.g. a computer program which makes random, colorful pictures which can be seen as art) can coexist with that human sometimes performing a task himself, directly (painting some pictures by hand). That is, evolution per se can simply be a process created by God to allow new, adaptive species to arise naturally over time, and this process can coexist with God sometimes creating new species himself, directly, i.e. miraculously, whenever he wants to (cf. punctuated equilibria).
Creationism includes what could be called the double-gap theory, meaning that there could have been two different gaps of time in Gen. chs. 1-2, the first gap between Gen. 1:1 and 1:2, and the second gap between Gen. 2:4 and 2:5. Gen. 1:1 could have occurred some 4.5 billion years ago, when God first created the planet earth and its atmosphere (the first heaven, in which the birds fly: Gen. 1:20b). Between Gen. 1:1 and 1:2, some 4.5 billion years could have occurred, in which God could have allowed his own created process of evolution to serve as a mechanism by which new species arose on the earth. During those same 4.5 billion years, God could have also sometimes gone outside of evolution and created new species miraculously, whenever he wanted to.
Gen. 1:2 could refer to the condition of the earth only about 12,000 years ago (at the end of the Paleolithic period), after some cataclysm, such as a comet strike, had killed off all life on the planet (both evolved and miraculously created), and had submerged all land areas in water (comets contain huge amounts of water), and had ruined the atmosphere. The impact of the comet could have also knocked the earth out of its orbit around its original star, so that the earth was sent hurtling into the darkness of interstellar space, as a "rogue planet" (astronomers estimate that rogue planets in our galaxy could outnumber the stars in our galaxy). Gen. 1:3-2:4 could then refer to God, over a period of six literal, 24-hour days (some 12,000 years ago, at the start of the Neolithic period), miraculously restoring to the earth light, a good atmosphere, dry land, and life, including a race of male and female homo sapiens sapiens, after God had miraculously restored land plants (Gen. 1:11-13) and land animals (Gen. 1:24-25) to the earth.
Then, only about 6,000 years ago, God miraculously created on the earth an individual male homo sapiens sapiens named Adam in an uninhabited desert land (Gen. 2:5-7; there, the original Hebrew word translated as "earth" can simply refer to a certain "land": e.g. Gen. 2:11). After that, God planted the plants of the local, Garden of Eden in that desert land (Gen. 2:8-9) and God placed Adam in that garden (Gen. 2:15). After that, God miraculously created the animals of the Garden of Eden (Gen. 2:19). After that, God miraculously created in the Garden of Eden an individual female homo sapiens sapiens (Gen. 2:22) whom Adam named Eve (Gen. 3:20).
Because Adam was created only about 6,000 years ago, but there are homo sapiens sapiens fossils said to be as old as about 200,000 years, God could have first created homo sapiens sapiens (or it could have evolved by God's created process of evolution) as far back as about 200,000 years. Also, all the different hominid forms the fossils of which long predate or are as old as the earliest fossils of homo sapiens sapiens, and which preceding or coexisting hominid forms we don't consider to have been fully human like us (such as homo sapiens neanderthalensis), could have all been created by God (or could have evolved by God's created process of evolution) over millions of years prior to the first appearance of homo sapiens sapiens on the earth.
3. Homosexuality has been proven to be genetic
Even if it could be, so could be alcoholism, criminal violence, and schizophrenia. Human genes in their current, fallen, corrupted state have nothing to do with proving what is moral or what is good mental health.
