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You do know that humans have been walking the earth before Christ right? And yes no matter what you believe Jesus was a man who walked the earth. It's been proven. Christians just believe that He was who He said He was,.. but that's a whole different subject.
Well how long ago do you think creation was?
You mean when the earth was created or when people were created?
People. We're talking the morphology. Doesn't matter if the earth is billions of years old and God just plopped humans a 6 thousand years ago.
Just curious but where are you getting the six thousand number from?
I don't know what you mean by another type of "animal," but if you mean species--yes they do. We have mountains of proof for this.Animals do adapt to their environment, but they will not change so much as to become another kind of animal.
Some atheists do believe that some Christians accept evolution. I know because they use that as a part of their intellectual armoury to attack those who accept the Bible's creation account.I was just wondering because I saw this video and evolution doesn't necessarily revolve around the fact that monkeys turned into humans. So I really want to hear your insight on this. (Although I agree with the fact that religion should never be forced on anybody.)
That's around the number I see creationists use.
Interesting, but we're only in the two thousands era and humans have been alive for much longer than six thousand years. That's only a few more thousand than the year that we're in now.
Some atheists do believe that some Christians accept evolution. I know because they use that as a part of their intellectual armoury to attack those who accept the Bible's creation account.
The modern creationism movement (along with the idea of taking every word of Genesis as literal history) actually didn't gain much traction until the mid 19th century, when a woman named Ellen White claimed to receive visions from God telling her as much. She would later go on to found the Seventh-Day Adventist movement. Not being SDA, I do not accept her as a prophet, or believe she had any kind of special spiritual insight.
Unlike many of the other SDA doctrines, like non-Trinitarianism, observation of Saturday as the Sabbath, and keeping Kosher, Biblical literalism became popular among other Christian denominations. I'd wager that many creationists don't know how and who really popularized these ideas.
Of course I'm not saying that there were no literalists before Mrs. White, but they were a minor fringe. Most Christians at the time viewed the first several chapters of Genesis as largely allegorical.
Again, this is all speculation as there were no cameras back then and none of us were around to know what humans looked like.
Yes. There are plenty of Christians who accept evolution. Perhaps even a majority of them.
For instance, the Catholic priests who taught me middle school and high school biology all accepted evolution as the best scientific explanation for the state of life on the planet.
Even when I was Catholic, creationism was just a weird idea to me, and young earth creationism was comical.
Imagine my surprise visiting the US when I discovered that these weren't just fringe of the fringe beliefs.
Some atheists do believe that some Christians accept evolution. I know because they use that as a part of their intellectual armoury to attack those who accept the Bible's creation account.
I'm almost certain Jesus would disagree with you.Of course I'm not saying that there were no literalists before Mrs. White, but they were a minor fringe.
Yeah, but I'm asking you how long do you think it's been since God created man?
Sure we do. We have their skulls and modern skulls. We can compare them.
We also have some DNA from those old skeletons. We can identify genes responsible for some external traits and know that they had similar hair and eyes to some modern humans.
Yes, but we still don't know exactly what they looked like.
I don't know, I recently heard a million years or so in a video of when humans first appeared on the earth. Sounds about right.
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