Combining Evolution and God

[kern]

Originally posted by NRutman

Just some of the rants of a college student,
Nate

Not a science major, I hope.

-Chris

 

[seebs]

Macro evolution is a theory the way heliocentrism is a theory.

 

[Chris†opher Paul]

Originally posted by seebs
Macro evolution is a theory the way heliocentrism is a theory.

What is "heliocentrism"

 

[kern]

Heliocentrism is the belief that the sun is the center of the solar system and that the planets revolve around it. Geocentrism is the old belief that everything revolves around the Earth.

This comes up a lot because there are a fair number of parallels between the old heliocentrism controversy and the modern evolution controversy.

-Chris

 

[Peacebestill]

There is a theory (which I thoroughly disagree with) that tries to link the supposed great age of the earth with creationism called the Gap Theory.

In short the proponents claim that there is a gap of billions of years in between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2.

It is being cussed and discussed at http://pub54.ezboard.com/fdakecommunityfrm1

 

[kern]

There are several theories that try to consolidate old-earth with literal creationism. This is because the evidence for old-earth creation is so overwhelming that people are having a harder and harder time rejecting it (it's not like a board with pegs in it where you can just take out the "old-earth" peg, if you don't accept old-earth creation, you invalidate most of modern geology, palentology, nuclear physics, biology, and other branches of science). So people are starting to fit old-earth creation into a literal creation.

The same thing will happen with evolution before too long.

-Chris