Do You Believe in a 'Young Earth'?

[jameseb]

Hey gals and guys,

I'm just curious what the general population of 'Singles' believes in regard to the Biblical account of earth's creation - do you believe in the literal interpretation, or subscribe to theories such as Old Earth Creation, Gap Theory, your own personal theory, etc.?

I'd be interested in hearing your different thoughts on the subject!

Thanks!

 

[Riot Riot Riot]

You mean the Earth isn't made of chocolate???

Dang.

 

[broken_one]

The planet is millions of years old.

 

[CrusaderKing]

Nope. I don't believe in a young Earth.

 

[smacky ramone]

I wasn't there to see the earth made, so I can't vouch for anything. Besides, I wonder what the earth was like as a teenager. Probably moody with violent eruptions and acne. It probably wanted to stay up past its curfew.

 

[Thunder Peel]

What do you define as "young"?

 

[Trashionista]

Heavens, no. But my last name isn't Duggar, either.

 

[Obzocky]

Given my profession I generally follow the theory which has the most supporting evidence.

 

[Riot Riot Riot]

I believe that God created the earth in 6 literal days.
What the Bible says is absolute truth.
God is God. He can do anything He wants, when He wants, and take however long He wants doing it.
Just because it doesn't even begin to make sense in our puny human minds doesn't mean that it must be inaccurate. Our understanding of the ways of this universe is small and ridiculously pathetic.
We'll never fully understand God's way of working, and I don't think we're meant to.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[Rhamiel]

not really
nor do i really trust that the earth is 4.54 billion years old either
i mean it could be, but we just seem to be way too sure that it is

I think that using science to test anything that far removed is trickey at best

really I do not worry about it, I think the earth is very old, probably somewhere around 4 billion or so, and that theistic evolution is how life came about, the events in Genesis after the Fall are pretty much historical

 

[Rhamiel]

I believe that God created the earth in 6 literal days.
What the Bible says is absolute truth.
God is God. He can do anything He wants, when He wants, and take however long He wants doing it.
Just because it doesn't even begin to make sense in our puny human minds doesn't mean that it must be inaccurate. Our understanding of the ways of this universe is small and ridiculously pathetic.
We'll never fully understand God's way of working, and I don't think we're meant to.

Just my 2 cents.

i do not think anyone would argue that He could not do it in 6 days

 

[Stravinsk]

In short, yes: Young earth 6-10k years old. 6 literal days of Creation time + 1 literal day of Rest. Dating methods that are supposed to show the earth is millions of years old simply cannot be corroborated without time travel.

 

[leothelioness]

I voted no.

I think science basically tells us what God hasn't otherwise revealed. God didn't reveal the age of the Earth in the Bible, but He has allowed man through science to figure that out.

 

[Thunder Peel]

I've always held a Young Earth view. I'm more inclined to believe the Word of God than I am scientists who can never agree on an actual age or give any solid evidence to back up their claims.

 

[K9_Trainer]

No.

 

[jameseb]

What do you define as "young"?

Let's say, >10,000 years?

 

[jameseb]

In short, yes: Young earth 6-10k years old. 6 literal days of Creation time + 1 literal day of Rest. Dating methods that are supposed to show the earth is millions of years old simply cannot be corroborated without time travel.

I'm with you on this, though I didn't always believe this. However, things that have happened, and changed, in science over the past 20 years has got me thinking twice about it now.

Take for instance the soft tissue discovered in a supposedly 65 million year old T-Rex thigh bone a few years back. Science before then had concluded that soft tissue couldn't survive past 10,000 years.

Add that something someone pointed out on CF earlier when they quoted Luke where even Christ referred to Noah... made me start thinking maybe science hasn't gotten it all right.

Besides, we know how science discards and adopts new theories all the time.

 

[MacFall]

I wasn't there to see the earth made, so I can't vouch for anything. Besides, I wonder what the earth was like as a teenager. Probably moody with violent eruptions and acne. It probably wanted to stay up past its curfew.

This.

But seriously, we don't know. Neither do geologists, physicists, paleontologists, or any other ologists. I'm an Old Earth Creationist myself. I believe that the "days" of creation were figurative epochs. I don't think that science has accurately determined the age of anything past a few thousand years, so it could very well be younger than they think by several orders of magnitude. But I also don't believe in a trickster god who deliberately misleads people into wrong belief. If the Earth appears to be very old, it probably is. True, God's works confound the wise. But that is because they think they are wiser than they are, not because God is secretly a Loki or a Puck.

 

[Riot Riot Riot]

I'm with you on this, though I didn't always believe this. However, things that have happened, and changed, in science over the past 20 years has got me thinking twice about it now.

Take for instance the soft tissue discovered in a supposedly 65 million year old thigh bone. Science before then had concluded that soft tissue couldn't survive past 10,000 years.

Add that something someone pointed out on CF earlier when they quoted Luke where even Christ referred to Noah... made me start thinking maybe science hasn't gotten it all right.

Besides, we know how science discards and adopts new theories all the time.

^This.

The way I see it: If we can't take God's creation account for truth and trust and believe fully that it is the absolute truth, then what CAN we believe and trust?
Mere human scientists who are always creating new theories? Humans have such small brain power compared to God! We don't even come CLOSE!

I don't know about you, but I'd rather put stock in an all-knowing, all-powerful God than an ever-erring human who can't even make up their mind about what soda they want from a pop machine... let alone their stance on important issues.

 

[AuburnMeg]

I'm of the Progressive Creationism camp, which is Old Earth. So...no on Young Earth.