MatthewDiscipleofGod
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There are many scientists with various degrees that believe in a young earth. There are many well respected pastors that believe in a young earth (John MacArthur and etc). That said it doesn't matter what man believes. It matters what God has said. I don't need a Ph.D. to understand the Bible. I could start bragging by saying that I will be completing my 2nd year of Greek, that I go on fossil digs, that I have completed various theological courses and that my wife has her masters degree in ministry from an accredited university but that shouldn't give me any more credit. I want people to compare what I say with what the Bible says. There is a reason God told us in his word:
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
There are many that claim to be wise and look down at those that would disagree because they are "less educated". You have not proven anything to be incorrect and instead do what any evolutionist I talk to does. They resort to saying "the majority says" which is a logical fallacy or claiming "has been proven to be incorrect" which is yet another logical fallacy. Why would one such as yourself use so many logical fallacies in his post?
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
There are many that claim to be wise and look down at those that would disagree because they are "less educated". You have not proven anything to be incorrect and instead do what any evolutionist I talk to does. They resort to saying "the majority says" which is a logical fallacy or claiming "has been proven to be incorrect" which is yet another logical fallacy. Why would one such as yourself use so many logical fallacies in his post?
Believing that God created the earth, the plants, the animals, and man about 6,000 year ago is neither theologically nor scientifically sound. After submitting the Book of Genesis to 200 years of intense analysis through literary, form, and redaction criticism by some of the best educated men on the face of this planet, it has been concluded by the very large majority of Old Testament scholars that the creation stories in Gen. 1-2 were penned by two different writers writing centuries apart from each other and that, if taken literally, contradict each other and are therefore, not accurate accounts of historical events.
In order for any interpretation of the Bible to be correct, it MUST be in harmony with all of the relevant data, and any theology based upon an interpretation that is known for certain to be incorrect is NOT sound theology. Based upon indescribably massive amounts of data, we know today for a certainty that the earth is much older than 6,000 years, and even most of the young-earth creationists now concede that the earth is at least 10,000 years old.
Before my career change, I was an evolutionary biologist and I can say from an exceptionally well informed point of view that the statements made in the above quoted post regarding evolution are absolutely false. Over 99.9% of scientists who have earned at least a Ph.D. in the life or earth sciences from an accredited college or university firmly believe in the theory of evolution, and of the less than .1% the scientists who disagree, not a single one of them is an evolutionary biologist nor do any of them have even a reasonably good knowledge of the mechanisms that allow for and control evolution. They base their beliefs about science upon their unsound theology and a few anomalous pieces of data that they falsely claim prove their beliefs to be correct. That is not science; that is Christian apologetics based upon a system of theology that has been proven to be incorrect.
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