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It stands for Young Earth Creationists, a name applied to people like me and, I think, you, that the universe is not billions of years old, but was created by God just a few thousand years ago.I have to ask, who are the YEC's ?
It stands for Young Earth Creationists, a name applied to people like me and, I think, you, that the universe is not billions of years old, but was created by God just a few thousand years ago.
So am I.Thanks David, if this is the case I'm with the YEC's
So am I.
That is because 13.7 billion years with a margin of error at 200 million, or 15 billion years to 11.5 billion with a margin of error at 1 billion which less than 30 years ago was definitely bettween 7 and 20 billion years, which should have maybe been 26 billion years all along, just is not certainty at all. It is the best modern science can manage, and should be respected as such, but it really is not certainty. Not to mention numbers that high are so abstract that even the people who believe them cannot actually imagine it.I don't understand these People who claim the earth is billions of years old, the mind boggles
This is where you appear to be implying that there is something much smarter in modern science than there was in the world 6000 years ago.That's why you're not a scientist.
James Hutton and a number of Christian geologists aligned, making up scientific consensus on an old earth, back in the 1800s.That is because 13.7 billion years with a margin of error at 200 million, or 15 billion years to 11.5 billion with a margin of error at 1 billion which less than 30 years ago was definitely bettween 7 and 20 billion years, which should have maybe been 26 billion years all along, just is not certainty at all. It is the best modern science can manage, and should be respected as such, but it really is not certainty. Not to mention numbers that high are so abstract that even the people who believe them cannot actually imagine it.
The Bible doesn't suggest a young earth. As noted before, it describes an ancient Israelite cosmology.This is where you appear to be implying that there is something much smarter in modern science than there was in the world 6000 years ago.
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1-1
"Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit." Psalm 147-5
"Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!" Romans 11-33
"Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made." John 1-3
All Bible verses NIV
For what scientists actually know, indeed more importantly do not know, I posted about it in #105. A person does not have to be a scientist to understand that the Creator of the Universe is wiser in mind boggling proportions to every single thing our fancy telescopes and hopeless little minds can come up with. Look at the mess we are making - space junk.
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"Smarter" is not a suitable word. Let us rather call it "more advanced".This is where you appear to be implying that there is something much smarter in modern science than there was in the world 6000 years ago.
That also assumes a global flood, which I do not.
I believe the Bible's version of it:So you don't believe the Bible's version of it ?
Arguing that God is smarter than scientists is meaningless. Because God doesn't express a young earth in the Bible.
No no. He made the earth in 6 days.He made the earth in six days & rested on the seventh
Once again you've shown not to believe in God's word.
I would say that it is the people who believe that the flood was global, who do not believe the Bible's version of it.
No need to troll me. I'm not a flat earther.The deluge drowned the flat earth and all that was on it, how could the water have flooded a ball ? Impossible .........
Actually on that note, early church fathers such as Saint Augustine also doubted the existence of antipodes. Or people that lived upside down on the other side of the earth.The deluge drowned the flat earth and all that was on it, how could the water have flooded a ball ? Impossible .........
But the Bible doesn't say how long the earth was formless and empty before he began making it in 6 days.
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