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You might be a statistical outlier.I fit his profile, too, but I'm not left handed. So much for that dissertation topic.
I've asked creationists repeatedly over the years how God created living species. Yet I have found that creationists are unable to provide an answer to that (outside of vague reference to supernatural powers).
But at the same time, creationists insist God could not have done so via evolution.
So if we don't have an explanation for how God created living species, why couldn't God have used evolution? Why explicitly rule that out?
There is no surprise that the first part is never answered, as it is irrelevant, I do not and I think others do not know details about how evolution was working according to the claims about that, while certainly what unlimited God is doing would not be understood. That the process of the Creator creating all the cells with the genetic materials with the needed codes and the organelles together with all others in organized systems for living organisms is not understood is not basis to deny that, or the same basis would be enough to deny evolution, as the details of that are not understood either. This is all irrelevant.
What is relevant is whether God could create through evolution. God's unlimited power and ability to create would not be limited to not be able to do that. When I was younger and familiar with texts speaking of evolution as I was learning from education I was thinking of theistic evolution. Being a believer did come to create problems with that, as it would be basis to disbelieve other points of Christianity, and it remained that way until I was reading a material that was showing the basis of evolution was full of gaps, that involved assumptions to fill those in. So since then evolution remained in doubt for me, and I trusted things of God more.
But I check here just in case there are things I missed considering.
Why might it be ruled out? I can believe the world was created perfectly, with no problems, just like I can believe in Heaven, and there was the fall with human rebellion that brought in the curse, which then spreads through the world with ongoing rebellion and harm being done, so the world has been corrupted, with death being a great part of how things work now.
I really don't understand what you're trying to say.
I think he means that given the choice (as a Christian) between two incomprehensible theories regarding creation he is more comfortable with the bible account than with the scientific account.
Except that the theory of evolution isn't incomprehensible, and there is absolutely nothing stopping a person from believing that God created everything through the processes that we see through investigation of His creation.
Anything else is idolatry of the Bible.
I don't think man has the mental capacity to drink either theory all in. Most simply believe one or the other and spare themselves the headache.
Except that theistic evolution is a thing, so your explanation doesn't really hold water.
Most Christians believe both. Because man does indeed have the mental capacity to understand--except for those who are biased against knowledge and learning difficult things.I don't think man has the mental capacity to drink either theory all in. Most simply believe one or the other and spare themselves the headache.
Granted, there are exceptions.
Most Christians believe both. Because man does indeed have the mental capacity to understand--except for those who are biased against knowledge and learning difficult things.
I imagine that theistic evolution is more the rule than the exception and it's the creationists that are the exception.
That could be true as well.
Still no good explanation for why creationists say God is somehow powerful enough to make the universe but so powerless as to say that creating things through evolution is beyond him though.
Who says that?
No, compare the number of Christians worldwide (over two billion) with the number of creationists (not more than a hundred million at the outside).That's a pretty broad brush yer swingin' there.
Creationists. As I said in the post you quoted and also in the OP and also in abundance on this forum.
No, compare the number of Christians worldwide (over two billion) with the number of creationists (not more than a hundred million at the outside).
God can do anything he wants. Creationists take his written word as fact, that's all.
I agree. The only thing which might keep creationists out of heaven is their attitude towards Christians who are not creationists.Jesus did say, "Fear not little flock..."
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