Origins of Life Theory

Well, here they are in a nutshell:

Atheistic Evolution: Evolution as science teachers taught you in school.

Theistic Evolution: The species arose because of evolution, but God was behind it and directing it all.

Young Earth Creation: If I'm right, I think this means that you believe the earth was made just like it says in Genesis, and that the 7 days was literally seven days. According to this, the earth is only about 6,000 years old.

Old Earth Creation: This means you believe that the earth was made like it says in Genesis, but the 7 days was figurative. They believe that it acctually took 1000's of years for the earth to be created, and the earth is much older than 6,000 years.

Gap Theory: You're guess Is as good as mine. I have no idea what the "gap theory" is.

Hope this helps!
Jedi_Christian

Well done, Jedi_Christian!

Gap theory says there's a loooong gap between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2, so the 6 days were 6000 years ago, but the earth itself is older. Some versions of gap theory say there was a previous creation, which was destroyed, and the 6 days were a "second creation."

I think it's a very strange idea, but some people believe it.

-- Radagast

Lots of new scientific evidence is pointing to a much younger universe and not only the earth. Here is a link with a few articles:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/young.asp

These links have some interesting information too:
http://www.carm.org/evarchive.htm

http://www.how-old-is-the-earth.com/

http://www.icr.org/ (use search engine here for topic you want)

I don't think this is the place for debate between the options, or the relative merits of various people's science.

Given the options in the OP:

1. Young Earth Creation
2. Old Earth Creation
3. Gap Theory
4. Theistic Evolution
5. Atheistic Evolution

there are Christians who accept 1, 2, 3, and 4, but not 5.

-- Radagast

raphe said:

Lots of new scientific evidence is pointing to a much younger universe and not only the earth. Here is a link with a few articles:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/young.asp

These links have some interesting information too:
http://www.carm.org/evarchive.htm

http://www.how-old-is-the-earth.com/

http://www.icr.org/ (use search engine here for topic you want)

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Or you could go somewhere that doesn't fill your head full of lies, distortions, misquotes and nonsense, like say www.talkorigins.org