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So can the Genesis be infallible and inerrant history?

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There are NO facts and evidence that are available to oppose God creating the world, and life.

From strawberry custard.

There is no science ABLE to determine how it was done.

meaning the strawberry custard is still on the table, so to speak.

For much of history, and for billions throughout history, yes, God is the default. For a lost minority, groping in the dark, it may not be, but since you are bankrupt of alternatives that have the least merit, who cares?

Choose God as the default! All the cool kids are doing it!
 
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From strawberry custard.



meaning the strawberry custard is still on the table, so to speak.



Choose God as the default! All the cool kids are doing it!
God is the default. Don't be sore just because science is neutered on the issue of creation, and Darwin dumb as a dog.
 
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Nothing actually. But I can interpret them to tell me whatever I want to hear.

Yes, I fully realize you can interpret various things to tell you what you want to hear.

In regards to accepting facts, but them telling you nothing is puzzling. Usually, a person will not accept something as a fact, if the fact tells you nothing. How can you accept it as a fact, if it tells you nothing?
 
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I wouldn't worry Dad, I'm sure everyone who disagrees with you will sleep fine tonight.

Not so -- the sound of dad gnashing his teeth in frustration and envy tends to keep people awake.
 
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Then you shouldn't use any modern medicine dad, because it has it's roots in the Theory of Evolution.
False. It may involve the concept that things evolve...but that is a created trait. Nothing to do with the morbid dreams of Darweenism.
 
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Then you shouldn't use any modern medicine dad, because it has it's roots in the Theory of Evolution.

That's absurd. Medicine had it's roots in history long before the theory of evolution was around. Jewish medicine is even based on some books from the Jewish bible.

Modern medicine uses testable and repeatable processes. Evolution theory has nothing to do with it.

"Modern scientific biomedical research (where results are testable and reproducible) began to replace early Western traditions based on herbalism, the Greek "four humours" and other such pre-modern notions. The modern era really began with Edward Jenner's discovery of the smallpox vaccine at the end of the 18th century (inspired by the method of inoculation earlier practiced in Asia), Robert Koch's discoveries around 1880 of the transmission of disease by bacteria, and then the discovery of antibiotics around 1900."

Medicine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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Might Genesis be factual?
Factor out the 'faith factor' for just a moment and consider the question logically.
Why not?
It's as good an explanation of origins as any other out there.
No one alive now was alive 'back then' so nobody knows for sure.
Theories are just stories plus agenda.
Factor back in the 'faith factor' and some know whom they trust.
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Were you there to see that God had a hand in the writing of any of the words in Genesis? What about to see if they recorded anything real, and if so, did so with accuracy?

We do have reasonable ideas as to how stars and planets come to be, how mountains and rivers form, even how humans came to be. The ideas are testable as well.

We have not proven those ideas to be true, that's beyond our grasp. But we can show them to be good ideas that stand up to scientific testing and subsequent modification if need be.
 
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Why would anyone think that (all) the Bible is mythology?

On the other hand, do you think that rain falls because God speaks to it, telling it to fall, that physical forces have nothing to do with it, or that God physically knits babies in the womb, and we have no idea how babies form - just because the Bible makes these claims?
 
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Why would anyone think that (all) the Bible is mythology?

On the other hand, do you think that rain falls because God speaks to it, telling it to fall, that physical forces have nothing to do with it, or that God physically knits babies in the womb, and we have no idea how babies form - just because the Bible makes these claims?
There is an angel God put in charge of the air, or atmosphere and weather of earth apparently. In the Tribulation, that angel changes the whole thing, and we get hailstones 100 pounds each. So of course God set up the present state we live in, and He can change it whenever He wants. Satan also has some control over weather such as when he was allowed to hit Job, and blew down his house.
 
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