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In order for creationism to compete with scientific theories like evolution, creationism needs to be able to explain how God made stuff.
In my experience not only do creationists lack that sort of explanation, but most aren't even interested in trying to find out.
Actually, our ability to find out is the evidence for a rational Creator and us being His image.It's beyond our ability to find out.
Certainly not with that attitude.
You mean scientific evidence.Then you are a creationist. You are merely not a YEC.
You may not realize this but creationists, Old Earth or Young Earth, have not been able to come up with any scientific evidence for their beliefs. So far all of the evidence supports evolution and only evolution. The point of the OP was that for creationism to be taken seriously in any of its forms that creationists must find a way to find evidence for their beliefs.
When the YEC adherents can convincingly argue against God's geographical scripture of trees and rocks, the bones of the Earth, then they will be taken seriously.
To have a right understanding of sin you do.But these words of Jesus or of Paul are not exactly the Gospel... only some theological explanations of some aspects.
The Gospel is: "The kingdom of God is coming!" and you do not need to believe in instant creation to believe this.
What!A very enchanting being that spoke in terms of the scientific method.
The KJV translates Strong's H5172 in the following manner: enchantment (4x), divine (2x), enchanter (1x), indeed (1x), certainly (1x), learn by experience (1x), diligently observe (1x).
Outline of Biblical Usage [?]
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
to practice divination, divine, observe signs, learn by experience, diligently observe, practice fortunetelling, take as an omen
- (Piel)
- to practice divination
- to observe the signs or omens
נָחַשׁ nâchash, naw-khash'; a primitive root; properly, to hiss, i.e. whisper a (magic) spell; generally, to prognosticate:—× certainly, divine, enchanter, (use) × enchantment, learn by experience, × indeed, diligently observe.
Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon [?]
He affirmed that Adam and Noah were real.Paul was not in the Gospels. And Jesus very often used literary tools in his preaching.
Sure. I'm no scientist and you know much more than I ever will....but HOW were these nucleotides arranged? By chance?This has to do with Emergent Properties.
It is a concept that explains how properties arise in formations of components even if the property is absence in the individual components.
In the case of DNA, the "information" perceived therein is due to the arrangement of the nucleotide bases.
I believe that, too, but it's still something known through faith, not through science.And how much faith does a person have who believes that but doesn't believe that the same person who died for us is the one John says "Through him nothing was made that was made?"
To have a right understanding of sin you do.
Doesn’t need to.They may have been. But that doesn't tell us anything about the literary genre of the various Genesis texts.
What!
See Genesis 3:1 and 3:4
Strong's Concordance
nachash: a serpent
Original Word: נָחָשׁ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: nachash
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-khawsh')
Definition: a serpent
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from an unused word
Definition
a serpent
NASB Translation
serpent (24), serpent's (2), serpents (2), snake (1).
And maybe you could upgrade from the KJV?
Which also uses the word SERPENT BTW.
Sure. I'm no scientist and you know much more than I ever will....but HOW were these nucleotides arranged? By chance?
I can't accept that. It's just too complicated.
It's a language, like a computer language.
Computer language was invented by someone....
I do believe DNA language also had to be invented by someone/thing.
Can you demonstrate what you mean?To have a right understanding of sin you do.
I believe that, too, but it's still something known through faith, not through science.
But it does seem, if I remember, that the FIRST HUMAN was found to be a woman in Africa...not sure.
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