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What do you believe regarding creation and evolution?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nathan Poe" data-source="post: 995645" data-attributes="member: 4426"><p>But did He ever tell us how long ago He did it?</p><p> </p><p>Besides, nobody's questioning what God <em>could have </em>done. God <em>could have</em>:</p><p> </p><p>--Done it all exactly as it's described in the Book of Genesis</p><p> </p><p>--Created a universe 6,000 years old that only <em>looks and acts</em> 14 billion.</p><p> </p><p>--Made the light from the stars before the star themselves so we'd see them sooner.</p><p> </p><p>--Altered, edited, abandoned, and just plain broke any or every law of nature to suit his purpose.</p><p> </p><p>--Created the entire universe fully formed last Tuesday and gave us false memories to make it think it was older.</p><p> </p><p>--Created the universe out of strawberry sherbert which he magically *POOF*ed into whatever other matter he wanted.</p><p> </p><p>--All of the above.</p><p> </p><p>So it's pointless to debate what God <em>could have </em>done. Let's instead look at what we think He <em>actually did.</em></p><p> </p><p>We have two possible ways to find this out:</p><p> </p><p>1: Our own observations and study of the creation all around us, which changes and grows as we learn more, </p><p> </p><p>**OR**</p><p> </p><p>2: A two-thousand-year-old collection of stories, poetry, and mythology written by people who claim to have been "inspired" by God, compiled as a result of an early church vote, and passed down and interpreted for thousands of years, through a myriad of translations, into the hands of various sects and schizms, each of which claims that <em>their</em> interpetation is infallibly right, and all the others have it wrong?</p><p> </p><p>Hmmm.... Somebody tell Monty Hall that I'll take what's behind Door #1.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nathan Poe, post: 995645, member: 4426"] But did He ever tell us how long ago He did it? Besides, nobody's questioning what God [i]could have [/i]done. God [i]could have[/i]: --Done it all exactly as it's described in the Book of Genesis --Created a universe 6,000 years old that only [i]looks and acts[/i] 14 billion. --Made the light from the stars before the star themselves so we'd see them sooner. --Altered, edited, abandoned, and just plain broke any or every law of nature to suit his purpose. --Created the entire universe fully formed last Tuesday and gave us false memories to make it think it was older. --Created the universe out of strawberry sherbert which he magically *POOF*ed into whatever other matter he wanted. --All of the above. So it's pointless to debate what God [i]could have [/i]done. Let's instead look at what we think He [i]actually did.[/i] We have two possible ways to find this out: 1: Our own observations and study of the creation all around us, which changes and grows as we learn more, **OR** 2: A two-thousand-year-old collection of stories, poetry, and mythology written by people who claim to have been "inspired" by God, compiled as a result of an early church vote, and passed down and interpreted for thousands of years, through a myriad of translations, into the hands of various sects and schizms, each of which claims that [i]their[/i] interpetation is infallibly right, and all the others have it wrong? Hmmm.... Somebody tell Monty Hall that I'll take what's behind Door #1. [/QUOTE]
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