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Why are some Christians anti Evolution?

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Then why did you make such an egregious error here:
Could it be that your attitude towards Genesis 1 being mythical, coupled with your attitude that certain terms are "pseudoscience," that it has clouded your thinking?
When you are claiming that the bible talks about photosynthesis and entropy, then you are wandering into the promised land of pseudo science.
 
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How long is a piece of string?
How wide is the breadth of a hand?
 
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Too much education getting in your way.
That seems to be the crux of it.
Education, knowledge, evidence gets in the way of a literal interpretation of the bible.

Does this mean if someone wants to maintain their belief in a literal interpretation that they then must lead a simple life where they avoid education, knowledge and evidence which comes from outside the bible?
 
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No.
 
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Fair enough -- I misremembered "the Earth was without form and void..." As being pre-existing. I should've known God would've had to go back and do it right.
 
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So just saying "God did it" is good enough for you?
I'm not a believer in god. I'm just saying that a person who revers the book and insists on a literal reading, well they shouldn't embellish, they should stick only to what the bible says. If it doesn't say something, they shouldn't just make up an answer, they should be happy just to say, the bible doesn't tell us the details on that.
 
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When you are claiming that the bible talks about photosynthesis and entropy, then you are wandering into the promised land of pseudo science.

More like "down the garden path."
 
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Everybody kows that. And that you made up
the 0.08 and how it was derived.
Are you being deliberately evasive about the
question about what it means that the bible says
some things that are not accurate?

No I didn’t make up the .08”. 1 cubit is 18” 10 cubits is 180” minus the 4” lip or rim on both sides leaves 172” multiplied by pi 3:14 is exactly 540.08 now the circumference was 30 cubits multiplied by 18 equals exactly 540”. That’s how I derived at a .08” discrepancy. It’s not perfect but it’s close enough to call reasonably accurate.
 
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There's no way a flood can account for the patterns of fossils, even if you tried to claim that each global extinction event was due to a separate global flood...

When different sediments of different densities are stirred up in liquid then settle they will form several layers. Not just one layer.
 
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Then you run into people who can't reconcile how Judas died, so then they claim the Bible contradicts Itself.

Sometimes filling in the gaps can help a person understand better.

And in case you haven't seen them before, here are my standards I use in my apologetics:

1. Bible says x, Science says x = go with x
2. Bible says x, Science says y = go with x
3. Bible says x, Science says ø = go with x
4. Bible says ø, Science says x = go with x
5. Bible says ø, Science says ø = free to speculate on your own

Prime Directive: Under no circumstances whatsoever is the Bible to be contradicted.
 
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It takes millions of years for sediment to become rock. So even a brand new rock is going to look millions of years old.
 
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The assumptions behind the numbers are not
 
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It takes millions of years for sediment to become rock. So even a brand new rock is going to look millions of years old.

I thought you said it happens in a day.
 
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Being made in His image don't mean physical image .... we were made with the same type of character as He (perfect in the beginning) but after the fall of mankind now our character (image) is flawed because of sin and sin is transgression of God law and that is why planet earth is in such a mess.
 
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