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Why are some Christians anti Evolution?

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Some things require age in order to function in harmony with other things that aren't as old (or older).

You can't make everything the same age and expect them to work together.

So God faked the age. Got it.
 
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.. the point is to troll a Christian forum trying to trap Christians into saying something that is contradictory so you can give yourself a big pat on the back in front of your fellow atheist piers. Sorry it didn’t work.
Do you forget this is a debating forum .. and not some kind of Kumbaya pow-wow?
 
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Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
Well while he does that, my mind does all the thinking. What's 'right' then is a matter of personal choice, once that thinking process is complete.
 
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So it's some kind of a test??? God made the world look old in order to test our faith in the literal inerrancy of Genesis?
 
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Well while he does that, my mind does all the thinking. What's 'right' then is a matter of personal choice, once that thinking process is complete.
Do you realize the first ten amendments to our constitution insure that no pogrom will occur legally on U.S. soil?
 
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So it's some kind of a test??? God made the world look old in order to test our faith in the literal inerrancy of Genesis?

Pretty much -- "Believe nothing of what you see, only believe what you are told."

Pretty standard recipe for unquestioning followers.
 
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Only if you would put whole grapes into bread and call it "raisin bread."

Aren't you the one who claims that a creationist shouldn't venture outside Genesis 1-2?
 
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Then what is your above response supposed to mean?
 
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It’s a trick question that I’ve heard before.
There's no trick - it's an ancient philosophical/theological logical dilemma based on the choice between divine command theory and objective moral standards (universal or absolute morality). It's
I'm curious which you believe because both have problems for traditional concepts of God.

If I said that it’s good because God does it then you could proceed to say that God can do evil and it would be good because He did it.
No - the whole point of divine command theory is that there is no good and evil beyond what God says or does - What He says and does is good by definition, what is contrary to that is evil by definition, and what humans might feel about it is irrelevant.

I never rejected that God defines what is good, you claim it can’t be both ways which I disagree. God does define what is good and His Holy character doesn’t allow Him to do evil.
If God defines what is good by His character, i.e. what He says and does, then He can't say or do evil, by definition; evil is anything contrary to what He says and does.

The point of the question is to find out what you believe is the source of moral values, and to see what you think about the implications of that belief. If you think that's trolling, so be it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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In fact he is quite correct, the object he holds is topologically equivalent to a square.
Can God show using topological equivalence, the mathematician is not holding up a square?
The answer is no.
It's like God trying to show 1+1=3.

That would be silly. Everyone knows 1+1 = 10.
 
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