RE: A Creationist answered 10 questions . . .
December 11, 2015 at 1:14 pm
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1) Do you understand the difference between science and faith?
I know that in Science by definition requires faith in All theories until the theory changes yet again.
And in God only the smallest measure of faith is required to be given absolute proof of God.
2)
If Noah really lived for 900 years, do you realize that means he lived for nearly 1/6 of the time you claim the world has existed?
The bible makes no claims as to how old the planet is. You are describing a man made doctrine. One that does not require belief, in order to believe in Creation.
3) If God could create the Earth in 6 days, why couldn’t he have just given Noah an ark instead of making him build one? I agree with the original answer in part. In that god could have given Noah the Ark. But that would have gone against the reason God saved humanity. In that it was the faith of Noah that made him righteous before God, and subsequently the reason why Humanity through noah should be saved.. Faith that played out over the time span and all the hard work noah spent in building the ark.
4) If humans and dinosaurs roamed the Earth at the same time, why don’t we ever find their bones in the same places?
they have!
http://www.discoverynews.us/DISCOVERY%20...trata.html
http://www.dinosaurc14ages.com/footprints.htm
http://ianjuby.org/examining-the-delk-track/
There are many more instances to be found that provides evidence of Dinos and Humans coexisting, but the point I making here falls back on the first question and the comment I made about science requiring large amounts of faith. Now to look at evidence found especially in the discovery news article and if you are still hang on to your theory without fairly questioning what you believe along with said evidence, is proof of your faith.
5) About 97% of scientists (if not more) follow every rule written in science books. Exactly 0% of creationists follow every rule that’s written in the Bible. If you so wholeheartedly believe the Bible gives a word for word account of how old the Earth is, why don’t you follow every other rule that’s inside? ...Because Christianity is not about obeying rules. It is about What God did to free us from said rules as a means to our final state of righteousness.
6) Since the age of the Earth and evolution are as scientifically accepted as gravity and photosynthesis – are you then denying the existence of gravity and photosynthesis?
"Evolution" is just one
narrative that posits an explaination concerning the fossil record. We have no proof of MACRO Evolution. Unlike gravity and photosynthesis. (Evolution is a non falsifiable narrative)
Even if Dinos are 100 bazillion years old we have no 'proof' they evolved. All we have are newer fossils that are different from supposedly much much older ones. Again the popular narrative says they evolved, a much simpler explaination is that we are simply looking at a different sub species of the same or similar animal. It's like finding a 6000 year old duck skeleton and a 2000 year old swan, and if both were extinct and we knew nothing of ducks and swans, some d-bag looking to make a name for himself could claim it only took 4000 or 400000000 (the time frame is irrelevant) years for one to evolve into another. the point being with out a complete catalog of all known animals on the planet for each and every supposed time period in which major 'evolutionary changes occurred" one is operating off pure faith that the narrative of evolution is indeed 100% correct.
7) Has any creationist ever seen the original copy of the Bible? Then how do you know what it really said? The evidence for the Bible is more compelling than any other historical fact! There are over 300,000 parts of the OT and entire books that date back to 100 BC. I’m sure you don’t doubt the Homer wrote the Illiad, but there are only 86 copies of it dating to 1000 AD (he wrote it in 100 BC; so how do we really know what is in it? We have parts of the NT from 125 AD and whole copies of the Bible from around 325 AD. The lack of whole copies of the Bible before that are because of a Nazi-like strategy of the Roman empire to burn them! How typical! But we have 50,000 complete copies of the NT dating from 1000 BC. That evidence blows everything else out of the water. If you believe anything at all, it has thousands of times less evidence than the Bible. And that is a scientific observable fact!
I like this guys answer for that one
8) If God determines when we live and die, why are humans living longer due to advances in medical scientific research? I guess we are nowhere near living 900 years now are we? Science has a long way to go to get to that stage now doesn’t it? Still we have people living on average 70 years as the Bible says. Some very fat and out of shape people live well into their 90’s and people with little body fat die in their 50’s. Can you explain that scientifically?
I like this answer too.
I have a guy who works for me who is 78 and 300+ lbs. He has always ate drank and smoked whatever he wanted, and still does. No strokes, heart attacks, or prolonged hospital stays. His dad was fit and died at 60 and mom died at 72. Then I've got another guy who use to do iron man competitions, bike across the state, who was always crazy fit and active always watched what he ate never drank or did drugs. His body is shutting down/stopped making red blood cells. everyone in his family has lived to be almost 100...
The point I am making here is we do not have the keys to our mortality, and to think we do is beyond a leap of faith even with our best 'science.' This question is stupid and based on a sterotype that did not apply to first century man. the following article references first century historian who catalog groups of men commonly living past their 100s.
http://www.preventingtruthdecay.org/firs...pans.shtml
9) Hundreds of years ago people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, until science proved them completely wrong. Science now tells us how old the Earth is, and the truth about evolution, yet you still want to cling to the same level of ignorance as those from centuries ago? It was the "scientists" that believe the earth was the center of the universe. Yet it was the book of Job, written around 1440 BC probably by Moses, and who lived hundreds of years before that during the time of the earliest humans told us that “God hung the earth in nothing.” Wow! Apparently people from the 4th century BC were much more knowledgeable and scientifically accurate than scientists from the dark ages!
Dude got it right again, so I'm going with his answer again!
10) Can you accurately predict, based on the “science” within the Bible, any event that will occur in the near future? Can you, by science of any kind, predict the future? I'd say here Open the book of revelation and then turn on the news. We can see the pieces of the final days being placed on the board.
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(author) —– I would have some sort of witty response for these answers, but I think they speak for themselves.
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I think if the author could 'have witty answers' he would have.. How many times do you guy let perceived opportunities to make a believer look bad, go? Especially when you can get an "at a boy" from your peers?