@MusicalElf11
First of all I will try not to launch an ad hominem attack at you. People believe things for good and bad reasons and when you explained your reasoning much of it was unsound. That being said, I'll take your original statement on good faith that you want our answers to a question.
1. Genesis is a sorry written a few thousand years ago. The people who wrote it did not use the same metric of time that we did, but my study of it gives me no reason to believe it was any different then the 24 hours we use today. Of course if it meant sun up to down then if the earth was created before the sun then sun up to down must have no meaning? Since every bit of independently corroborated evidence does not point to that sequence we must assume that this story starts with an error.
2. Multiple lines of evidence all point to approximately 4.5 billion years ago. No single test Is perfect, but multiple independent and reproducible examinations leading to the same conclusion very strongly implies the veracity of it and there I accept it as the most likely explaination.
3 taxonomically we are a genus of ape. That being said again multiple lines of evidence including genetic markers, fossil records, and current mitochondrial DNA evidence all demonstrate this. This is the same techniques used for evaluation of other species of animals and has been verified there and here. Your post on DNA is fundamentally flawed. I understand you are a film major so biology may not have interest to you, however if you want to understand this subject I would suggest evaluating sources that don't have a vested interest in your theological beliefs but rather look at the information as independently as possible.
4. Was a character in a story that all available data indicates is fictional. There fore not historical.
Anyway hope that helps.
First of all I will try not to launch an ad hominem attack at you. People believe things for good and bad reasons and when you explained your reasoning much of it was unsound. That being said, I'll take your original statement on good faith that you want our answers to a question.
1. Genesis is a sorry written a few thousand years ago. The people who wrote it did not use the same metric of time that we did, but my study of it gives me no reason to believe it was any different then the 24 hours we use today. Of course if it meant sun up to down then if the earth was created before the sun then sun up to down must have no meaning? Since every bit of independently corroborated evidence does not point to that sequence we must assume that this story starts with an error.
2. Multiple lines of evidence all point to approximately 4.5 billion years ago. No single test Is perfect, but multiple independent and reproducible examinations leading to the same conclusion very strongly implies the veracity of it and there I accept it as the most likely explaination.
3 taxonomically we are a genus of ape. That being said again multiple lines of evidence including genetic markers, fossil records, and current mitochondrial DNA evidence all demonstrate this. This is the same techniques used for evaluation of other species of animals and has been verified there and here. Your post on DNA is fundamentally flawed. I understand you are a film major so biology may not have interest to you, however if you want to understand this subject I would suggest evaluating sources that don't have a vested interest in your theological beliefs but rather look at the information as independently as possible.
4. Was a character in a story that all available data indicates is fictional. There fore not historical.
Anyway hope that helps.
