Christian Explanation

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I am a young earth creationist and think that the fossil record (or at least the bulk of it as I would not rule out some of it being the result of local catastrophic events) is a result of the flood of the Bible. God and the Bible as the word of God are my starting point for my analysis of reality. Observational science is really good for explaining the universe that God created and I have not seen nor heard of a scientific observation that would necessarily contradict the Bible. To a very large degree, historical science, particularly as it relates to origins, is taking observations and extrapolating to the unobserved past and, therefore, the conclusions reached by scientists will reflect their own bias and presuppositions. So insofar as the conclusions/interpretations made by these scientists conflict with the Bible...I will go with the Bible. I think that this world view explains reality better and is more consistent than any other world view. Are there still questions that I can't answer? Certainly, but I think there are unanswerable questions for any world view.

As for me I am a theistic evolutionist. The bible obviously needs to be interpreted in some way since if it wasn't one would get alot of funny ideas (eg: if you didnt read psalms knowing what poetry is it could be difficult). I also think that I should interpret the bible to the best of my knowledge, and this includes science. Science tells us the big bang happened and that the world is old therefore Genesis cannot be literal. For me I think there is much more meaning in Genesis if you dont take it literally.

I see what you are saying about extrapolating what they see now, but I think there is more to it then that. The big bang theory predicts what the universe should look like if it is true, and the universe does look like that prediction.