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Questioning Darwin
February 17, 2014 at 1:03 pm
I just saw "Questioning Darwin" on HBO pretty much what I expected except for one thing. They said 46 % of people believe the creation story. This can't be true, aren't we living in the 21 century? I would like some Christians on this forum to please explain to me ( if they do believe in the creation story) how they can ignore evidence like a very old Earth, or how they can just dismiss evolution without really knowing what it is.
I thought, foolishly the numbers would be like 10% believe in the creation story not 46%. WTF
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RE: Questioning Darwin
February 17, 2014 at 1:05 pm
In other places in the world, the numbers are drastically lower. In America, though, we cling to ignorance like a fly clings to shit.
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RE: Questioning Darwin
February 17, 2014 at 1:40 pm
(February 17, 2014 at 1:03 pm)Manowar Wrote: how they can ignore evidence like a very old Earth, or how they can just dismiss evolution without really knowing what it is.
You see, there's this book...
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RE: Questioning Darwin
February 17, 2014 at 2:28 pm
What evidence for evolution? Everyone knows that piltdown man was a fake. 
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RE: Questioning Darwin
February 17, 2014 at 2:38 pm
I was also suprised when i heard that something like 46% of Americans believe in creationism, because i live in Serbia and nobody here even knows what creationism is
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RE: Questioning Darwin
February 17, 2014 at 2:50 pm
I never thought I'd see the day when I would be envious of Serbians.
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RE: Questioning Darwin
February 17, 2014 at 4:30 pm
(February 17, 2014 at 1:03 pm)Manowar Wrote: I just saw "Questioning Darwin" on HBO pretty much what I expected except for one thing. They said 46 % of people believe the creation story. This can't be true, aren't we living in the 21 century? I would like some Christians on this forum to please explain to me ( if they do believe in the creation story) how they can ignore evidence like a very old Earth, or how they can just dismiss evolution without really knowing what it is.
I thought, foolishly the numbers would be like 10% believe in the creation story not 46%. WTF
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Not all people who believe the the biblical story of creation believe in a young earth. Much controversy revolves around the use of the Hebrew word "yom" in the creation account. The Hebrew language had many fewer words than modern day languages and words had multiple meanings. Yom has several meanings, one of which was a 24-hour day. Some other meanings were a point of time or a general vague time, and some others definitions. If yom here means a general vague time, it would allow for an old earth interpretation. Although many creationists do believe in a young earth, many also believe in an old earth.
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RE: Questioning Darwin
February 17, 2014 at 4:47 pm
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RE: Questioning Darwin
February 17, 2014 at 4:56 pm
In western Europe, I believe that about 80% of Christians accept evolution.
But then, they actually teach it in school.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: Questioning Darwin
February 17, 2014 at 6:11 pm
(February 17, 2014 at 4:30 pm)Lek Wrote: Not all people who believe the the biblical story of creation believe in a young earth. Much controversy revolves around the use of the Hebrew word "yom" in the creation account. The Hebrew language had many fewer words than modern day languages and words had multiple meanings. Yom has several meanings, one of which was a 24-hour day. Some other meanings were a point of time or a general vague time, and some others definitions. If yom here means a general vague time, it would allow for an old earth interpretation. Although many creationists do believe in a young earth, many also believe in an old earth.
That's good, but if they took their faces out of the book and looked at the Universe around them, maybe there would be no further confusion.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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