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The "Seven DAYS OF CREATION" is an error in translation, going back to between 1,800 BC to about 5,000 BC. Days denotes "periods of time" rather than 24 hour periods. Those periods of time could well be some 750,000,000 years long. (That's 750 Million) That's plenty of time for life to begin with a single-cell organism to start out in the dirt and evolve into life today. Evolution becomes the instrument of GOD's creation.
I see this all the time, and it is just a grand demonstration of the God of the Gaps. You can feel free to keep editing your holy text and say it was mistranslated, repeatedly and ad infinitum. That doesn't change that, once again, the combined human knowledge in this world has once again pushed back the boundaries of your deity-of-choice. I'd be impressed if you could sit there with a straight face and tell me that people 2000 years ago didn't believe that an elderly father-figure of a god lived in the clouds and watched over people, that they saw it as a metaphorical ethereal presence, which is all the rage these days. Yuri Gagarin flew to space--proved them all wrong.
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The Bible we study today has thousands of errors due to faulty translation. Who are we, mortals, to limit GOD to a 24 hour day?
Well, we mortals are the ones who invented him, I guess we could do just about anything we want with his limits and constraints.
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If GOD created the universe, which planet in which star system is His standard for one day?
I'm glad you see the problem with the literal Genesis account.
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Evolution is proven science, but something created that very first spark of life.
Good thing Biological Evolution doesn't deal with abiogenesis. Come back in twenty years or less for more on that.
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Good grief...Do you mean to tell me that you think genesis is literal?
I think he was saying that Humans were at some point fish. I'm kind of curious what happened to my gills, you think I'd have a scar or something.
That is what is called a "bootstrap argument", Baron Munchausen would be proud.
There is no proof that we were "created." To conclude that based on our current existence is an post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
You need evidence that we were "created." So far no credible evidence has been provided.
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Evolution does not explain Genesis.
Evolution doesn't have to. Genesis has to stand on its own merits.
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They are not mutually exclusive.
Many areas of science are mutually exclusive with a literal reading of Genesis -- but what kind of idiot would think it was literal in the first place?
The last sentence is a double negative and does not make sense.
As for physical laws they given chemistry and chemical reactions. Without chemical reaction there would be no life.
Please answer my question again...there is no right or wrong answer or response...
But in regards to life, and randomn physical reaction 'creating life'...
When you look out into space, where Billions of these randomn and physical reaction took, and have taken, and are still taking place....
What have they produced thus far, in regards to life?
Please answer my question again...there is no right or wrong answer or response...
But in regards to life, and randomn physical reaction 'creating life'...
When you look out into space, where Billions of these randomn and physical reaction took, and have taken, and are still taking place....
What have they produced thus far, in regards to life?
Well, erm, all the diversity that exists on this planet, for starters. Beyond that, we don't know.
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