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Old 06-25-2009, 05:05 AM   #858 (permalink)
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If I get this right, day could mean any amount of time so if God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th, that could mean he worked hard for ~650 million years x 6 then took it easy the last ~650 million years .. and somewhere within the very last few hundred thousand years from now, he makes humans.

There's still the problem of all the pre-homo sapien fossils. How do they fit into this? Were they failed attempts at humans then? What about the other 99 point something percent of earth's history when there were other organisms around?

Can you see how just these two points would rather point towards Genesis not being a literal account of how our earth was created?

The water canopy "hypothesis" is just mumbo jumbo and - nothing personal - but it takes a certain kind of dull mind to not see how it is incredible - as in unbelievable. The flood was said to cover most moutains across our planet and our atmosphere simply can't hold that much water vapor and support life at the same time and that's just one of the angles you can disprove that hypothesis from.

Congratulations on discovering that UV radiation may cause mutations. About UV radiation and how that explains how people didn't get older, well - that doesn't hold up even slightly as a biological argument. There are other things than mutations that will cause problems with age such as the shortening of our telomerases (buffer sequences of DNA at the ends of our chromosomes) giving most of our cells a limited amount of life, cancer which is an inevitable consequence of a very long life and the fact that there are literally thousands upon thousands of other mutagens out there aside from UV rays that can disrupt our DNA. We don't even need external mutagens, sometimes cells just don't do such a great job at fixing errors caused by their own proteins.


If you reject evolution then you have to reject all modern science starting with what we've learned from biology because it's scientifically proven and if you can't believe that, then by default you can't believe in anything else science has proven by the very same methodology. Modern biology is all thoroughly based on our understanding of evolution. It's a foundation and it works - we can observe it, we can use it and it helps us understand the very earth we live on and all the other organisms around us. Dismissing evolution would be like dismissing the theory of atoms which all of chemistry is built up on if not worse because evolution gives us so much insight and understanding of ourselves, something knowing atom theory can't be fully compared to.

Another point here is then that if you reject evolution, then you might as well reject "scientific" attempts at giving credibility to the bible.
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