Everybody
has their own ideas about everything.
You have your favorite colors, food, cars, clothing styles, and your own view
about religion. Even people from the same religions have differing theologies.
The date of the earth is a highly debated object, which is far more important
than your color or your style. Whether you believe in a Big Bang or a 13.5
billion year-old universe and a six billion year-old earth, or if you believe
in divine inspiration and an earth that is only a few thousand years old, you
have your own idea. You may think
that only evolutionists believe in millions and billions of years, but even
some Christians believe in that too.
Where you’re coming from affects
your decisions and your beliefs. If you start with the Bible, your conclusions
about the earth’s age will be radically different than if you start with Charles
Darwin’s theory of evolution. If you start with the Bible, you may believe in a
six-day creation, or you may believe in a 13.5 billion year-old universe (6
billion year-old earth). Some have argued that the Hebrew word “Yom” is the
word used in the Genesis account of creation, and “Yom” can be translated into
any length of time. I contend that if you believe this, then it makes it
difficult to accept the translation of Jesus’ resurrection in three days.
Also, the Genesis account is the
only place in the Bible that the words “evening and morning…” follow the word
“day”. If you cannot take the word “day” literally in the Genesis account, God
put in the words “evening and morning”. In recent years, the gap theory has
become popular. If you are unfamiliar with the gap theory, I will fill it in as
best I can. The gap theory is basically where some people mix evolution with
creation and end up with this theory where they squeeze the millions of years
in between the first two verses of the Bible (See Genesis 1:1 and 1:2). The
problem is that this is an attack on the Genesis account of creation, and an
attempt on finding compromise between the theory of evolution and the creation
of our universe by a divine inspiration (aka God), and when someone attempts to
mix these, we see a compromised creation.
A quick point that I want to make is
that billions of years and creation are like two puzzle pieces that are from
different puzzles. They cannot go
together. Also, evolutionists have claimed that they have chosen science over
religion, but the fact is that they have chosen religion over science. They
have accepted atheistic views, and formed their own ideas about science that
contradict science. If the earth were truly even millions of years old, the
oceans could literally be walked across on foot, because of the salinity input
rate of the oceans. I could go on about several other scientific facts that
contradict the theory of creation, but I need to wrap this article up.
To finish this off, I could write a
number of statements, but let me just simplify this entire article in this one
paragraph. You have a worldview, whether you know it or not, you have a
worldview because you are a living entity who was created in the image of God.
Your worldview is affected by the lens that you see everything through. If
billions of years passed between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, then the Bible
contradicts itself; if that was true, then the Bible should’ve read, “and there
was billions of years, the 2,190,000,000,000th day…” Evidence for
evolution doesn’t exist, and science doesn’t disprove creation, but instead it
validates it.
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