Hindsite wrote:Can't you see that the six creation days are just as real as the six days of the week that man is told to work as it symbolizes God working?
Can't you see that the day after the creation symbolizes the day that we are to rest and worship our Creator God?
Yes, SYMBOLIC, not LITERAL.
6 days is symbolic. It's not literally 6 days, but humans 2000 years ago probably couldn't even fathom what "billions" meant, so they put it in symbolic terms for the simpletons of the time.
You are contradicting yourself. You're taking a "story" with "symbolism" and trying to make it "fact" and "literal". This is why no one is agreeing with you, and why you sound so stupid when trying use symbolism to explain facts.
Evolution is not symbolic. Evolution co-exists just fine with Christian creation as long as you don't take your bible literal, instead of symbolic.
Metaphors, which the bible uses a lot, are NOT literal truths. Parables are meant to tell a tale with a moral, and not to be taken literally.
The Good Samaritan story is meant to represent anyone, not simply Samaritans, right? Symbolic.
If you take the bible as symbolic and meant to tell you how to live a good life, and not explain why water boils, it's fine. When you try to mix modern science into it, the bible starts to look dumb. The Bible isn't meant to do that.
You live your life by the bible, right? Yet you're using a computer. It's scientific. It's explanations don't contradict Christianity any more than Evolution does.
Let's reason this out a bit...
God created the world, according to the Bible. His days were represented as 6 days for the creation of the world/universe, etc. A day is an earth term for 24 hours. This is the rotation of the earth.
Now, why would a god that is ageless, timeless and all powerful constrain himself to 6 earth days for creation? The universe is immense, and intricately complex. Why assume a god would not take some real time to create everything, instead of slap dashing it all together in a way earthlings would understand?
DNA is a fact. That god made DNA, could be said. Science is not in the business of philosophizing. Science deals with the tangible.
Evolution is real. It's fact. There is evidence of this. Creation of the universe/world by God? Possible. There's no evidence of this, so science doesn't try to even theorize.
Could god have created DNA, molecular biology, etc., and used Evolution to make man over millions of years? Perfectly plausible, but impossible to prove, so science doesn't worry about "creation" beyond what it can observe and test.
If you're a Christian, the world and the universe that god made, are impossibly complex and practically infinite.
Evolution doesn't disprove the bible or god. If anything it might reinforce the fact that he's even more powerful than people can imagine, and thinks in terms humans can't begin to comprehend, so we simplify.
If there's a god, he made man and the universe over billions of years. A universe so mind-bogglingly complex, that it's unfathomable to a human. Put that in 3 sentences at the beginning of a bible made 2000+ years ago, and try to have people understand it. Could you? No. So it's symbolic.
Are you getting the gist of what I am saying? They didn't even know about molecules 2000 years ago, let alone DNA, so explaining the world from a scientific view, when there were no true sciences, to ignorant primitives, would have been fool-hardy, and impossible.
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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