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Creation
Whether you believe God created the world or the universe is the result of the Big Bang, ask questions here about the creation of the beautiful and wondrous earth we live on.
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What was made on the first day of creation?
The Bible says in the begining God created the Heavens and the earth.
==1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
On the first day God produced the blueprint of the universe and He worked out how to go about manifesting it. The expression "earth was without form, and void" indicates that the earth was just an idea in His mind. As Paramhansa Yogananda explains in his book "The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You" this indicates the "creative thoughts of God that are the ideational causes of all beginnings" (see Discourse 10).
Also, in these few lines, Moses explains to us that God plays with the universe for some time (which He calls 'Day') after which He rests for some time (which He calls 'Night'). The light that God created on the first day was not the visible light from stars (which was created on the fourth day), but is the "Cosmic Vibration's first expression of creation (concurrent with the sound of of Aum or Amen). It is the essence or building block of the trifold universe and man - ideational, the subtlest form of light as thought or idea; astral, the light of lifetronic energy; and material, the light of atoms, electrons, protons that structure all matter." (see Yogananda's book "God Talks With Arjuna - The Bhagavad Gita" chapter III, verses 14-15).
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God created light.
On the first day of creation, God created the first day of creation:
'And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.' Gen 1:5.
Is there such thing as recarnation?
That is nearly the same as asking is there such a thing as God. There are many people throughout the world that are convinced that reincarnation is a fact of life. Buddhism puts forward that reincarnation is the passing from life to life going through all the trials and tribulations that are on offer until you come to a juncture where you understand reality. at which point you become a conscious part of all of existence. the Hindus have different levels of the same sort of idea and there are many other groups that think along the same lines. There are many books available on the subject both ancient and modern. And whether they lead you to believe in reincarnation or not the thoughts surrounding the whole concept are both fascinating and give a new slant on the way to look at life. However As is the case with any thing that involves the afterlife you have to go there to know hat is right. I like the concept of reincarnation myself because it seems to be more sensible then having a giant man judging us all of a sudden at the end of your life.
What are the views Catholics and dinosaurs?
in the book of genesis there is a verse that refers to great sea creatures, this may have some reference to dinosaurs if the catholics believe in science and reality this would be the passage they turn to about dinosaurs.
So you can be judged
why do we have to be judged?
We die because its part of life and nothing you say or do will stop it from happening. So just enjoy your life while you still have one
we have to die so we can give others a chance at life
We live in an imperfect world. Therefore we die so hopefully we can enter a perfect one.
The judgment day is when Jesus comes to Earth :)
What started slavery during the 1618's?
Slavery actually started much earlier than the 1600's. It can be traced back to a time before the pyramids were built. As early civilizations began to expand beyond their boundaries, laborers were needed to build roads, bridges, dams and borders. Slavery actually provided jobs and encouraged commerce between countries.
Is there Empirical Proof of God in any religious books in any religion?
As far as the Bible is concerned, it never seeks to prove God's existence but merely gives a record of His dealings with mankind and especially with His chosen people the Jews. Romans 1:20 also testifies that God can be clearly seen in the creation, and so, to use the Bible's words, 'they are without excuse.' Thus the Book of God, the Bible, points to another book of witness, the Book of Creation as a witness. : In relation to Christianity The Bible actually contains a number of accounts which demonstrate the real existence of God in space and time. These were so understood by those who witnessed and participated.
1 Kings 18:21-39 (King James Version) 21And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people ed him not a word.
22Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
23Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
24And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the LORD: and the God that eth by fire, let him be God. And all the people ed and said, It is well spoken.
25And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
26And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that ed. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
27And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
28And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
29And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to , nor any that regarded.
30And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.
31And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
32And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
33And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
34And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
35And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
36And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
37Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
38Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
39And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. Comment: The specific context relates to the Northern Kingdom of Israel following the false god Baal, who is demonstrated here to either be powerless or uninterested in the affairs of his followers or non-existent.
By contrast, the empirical test which Elijah proposed and which was accepted by the people, demonstrated that the Lord God of Israel was the true God.
This test was specifically designed by Elijah to demonstrate to the Israelites who they should be serving. Bible Prophecy Another vast area in the Bible is that of prophecy. Deuteronomy 18:21-22 (King James Version) 21And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
22When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
This 'empirical test' relates to who is a true and who is a false prophet. It provides direct empirical proof of God, since men cannot know the future by themselves, especially hundreds of years in advance. God, who is all-knowing, does know what the future holds. The true prophet of God is given specific insight by God into the future. The empirical test relates to whether or not the predicted event actually comes to pass. This fulfillment not only demonstrates that the prophet spoke in the name of God. It also demonstrates quite directly that God exists and that He knows the future. Obviously the person involved cannot know the future, nor, since they are long dead, have a personal hand in helping the prophecy come to pass.
Scripture holds numerous examples of prophecies fulfilled hundreds of years after they were uttered. The many prophecies relating to the Messiah, Jesus Christ, are the single biggest block of these. Others relate to historical events. On Historical Events and Empirical Data It is obvious that historical events cannot be repeated as can scientific experiments. This is so because they relate to a particular place and a particular time or moment in history. (nor would we wish very many horrible events to be repeated anyway) They thus are verified in a different manner empirically, by the normal rules of empirical evidence which apply to historical data.
Scientific experimentation is able to be repeated because the matter or phenomenon which is being tested still exists in space and time. Matter also contains molecules and atoms whereas God is a Spirit. And, furthermore, in relation to scientific experimentation, the matter to be tested can to a degree be controlled by the experimenter, or is altered in such a way as to be controlled so the experiment can take place - for example, drugging a dangerous animal to insert an electronic tracking device.
God Himself has stated in the Bible that He is able to be found by those who are willing to find Him. Since He is a sovereign being He has chosen to not make Himself available to be dissected by those who mock and ridicule His existence and devise criteria to reason Him out of existence. Those who follow the relevant criteria know empirically that He exists and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
So the real question is, how would one who is finite test a being who claims to be infinite. God has invited Himself to be put to the test empirically by those who have an open mind. The particular experience which God will grant often will be very particular to the individual concerned. One example is how Jesus dealt with the unbelief of Thomas, who refused the eyewitness testimony of the other disciples. John 20:24-28 (King James Version) 24But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
25The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.
26And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.
27Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
28And Thomas ed and said unto him, My LORD and my God.
How logic bridge the gap between philosophy and theology in the exorcism?
There is not much logic involved in performing an exorcism. It is very faith based. Logic can come in when deciding how to do it and how far to take it. You can also logically decide if you will need help or can do it by yourself.
What does 'in my heart of hearts' mean?
'In my heart of hearts' means that you know or have known that something is true even if you have not been willing to admit it to yourself or others.
You will have to take this answer on faith I am afraid. As we were all spirit children living with our farther in heaven, we also had our agency to think what we so desired. Satan or Lucifer as he was known in heaven, had it in mind to take the place of God. Because of this he was cast out of heaven when his plan to save all mankind by force was rejected. His one desire is to destroy the plan of God and have all mankind become as wicked as himself.
' Destiny ' can be explained as any futuristic event that is generally accepted as 'inevitable'. As a rule of thumb some believe that their future's have been predetermined for them and all they need to do is find it. Others feel that they determine their own future but most seem to agree that there is some sort of 'niche' waiting for them somewhere. One may feel compelled to explore a given path or direction or, many paths taking them in many directions. That said, the notion of 'destiny' becomes more of a state of mind. In either case whether its chosen for you or you choose it yourself the answer would be, yes. Applying chaos theory here might suggest that all of human behaviour is nothing short of random. If a butterfly's wing beat can cause a cyclone there must certainly be many factors which affect us. But the argument that the causes themselves were destined to occur, remains.
How did Malcom X change the world?
Malcolm X made the world less segregated until Martin Luther King came finished the issue and then died long after Malcolm Little -or- Malcolm X.
Whats the term for believing that God is both man and woman?
A being combining both male and female characteristics is a hermaphrodite. The ancient god of Palestine, one of the ancestors of JHVH, was hermaphroditic.
Why is StPatrick's Day celebrated on March 17?
Saint Patrick's Day is celebated on March 17 because in 461 C.E., he died on this day. Saint Patrick was born about 385 in Scotland. His parents, Calpurnius and Conchessa, were Catholic Romans living in Britain in charge of the colonies. This might even make Saint Patrick an Italian. At the age of fourteen, raiders captured Patrick and took him as a slave to Ireland, a land of Druids and pagans. Patrick learned the Irish language and customs. While a slave, Patrick's faith in God grew and he wrote "The love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was raised, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same." "I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain." When Patrick was twenty, he had a dream in which God told him to leave Ireland by going to the coast. He escaped and found a boat that took him back to Britain and his family. Later Patrick dreamed that Irish were calling, "We beg you, holy youth, to come and walk among us once more." Patrick studied, became a priest, and, later, a bishop. In 433, he went to take the Gospel to Ireland. Patrick preached the Gospel throughout Ireland, converted thousands, and began building churches. Patrick is famous for using the shamrock (a three-leaf clover) to explain the Trinity. Patrick preached for 40 years and died on March 17, 461 at Saul, where he had built the first church. Patrick's feast day is March 17 and he is the patron saint of Ireland.
Much of the reason for this lies in something called 'indifference'. Because of the many decisions we are faced with on a daily basis the choices we make have a tremendous affect on our lives and others around us. We are not perfect beings in many ways in that we tend to argue, be hatefull and just generally disagreeable and sometimes for no apparent reason. But we are perfect in other ways or at least as close to perfect as a human can get. We are perfectly suited for the environment in which we live. Our bodies are perfectly designed to handle this evironment. For some of us who cant seem to go through a day without getting nicked or scratched we understand there is a process which for the most part takes care of itself without our help. That is our skin's remarkable ability to heal itself. This is just one of many examples of human perfection.People aren't perfect because we all have mistakes, that we change, but we make new ones! That's why!
How many years were there before ad?
The acronyms ad (anno domini) or ce (common era) refer to the time since the birth of Christ. Before this there were billions of years.
Present estimates put the age of the earth at 4.54 billion years, plus or minus 45 million. The universe may be around 13.7 billion years old.
Who are the important people of Idaho and what did they do to become important?
Cecil Andrus was Governor of the State of Idaho and later became Secretary of the Interior. I met him last year.
Frank Church was a senator from Idaho, and Idaho's largest wilderness area is named after him. This is the largest roadless area in the lower 48 states. My great grandfather was an Idaho State senator and was also postmaster for the state, many years ago.
Do you believe in evolution or creationism and why?
The major reason I believe in creation-science and don't believe in evolution is because I know and have been created by the maker of all things, who has spoken and stated how the universe and everything in it came to be. Secondly, as one would expect if this was an empirically correct view there is not one scientific fact, correctly understood, which contradicts this. Three proven scientific laws point clearly to a creator in a positive way. 1. The Law of Biogenesis - life only comes from life. Science has proven that life cannot and does not arise spontaneously from whatever conditions one cares to imagine. 2 and 3. The first and second laws of thermodynamics point clearly to a creator, since things decay rather than get more orderly over time (although of course the total discussion is much more complex). Modern Genetics also points to a creator, since no genetic code can be demonstrated to have arisen by chance, together with the ability to read that code. Information does not arise spontaneously - and there is an incredible amount of information in even the tiniest cell. Scientific studies also suggest strongly that the earth cannot be anywhere near as old as evolution requires and is in fact 'young.' Why evolution is not the best explanation? Because in order to have evolution, something had to change. And at the beginning there was nothing. So, what did change? If you change nothing, you will get nothing.
Answer From someone who believes BOTH: Darwin has explained pretty well the evolution of species up to a point. However if one follows the path "Species 1" -> "Species 2" -> "Species 3" through the evolution line, it is quite possible to ask "From what did everything begun"? Or even to ask "OK, but why do the evolution rules exist and apply? Who/what put them in motion?". The evolution theory does not have answers to that. There comes into play the theories about the "First cause" and so on. So in that perspective, I believe both theories are true in their perspective.
Answer: Even Evolutionists Have Problems Regarding Long-Age Dating Methods 'The age of our globe is presently thought to be some 4.5 billion years, based on radiodecay rates of uranium and thorium. Such "confirmation" may be short-lived as nature is not to be discovered quite so easily. There has been in recent years the realization that radiodecay rates are not as constant as previously thought, nor are they immune to environmental influences. And this could mean that the atomic clocks are reset during some global disaster, and events which brought the Mesozoic to a close may not be 65 million years ago but rather, within the age and memory of man.' Frederic B. Jueneman, FAIC, 'Secular catastrophism'. Industrial Research and Development, June 1982, p.21. 'All the above methods for dating the age of the earth, its various strata, and its fossils are questionable because the rates are likely to have fluctuated widely over earth's history. A method that appears to have much greater reliability for determining absolute ages of rocks is that of radiometric dating.'.... 'It is obvious that radiometric techniques may not be the absolute dating methods that they are claimed to be. Age-estimates on a given geological stratum by different radiometric methods are often quite different (sometimes by hundreds of millions of years). There is no absolutely reliable long-term radiological "clock." The uncertainties inherent in radiometric dating are disturbing to geologists and evolutionists....". William D. Stansfield, Ph.D. (Instructor of Biology, California Polytechnic State University) in The Science of Evolution, Macmillan, New York, 1977, pp.82 and 84. 'In conventional interpretation of K-Ar age data, it is common to discard ages which are substantially too high or to low compared with the rest of the group or with other available data such as the geologic time scale. The discrepancies between the rejected and the accepted are arbitrarily attributed to excess or loss of argon.' A. Hayatsu (Department of Geophysics, University of Western Ontario, Canada), 'K-Ar isochron age of the North Mountain Basalt, Nova Scotia'. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 16, 1979, p.974. 'Thus, if one believes that the derived ages in particular instances are in gross disagreement with established facts of field geology, he must conjure up geological processes that could cause anomalous or altered argon contents of the minerals.' Prof. J. F. Evernden (Department of Geology, University of California, Berkeley, USA) and Dr. John R. Richards (Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra), 'Potassium-argon ages in eastern Australia'. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, vol. 9 (1), 1962, p.3. Regarding the rubidium/strontium (Rb/Sr) method:
'These results indicate that even total-rock systems may be open during metamorphism and may have their isotopic systems changed, making it impossible to determine their geologic age.' Prof. Gunter Faure (Department of Geology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA) and Prof. James L. Powell (Department of Geology, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA) in Strontium Isotope Geology, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1972, p.102. 'One serious consequence of the mantle isochron model is that crystallization ages determined on basic igneous rocks by the Rb-Sr whole rock technique can be greater than the true age by many hundreds of millions of years. This problem of inherited age is more serious for younger rocks, and there are well-documented instances of conflicts between stratigraphic age and Rb-Sr age in the literature.' Dr. C. Brooks (Professor of Geology, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada), Dr. D. E. James (Staff Member in geophysics and geochemistry, Carnegie Institution of Washington D.C., USA) and Dr. S. R. Hart (Professor of Geochemistry, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA), 'Ancient lithosphere: its role in young continental vulcanism'. Science, vol. 193, 17 September 1976, p. 1093. The age of the Earth is only relevant to this question, if it is too short to permit evolution, or too long to support Young Earth creationism, which is based on a literal or semi-literal reading of the Bible. And the age of the Earth is entirely irrelevant to Old Earth creationism, since the advocates of this position are quite happy to argue their position in the light of the earth being 4.5 billion years old. The Theory of Evolution requires the Earth to be at least a few million years old. It does not require the world to be 4.5 billion years old. So, even with the unproven assumption that the rates of radioactive decay have altered dramatically over the eons, this is irrelevant to the possibility of evolution having occurred. A literal reading of the Bible requires to world to be around 6 thousand years old. No discussion of rates of radioactive decay can plausibly shoehorn the geological evidence into six thousand years. Even a semi-literal reading of the Bible, supposing for example that one biblical creation day was really one thousand years, makes no material difference. Young Earth creationism can not use scientific data to prove its point. I therefore accept that evolution of life has occurred. The following are some of the scientific arguments used by young earth creationists. Sometimes the arguments do not explicitly point to the Biblical age used by creationists of 6000-10,000 years but they are also much younger than evolutionary ages allow and are a much bigger problem for the theory of evolution than creation. In many cases the data (most of it researched and published by evolutionist scientists) points to an earth or universe which is not even millions of years old.
1. Rapid Disintegration of Comets: means they cannot be 5 billion years old or they wouldn't exist. Around 100,000 years is postulated as a maximum.
2. Insufficient sea-floor sediment: At current rates of erosion the amount of sea-floor sediments actually found could accumulate in 12 million years. The oceans are alleged to have existed for 3 billion years.
Creationists contend these sediments could have accumulated rapidly at the flood of Noah c. 5000 years ago.
3. Insufficent Sodium Chloride in the sea:Evolutionary estimates for the age of the earth's oceans are 3 billion years. With current rates of deposition, the salt in the sea could have accumulated in 42-62 million years at today's rate and of course much faster in the Noahic flood.
Note: Calculations done for many other elements produce even younger ages.
4. Decay of the magnetic field of the Earth:This is occurring too rapidly to fit the long-age evolutionary paradigm - the total energy stored having decreased by a factor of 2.7 over the past 1000 years. Creationists have a model explaining this based on sound physics.
5. Tightly bent strata: These stata, thousands of feet thick are tightly bent without cracking. Yet they are meant to have solidified over millions of years and then bent. The creationist explanation is that they formed while still plastic as the entire formation had to be soft when formed to avoid cracking. This would point to the folding having occurred thousands of years and not millions after formation.
6. Fossil Radioactivity: Radiohaloes which have shown evidence of having been squashed indicate that the Jurassic, Triassic and Eocene formations in the Colorado plateau were formed in a short time-frame - over months, not hundreds of millions of years. This is so since the rings formed by the haloes, which only exist for a short time before they decay were squashed, indicating rapid formation. If the rocks had formed over a long time span the haloes would not have been there.
7. Misplaced Helium: Helium is generated by radioactive elements as they decay. The escape of this Helium into the atmosphere can be measured. If this has been occurring for 5 billion years there should be much more Helium in the atmosphere, instead of the 0.05% that is actually there when compared to the relevant time scale.
8. Insufficient stone-age skeletons: The 100,000 year stone-age of evolutionary anthropologists should have produced many more skeletons - around 4 billion, many more of which should still be around compared to the few thousand found.
9. Recent Agriculture: The archeological evidence shows the stone age people to be as intelligent as modern man and yet it is claimed they existed for 100,000 years before discovering that plants grow from seeds. Creationists would think that it is more likely that man was without agriculture for a much shorter period immediately after the flood.
10. History too short: Stone-age people built huge monuments, did beautiful cave paintings and kept records of lunar phases. It seems unreasonable that they should wait nearly 100,000 years before beginning to make written historical records around 4-5000 BC. A much shorter Biblical time-scale seems to better fit this evidence.
Source: These points are condensed from an article by creationist Dr. Russel Humphreys, in Creation Ex Nihilo 13 (3): 28-31, June -August 1991.
The footnotes to this article contain the relevant scientific data relating to the points made. This will be posted as a link for those wishing to check the data or inquire further.
These are not the only arguments used by creationists, but are a sample of some.
Other arguments include:
11. Saturn's Rings are aged much less than claimed by evolutionary theory: This is based on relatively recent observations which show a decay rate of the rings which would mean that they would not still exist if the universe were as old as claimed by evolutionary theory. 12. Processes thought to take a long period of time can take a short time given the right conditions: Among the list of such processes includes the following:
Coal and Oil formation. Opal formation. Stalactites and Stalagmites in Limestone and other caves.
Diamonds
General Geologic processes are not always slow and gradual but sometimes catastrophic in nature Some Examples of Rapid Geologic Processes. The long-accepted dogma taught by Charles Lyell that geologic processes always take vast amounts of time is being challenged by recent discoveries in science.
The following are now accepted as having formed catastrophically in a relatively short period of time:
- a major portion of Washington State
- the Snake River Plain of Idaho
- the Altai region of Southern Siberia
- the Black Sea basin
- the upper Mississippi River Valley
- the Hudson River Valley including New York City
- Wyoming's Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
- Owen's River Gorge in California
- the Great Lakes/S. Lawrence River drainage basin
- the English Channel and Dover Straits (the most recently discovered addition to this list)
Scientists who are not creationists of any kind are now openly talking about catastrophism of a major kind in shaping some of these vast areas. Diamonds, Coal and Opals These have all been demonstrated as not requiring millions of years to form. They can all be formed quite quickly under the right conditions.
Further To The Age Issue:
Evolution has been likened to a salesman who made a loss on every sale and assumed by increasing his volume he could still make a profit. No length of time, whether billions or as little as millions (no scientist who believes in evolution thinks the earth and universe can be that young) can account for a process which shows a net loss when operating. I am here talking about the modern science of genetics which does not at all support the 'uphill' development of organisms but shows an accumulation over time of harmful mutations. In other words science shows that our genes are deteriorating not 'improving'. The changes required by evolution to work are all in the wrong direction.
The 'age of the earth' issue only serves to highlight that the vast ages supposed by evolutionists to be necessary to make it 'work' are in fact illusory, as shown by evolutionists themselves. In any case, regardless of the amount of time involved it is not shown by science to work, but rather science shows the reverse.
Thus there are good reasons not to believe in evolution. Conversely, science shows precisely what is predicted under the creation model. Data consistently comes in much younger than expected and many of the older ages can be explained under the flood model, where undoubtedly a number of geologic processes were much more rapid. Actually, neither Evolution nor Creation has any real scientific proof-- they are both matters of faith (even though evolutionists believe that their is no such thing as faith). Was anyone who is around now on the earth there when it happened? Then you can't say that what you believe is really scientific. The reason they call it, "Missing Link," is because it is still missing-- they still can't find any human-ape bones. However, there are things, such as the amount of dust on the moon and ocean floor sediment that suggest that it could not possibly be millions of years old.
Answer The answer is really quite easy to find. Find the nearest human being to you, someone you can watch closely for a while. Study him or her for a few weeks. Then ask yourself what you believe. If you decide you believe in creation science I take it to mean that you believe God created man. Do you actually believe there could be a "superior being" idiotic enough to create the collection of idiots who populate the human race? Most Christians, for example. We have a God who sent Moses to convey his Ten Commandments. One of those commandments is Do Not Kill. Not, Do Not Kill Unless You have Sufficient Justification..., but simply Do Not Kill. And the God who made that commandment is the very God we say we worship, as we go out there and kill people in our wars. If there is a God, he created evolution, and He's up there pacing in heaven right now, waiting with Godly patience I believe,for the Thankful Day man finally evolves into the lowly status of extinction. Why? Because even the people who pretend to worship Him won't keep His commandments.
Answer None of the evolution process is proven. Also, a dog is still a dog no matter if it's a golden retriever or a wolf.
How does evil enter the world?
Your parents gave birth to you.
It begins with influence. We are encuoraged in many ways to do or not to do things. We are quite literally at the mercy of the world around us and are bogged down by a variety of good and bad thoughts. We are not only influenced by the physical world around us but the spirtitual realm as well. In particular when bad thoughts enter are minds the odds are real good those thouhgts are being put there by those evil spirits who also live here on the earth. A thought then becomes an idea which may in time turn to contemplation. If one dwells too long on a given bad thougt, that contemplation may, in turn become manifested into a physical act.
What do Buddhists believe about recarnation?
Buddhists believe that there is a deeper, more complete understanding of reality than the one we think of and participate in every day. The everyday life we experience is really no more than a dream, and what we think of as our "selves" is really just an illusion. When our bodies die, our mind-streams persist, like a river running through several countries. When we die, its like the river passing through one country's boundary into another. The river- or the mind-stream -doesn't change. After death our mind-streams continue on, and after a time, become incarnated into a different body, with a different sense of self than the previous one. It isn't that you, with your sense of being this person or that person gets reincarnated into a different body, but that your mind-stream, which has no illusion of self does.
Describe Christian Beliefs About How The World Began?
Christians believe that God created the world out of nothing in a seven day time. (There is debate over if these are real 24-hour periods or just ammounts of time.) These are the days of creation as taken from the NIV version of the Bible:
3And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day.
6And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning-the second day.
9And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13And there was evening, and there was morning-the third day.
14And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16God made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19And there was evening, and there was morning-the fourth day.
20And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23And there was evening, and there was morning-the fifth day.
24And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth,b and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-everything that has the breath of life in it-I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-the sixth day
(On the seventh day God rested.)
the dreamcatchers allow good dreams to pass through a hole in the middle while bad dreams get caught in the net and stay there until they are fried by the sun.
