Creation

When Charles Hodge wrote "What is Darwinism?" in 1874 and argued that evolution can not explain the complexities of the eye is when creationism was first used as a tool against evolution. Before that, Thomas Aquinas and later William Paley used the design argument to 'prove' God's existence, as a small group in the United States are doing today, and the story of Creation was believed to be literally true by all Christian sects. However, it was not called 'Creationism' as there was no opposing theory at the time.

Because nobody was there - and hard evidence in favour of any particular idea is hard to come by.

Those who claim that it was all created by a divine being have only their sacred scriptures to 'prove' their point of view.

Those who claim that it 'just happened' in a big bang cannot yet show the mathematical proof that their idea is even possible.

The sun is currently half the age it will live for. in about another 5 billion years when the sun reaches the end of its life cycle, it will turn into a red giant, engulfing all of the rocky planets. for example earth. and then it will slowly cool and become a white dwarf.

Just how long ago the starry heavens and the earth were created is not stated in the Bible. Scientists estimate the age of some rocks as being three and a half billion years, and the earth itself as being about four to four and a half billion or more years.

The crowning act of creation, according to many religious beliefs, was the creation of humans. In the Christian tradition, humans were created in the image of God and given dominion over the Earth.

Nobody really knows. There are many different conclusions that are normally sorted by religion. Different religious groups believe different conclusions on who or what created the earth. There are thousands. Its generally believed that the Big Bang was the more scientific decision on how the world around us was created, and God isn't normally spoken about with the Big Bang. But, as I mentioned, nobody knows. God could have created the Big Bang, but I, and many scientists, think not.

I think you mean "If we believe" and not "if we admire"

There is not really any clash between belief in -A- God and science.... the difficulty is between certain religious people's "form" of God and science.

All that science says is that creation happened in the Big Bang.

It claims that this happened at a certain time in the past and that following it all things have logical explanations - even if science cannot yet detail those explanations, it believes that it will eventually be able to explain all things. Science believes that life 'happened' because the conditions for it were right.

Science has no opinion on whether there was a God behind this, it sees no reason to believe that one was, but it doesn't say that there was no god behind it.

Some religions have views on creation which conflict with this, saying that all forms of life were deliberately and individually created by their God.

True science and believing admiration need not be separated. Especially when we realize that God's truth is in no way contradicted by the proven facts of science. Belief in an orderly world is a foundational assumption of all scientific endeavor. Great scientific pioneers such as Copernicus, Newton, Keppler and Galileo all believed in a creator God. Keppler dedicated his work to the glory of God.

What needs to be clearly understood is that the Bible, when rightly understood in its literal sense, does not contradict what is demonstrated by science. Many facts discovered by people who do not believe the Bible nevertheless support its view of history and of a young earth. No Bible believing scientist in this present age believes all species were individually created as they are now since we know that massive changes have occurred on this planet and creatures have adapted to these changes through the mechanism we call natural selection.

It is certainly true that science can have nothing to say about God and his existence and yet many today try to use science deliberately to promote the philosophy of naturalism, closely allied to atheistic humanism. This need not cause anyone to be intimidated since these people deliberately re-interpret or ignore all facts which contradict their theory.

The Bible states that 'the heavens declare the glory of God' describing the wonder the author felt at even what he could see, probably without any visual aid such as a telescope. How much more today in the age of Hubble. Thus true science need not be in conflict with true faith. True science can in fact lead to more admiration as we see the order, the complexity in more and more detail. More and more scientists, although of course a tiny minority at present, do in fact just this.

The first person on Earth was god he created Adam and Eve and therefore there was jesus. Nobody knows exactly where god came from even if they did for ex. god came from the skies! theres another question behind that where did the skies come from ? ex. the skies came from the big bang theory! but where did the big bang theory come from? so there are lots of questions to be asked but nobody knows for sure right now.We are gonna have to wait and see!!! hope this helped -xoxo_Sm3xy_Sh4wt11_xoxo

I value God's creation by recognizing its inherent beauty and complexity, understanding the interconnectedness of all living things, and striving to be a good steward of the Earth by caring for the environment and respecting all forms of life.

In the beginning of the bible God says "Let there be light", but it doesnt say that he created dark. There was nothing at first, so we may assume that it was dark. So the answer, i think is Day.

Answer 2Scientifically speaking, Day and Night are caused by the rotation of the Earth where every 24 hours the Earth will revolve 360 degrees. The Earth is separated into 24 parts known as hours, and these parts are used as to determine what part of the day it is. So we see that the place that the Sun is hitting the Earth is the Day and the other side is the night.

Now religiously speaking, God says "Let there be light" in the world of darkness. Thus we can base our answer off of 2 assumptions.

1. The world was never bright until God made it so

2. God made darkness first.

Science speaks for itself, but if we are talking about religion as this topic is fielded under, then my two points as stated above will provide the possible choices

Scientists who contend that the biblical story of creation is false are following the philosophy of naturalism which specifically excludes creation as something which can be considered. This is rather interesting in the light of modern science which developed in an era where people believed in God and so also believed in as a consequence an orderly universe which could be understood and studied.

In more recent times some scientists have sought to use the unscientific philosophy of naturalism which explicitly excludes the creator, when science cannot disprove God by any endeavor deemed to be scientific.

Other scientists, although certainly in a minority, do not find any conflict whatsoever between the facts of science and creation. These scientists do not regard the creation story as made up. This demonstrates it is a philosophical position which causes people to regard the creatin story as made up. It is also a philosophical statement, not a scientific one to regard certain things as facts which are not at ll proven but which are open to question and debate such as the age of the earth.

It is explicitly the alleged age of the earth, which in recent times has had much contrary evidence brought against it, which is open to question by such data but which is used to call into the question the view that the earth was created by God around 6000 years ago.

Using the newly invented telescope, Galileo observed the night sky, making a number of observations that revealed evidence that there were celestial objects that did not orbit Earth. In 1610, he watched several of Jupiter's moons as they moved in and out of sight around their parent planet. He also observed Venus, noting how it went through phases very much like our own moon - something that was impossible if it did not orbit the sun. He later observed Saturns rings, and

though he mistook them for a number of planets orbiting each other, it was one more example of something that was not orbiting the Earth.

No, William Paley did not invent the eye analogy. He popularized it in his book "Natural Theology" in 1802, where he used the analogy of the watch and the watchmaker to argue for the existence of God based on the design complexity of the natural world.

The Bible answers:

(Genesis 1:9-13)" . . .And God went on to say: "Let the waters under the heavens be brought together into one place and let the dry land appear." And it came to be so. 10 And God began calling the dry land Earth, but the bringing together of the waters he called Seas. Further, God saw that [it was] good. 11 And God went on to say: "Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth, vegetation bearing seed, fruit trees yielding fruit according to their kinds, the seed of which is in it, upon the earth." And it came to be so. 12 And the earth began to put forth grass, vegetation bearing seed according to its kind and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is in it according to its kind. Then God saw that [it was] good. 13 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a third day."

The Bible does not say how long the third day lasted (or any other creative day for that matter) but apparently some time went by as earth emerged up from the watery expanse (as it still does today,) dry ground emerged (over time) and it was made to be capable of supporting seeds and plant life (according to its kind, as it still is.)

God rested on the seventh day of creation, after completing the work of creating the heavens, earth, plants, animals, and humans in six days according to the Bible. This day of rest is known as the Sabbath, which is observed as a day of rest and worship in many religious traditions.

Different cultures and religions have various creation stories. In Christianity, the world was created by God in six days as described in the book of Genesis. In Hinduism, the world was created by Brahma, the creator god. In scientific terms, the world was formed through the Big Bang theory, where the universe expanded from a singularity approximately 13.8 billion years ago.

As one who believes in creation and not the big bang theory, I can tell you that the earth was a beautiful place. The garden of Eden was filled with all the plants and animals that could be imagined. It was a beautiful place where God walked daily. It was perfect. It was perfect until Satan stepped in and caused Adam and Eve to sin. Once that happened, man started thinking that he was very intelligent which led to man eventually thinking he was so smart that he could figure out everything. Man then thought up the theory about the big bang. Silly man.

Since the big bang didn't happen, it is impossible to describe non-existent conditions. Interestingly, it is not just Christian believers who are now criticizing the big bang. Scientists who are not Christian are also seeing the increasing evidence from science which contradicts it. It is difficult to conceive of a greater waste of money, when millions of people are starving and oppressed, for people to try to test a theory which cannot in any way be proven and which has so much contrary evidence.

Though no authority on this subject I would guess that color would suggest that our sun is a relatively young star. Yellow being a much younger star than say the blue or red stars which are much hotter, so suggesting that they are much older. There are some who would suggest that our sun has used up all of its energy and is cooling down making it much older that I first suggested.

We deserve to know the answer. We have worked hard to learn about the universe we inhabit. We owe it to ourselves, and to our progeny, to understand just how it was everything came to be. And, in our quest for knowledge, we may learn other things about ourselves we can use to improve our lives.

Knowledge simply for the sake of knowledge is a gift. I love knowing our universe is 13.8 billion years old, and that it contains roughly 100 billion galaxies beyond our own. These are things our ancestors could not possibly have dreamed. They viewed the stars as fixed on the dome of heaven, and were puzzled by the wanderers (planets). Comets and supernova upset their view of things. Eclipses were not quite so mysterious--everyone understood fairly well what caused the sun to intermittently darken during the day.

We now know much better just how vast and old our universe is, and that understanding is accompanied by a sense of achievement. As time goes on, we will learn so much more. And this knowledge is our birth right, as human beings, inquisitive about the world around us. We deserve to know.