http://unbelief.org/2007/07/23/creationist-groups-in-major-split/ unbelief.org Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://unbelief.org/2007/07/23/creationist-groups-in-major-split/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Athol Day Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:20:43 +0000 http://unbelief.org/main/2007/07/23/creationist-groups-in-major-split/#comment-54 Young earth creationism may be a serious stumbling block for many well educated people who would like to believe, but are told by people like Answers in Genesis that the world was created in six literal days about 6000 years ago. Of course God could have, but did He? He could have just appeared to Adam each afternoon for six literal days and explaiend the order of cration in six days. The existence of microwave energy in the skies which astonomers say is result of the doppler shift in light travelling from the most distant galaxies for 13.8 billion years. Fossils of ammonites and trilobites buried hundreds of metres under sedimentary rocks often metamorphosed by igneous extrusions date back 140 to 570 million years. The church once dismissed Copernicus and Galileo for scientific theories that conflicted with religious ideologies, and is doing so again. This is not just foolish it is harmful to the credibility of the church and reduces the respect for Christian morals. Young earth creationism may be a serious stumbling block for many well educated people who would like to believe, but are told by people like Answers in Genesis that the world was created in six literal days about 6000 years ago. Of course God could have, but did He? He could have just appeared to Adam each afternoon for six literal days and explaiend the order of cration in six days. The existence of microwave energy in the skies which astonomers say is result of the doppler shift in light travelling from the most distant galaxies for 13.8 billion years. Fossils of ammonites and trilobites buried hundreds of metres under sedimentary rocks often metamorphosed by igneous extrusions date back 140 to 570 million years. The church once dismissed Copernicus and Galileo for scientific theories that conflicted with religious ideologies, and is doing so again. This is not just foolish it is harmful to the credibility of the church and reduces the respect for Christian morals.

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