For the heck of it I'd like to start this again.
I was in biology class the other day, we were discussing evolution and darwin and the likes and the inevitable question "I am *insert religous beleifs here* , i think this is blashpemy, can i be excused?" question came up, and responsivly i thought of darwin and evolution and how things evolved from the first single celled creatures.
So Evolutionism (or is it Evolutionaryism? wow i sound like Bush now ) bassically states that animals adapt their bodies to suit their enviroments with each generation, having the weak links die out due to not mating. now creationism (Sp? context?) says that god created the animals in one day and that they did't evolve from single celled organisms. correct?
So my theory, if i remember correctly, went sometihng along the lines of; maybe God did create animals in a evolutionist fashion but explained it to early humans in a way they could understand. Lemme see if i could clarify.. lets say God created the Dog right? Well evolution says that the dog evolved from wolves which came form earlier forms which came from fish stuff or something (sorrry for my lignorance, work with me here) but it is known that there are wolves and dogs today, wolves were tamed and nutured by humans, so they becamse less fierce and such like the wolves, so when different races of wolves around the world were tamed, those wolves had already adapted to their individual enviroments, and with that, and cross breeding, there are many different types of dog today. But that didn't start till about 10,000 B.C. if i remember my hisrotry correctly, so essentially back in the time of Adam and Eve, there were no dogs, only wolves.
now whiel writing this i was trying to keep some of my ideas from possibly conflicting while trying to get it out before forgetting it so hang in there.
What i am trying to get at is, that there very well could have only been single celled organisms in life with God there, and he gave them the essentials and knowledge and ability to grow and evolve and adapt to their surrondings as needed to stay alive and further their race. It evolved and evolved and did the whole process to where it is now the animal kingdom of the earth. Now you say "no, he created each animals" like i beleive it said in Genesis (i haven't read my bible in a long time, someone help me) well, think of it this way, if you were the a human, the very first human, didn't even kow shame enough to wear clothing , woudl you know about advanced molecular biology? Well the basis behind what i was theoriesing was that God could have explained it to where they would understand it. After all, even if they were all one, single celled organism at one time, he did create them, even before they evolved and changed into what he presented to Adam and Eve.
Now for the last item, you say "well in the bible it states that the earth was created in 6 days and the animals in two days, (first the ocean life and then the rest) evolution takes millions of yeas" Well i think , once again i think God used siplification so that the humans would understand him. He started off with the Ocean life, correct? well the first cells and creatures formed in the ocean, and then they adapted for land as they needed. As for the time discripency, God is Omnipotent (everywhere, anywhere , all the time, any time, all knowing, all powerful) right? so essentially, he does in fact exist out of time. i don't know the exact calculations and ai don't know if anybody could, but perhaps the 11 Billion years or so that the Universe has been around for, was only the equivilant of 6 days worth of work for God ( pondering what he wanted to make, and doing it )
Alright, that is my theory basically, i'm sure there are plenty of holes in it. Feel free to bring in objective commenting, poke holes if you any possible
1. Your "Thoery" has been thought of before. And Basicly what you are doing with it is trying to make evolution fit in the Bible. Not only is this theory ludacris but it denies the whole purpose of creation (which you are semi-acknoledging is true), not to mention God. You see if there was death before Adam and Eve then God's rule about not eating the fruit was empty. Therefore even if they didn't eat it they would die.
2. If you are/were a Christian you should have rejected the whole idea about evolution from the start. And you'd have never thought up this already thought up theory.
3. Yes there are kinds, for instance Dogs, cats, and humans. Now within those kinds are species. Now we all know there are different species of dog (canine) like wolf, dingo, and the comman lab. Yes a wolf species could have eventuly been bred to produce a new species (varity). I agree with that because it can be explained with Biblical principles.
4. With the days you start with the Biblical creation and then fit in the evolutionary creation. This is totaly a bad design, because in the first place says the man knows when things happened (eg. when dinos died or when other things that have happened that we find with archology). Now we really don't know those date because we weren't there to see then happen our selfs.
If you are a Christian then you'd believe God is all powerful (this has been said in the other tread). Now you try to explain him to make him seem more and more less powerful. And that is totaly wrong, GOD IS ALL POWEFUL. Just because a murderer isn't found out doesn't mean that he didn't kill. It doesn't change the fact that he killed someone, even if he wasn't convicted or if he was.
Now lets seperate the Christian Bible, science, and Evolution like this - [Bible] [science] [Evolution].
Some if not all try to slam the Bible down by using one part of it and then slaming it with their aguments. In the process the acknowldge that part of the Bible is true but then ignore other parts. Like creation in the previous tread. You took the creation days and then claimed that God got things the way they are by Evlolution. Well that doesn't work because if there are pillars holding up a roof and half of them are granite and the other half sponge the building wouldn't stay up for long.
In the theory pf Evlolution people say that everything changed and changed. Then they claim science proves that it happened. But if science can prove Evolution happened how come it can't prove that the Bible it true?
Make no mistake. Science is based on Biblical princeples. And Evolution is an escape from reality and rooted in mans sin.
I thank God that he gave me a mind that can decipher this mess.
And thats all I have to say for now.
