The world was created 6000 years ago I was told at school by my teacher, according to the Bible. Is it true that the fosils in the rocks were creatures who did not get on the Arc.
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Dinosaurs actually lived preceding bible time and their remains are a decently sized loophole of the book. Comedien Bill Hicks once referenced the topic when he offered a fictional conversation between himself and a believer in bible time. It was a one word question and read: "Dinosaurs?"\n\nBy the way, there were no Dinosaurs at the time of Noah's arc.
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Adam and Eve were the FIRST people... that did not mean that God could not have created more the same way. Its just a thought:)
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about 4,400 years old ,you know when "the vallies sank down and the mountains rose"during the flood according to the bible .oh and by the way all so called dating methods(c14,potasium/argon,u232)all give outragous dates.they dated a living snaile at 10,000 years ,i mean come on
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We're made in the spiritual image of God, but that doesn't mean we ARE God; we make mistakes.  The Bible does have some internal inconsistancies, but it's also about 4000 years old.  You can't expect a story to be reproduced perfectly all throughout that time.  And I don't think it really matters anyway, since the creation story is more meant to be a parable than a factual history.  The message is more important than the individual details.
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In the first place, god did not create the world in 7 days -- or any other period of time.  The universe is 13.7 billion years old; the earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
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There aren't any dinosaurs in the bible. They just look back at comments about dragons and say 'See dinosaurs! We knew it all along.'. Um, no. \nBy the way, there are unicorns in the bible:\n\nNum 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. \n\nWell, now we all know that unicorns exist. Thank you informative and fact filled bible.
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Ok well, firstly evolution is not my religion and the sole purpose for my existence. Wouldn't be the end of the world if it's not true, though I may lose a lot of my love of nature.\n\nWell... fossils can show that there were creatures similar to creatures we have today (but not the same) that are extinct now. \n\nSkeletons of neanderthal and homo erectus species have been found also, showing that beings very similar to humans have existed and then become extinct. By seeing the brow ridge on these skulls, and the different shape (but without damage and cracking) it is plain to see that these were not skulls bashed in or damaged in any way. \n\nWe also share genes with many other animals and plants. \n\nWe can also see stars billions of light years away. If the planet was only approx 6000 yrs old the light would not have reached the earth yet.\n\nIf you put nutrients in water in a vacuum, amino acids begin to form (I do not know the exact primeval soup experiement, but according to scientists, considering how quickly the amino acids formed, cells could reasonably be believed to form given the millions of yrs this earth has existed.) \n\nAlso, look at our skeletons! Many animals are linked to one another in bone structure etc. Look at a horses legs now - the chestnuts (hardened lumps) used to be their toes but are of no use now, halfway up their legs! Though you may say that is micro-evolution, I disagree. If we had a 6-toed, 3-toed, 4-toed or even 2-toed horselike animal today, I think it would be considered a different species.\n\nHowever, in the end, no one will believe what you tell them to - it is a choice. Christians believed in geocentric astronomy years after copernicus proved our galaxy to be heliocentric. The Bible mentions holding the corners of the world and tossing off sinners and suchlike - if it is G-d's word, surely he would've made it clear that the world was round?\n\nHope you're having a good day, you're asking politely :)\n\nx
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People unable or too lazy to think for themselves believe the nonsense that is written in the Bible.  They would have you believe that there have never been dinosaurs because Noah didn't take any into the Ark.\nAs to Adam and Eve, did they pass on the tale of their origins so that it could be written down thousands of years later when man finally learned to write?  Pardon my chuckle.
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Of course they did.....\n\nWe probably have some of like them in this day too..... Look at the Aborigine (for example).\n\nBut, remember, there was a world that existed before the world we know today.... (("the earth was "void" and "without form"= a sign that it was destroyed at some time.....)) \n\nSo, let that tell you that some were here.... what they did with that life, we don't know.....  What we do know is that they are not alive today.... but we do have remnants of what used to be.....\n\n\nYour sister,\nGinger
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This answer was the most funny:\n\n"The whole Bible is the truth. Science is not always right you know. Ancient scientist once believed that the earth was flat! I think we have come a long way! :) "\n\nSo according to her, progress is going back to stone age thinking.\n\nSkygod make world in 7 day. Me made of dirt. You made of me rib. Whoowhooo. Me want banana.
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I believe that science has established the continental drift, and that dinosaurs and humans never lived at the same time. As for christians believing in it well, the Bible doesn't say anything about either but if they believe the thing about dinos & human or disbelieve continental drift, then they must not pay too much attention to science or history.
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One could say the universe was created in 7 days.  A day is one rotation of the world.  How is it that God created some of these things when there was no globe in which to register this amount of time.  The bible also says that 1000 years are not even a day to god.  If god was the only one around then time was mostly on his own watch, most likely that is.  So no I don't believe the whole 7 days thing.\n\nI like biblical literalist.  I wonder if the first guy believes the sun rotates around the world as it states in the bible.
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I don't put my faith in scientists. The same scientists say that the Earth is billions of years old and then they change the dates over and over. The truth is that no one really knows, how could they? Scientists said that certain fish died off millions of years ago, but they pull up fish off the coast of Madagascar that should have been extinct. I don't trust scientists because they claim to have facts when in reality they are theories.
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the earth is 4 600 000 000 years old.
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This is dervied from something called "Usher's Chronology." During the Middle Ages, a monk by name of Usher, thought that he could take the various geneologies in the Bible, add them all up, and come up with the age of the earth. Since almost all of the geneologies were passed down from father to son orally, and since the earth began long before human history began, his conclusion ( about 6,000 years ) was ludicrous. \n\nSome people still choose to believe this for reasons known only to them.
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its only like 6,000 years old because it has been about 2000 years since Jesus came to earth and about 4,000 years before God created the world and the universe check with some bible experts
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This is a question that seems to come up a lot, but I love it anyway!\nIf the Bible is really God's word, then there is no problem at all with a literal 6 day creation story. (If you try to change that, then you have death before Adam sinned, and Eve could not be the mother of all living, etc ... disbelieving a literal 6 day creation will make you throw out more of the rest of the Bible than you get to keep.)\nI agree with the perspective that God could have created the earth with the appearance of age, created stars with light-years of light coming from them already, etc... I mean, if God can create everything, He can create it however he likes. (Side note on the age of the earth, did you know that according to evolution the earth is ageing millions of years per year? - Ask that one sometime!)\n\nBack when Darwin introduced the theory of Evolution to modern history (the idea goes back WAY before Darwin, but that's another story), he stated that for his theory to work, there must be evidence, and speculated on what it COULD look like - None exists today. Christians really dropped the ball on this one, and let this "theory" become equivalent to "science" (science must be observable and repeatable).\n\nIs there PROOF for creation? No (again, scientific proof must be observable and repeatable), there is not PROOF, but there is a lot more reasonable evidence that there is for creation.\n\nRegarding dinosours, the Bible actually speaks of them (and dragons) in the book of Job.\nSome remote cultures (The Congo, the Amazon, etc.) have recent (20th Century) stories of dinosaurs still living.\n\nThere's a lot more, but I don't want to get too long on you, so check out the link below for TONS more info, on this subject.