Kind of a silly thread, but seriously I find it ironic that Texas a big Oil state with big oil money and is beholden to the Oil industry and yet we have legislatures pushing Creation in School. So don't scientists who help find this stuff claim it took millions of years to create. preassure on life (plants and animals) that were around millions of years ago. if you believe in creation, where did oil come from?
Does pushing Creation in schools mean teaching the literal Genesis account? I thought it means teaching intelligent design as a plausible alternate theory.
Your problem is assuming these people listen to scientists. The anti-intellectual/anti-science crowd is more than happy to take advantage of all the technology that we get from science, but they refuse to believe that any scientist might ever actually know what he's talking about.
I'm just gonna ask...is there anyone here who believes the Genesis account literally? Maybe I'm missing someone, but I'm unaware of anyone here who talks about it being a literal 6 day creation. I don't care what people believe about that, but I feel like we're setting up a discussion with a group of people that don't post here.
Nonsense.....Oil is the residue leftover after god and the angels defeated the devil and destroyed all his demons.
When it comes to matters of principles vs. wealth, I always think of Upton Sinclair. "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
My conservative pastor told his congregation that God can make relatively new things look very old. He pointed to the chapel they had built a few years ago and how people thought it must've been built 100 years ago. Then he used the example of Jesus turning water into wine. How wine takes a long time to make and how Jesus made something instantaneously that appeared to be older than it actually was. I should start a blog: "***** My Pastor Says". PS - Not everybody who believes in creation believes in a "young earth". The view that dinosaurs existed millions of years ago and that they and other animals created our oil deposits over time isn't inconsistent with the view of creation many Christians hold, though it probably does go against the type of creationism conservatives are trying to push into public schools.
What kind of silly question is that? God put it there for us to use. He has faith that we will not run out before finding alternative solutions. It's quite simple. He loves us and has faith in us as we should love and have faith Him. Spoiler
I always assumed the 2 different creation accounts in Genesis made it clear that neither account was to be taken literally.
I guess this is why the old people at church look at me funny...or maybe its because I suggested the youth group name their band "Stephen Got Stoned"
