see, i can jive with this... spiritually speaking. but i cant even begin to understand people who truly believe this planet (and the universe) is only 6,000 human years old.... absolutely blows my mind.
Its the same reason that some people dress up their dogs in little outfits and let them get "makeovers." Humans LOVE to transfer human emotions, feelings, points of view, and sensibilities to Non human things. How can anyone imagine the effort or lack of effort an allmighty, all knowing God who existed with the Universe was a void, would take to form the world? They can't, so they tranfer the human point of view to an allmighty God and write a story that was probably spiritually divined from the allmighty in human terms that can be understood and passed down. Thus the billions of years of solar system and earth formation, terraforming, genetic evolution and birth of humans is condensed down to an easy to understand and follow one week of creation. The basic premise is the same...God created the earth and all its creatures, in a particular order, and it took an allmighty, infinite, all knowing being so much energy, he actually had to rest on the last "day." The story does NOT go into the detail that God may have used to create such vast forces nor what God's interpretation of a week may be.
or maybe it's divinely inspired...and, as Jesus spoke in parables to help us understand things, this too is parable. the important points of the story aren't the fine details. the important part is: Creator...created creation...including man...man turned his back on Creator. that's the bigger story. and the rest of the Bible tells the story from there. i'm annoyed by those who treat it as a science text. who choose to be inflexible in their interpretations of this ancient narrative. when you pick it apart to make some point you lose its power...the power is the story.
you believe the world is 1,200 years old? i have a 1 word question to ask you... DINOSAUR? if the world is 1,200 years old and dinosaurs existed you would think it would have been mentioned in the bible at some point. "And lo Jesus and the disciples walked to Nazareth. But the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus... with a splinter in his paw. And O the disciples did run a shriekin': 'What a big ****ing lizard, Lord!' But Jesus was unafraid and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus's paw and the big lizard became his friend. "And Jesus sent him to Scotland where he lived in a loch for O so many years inviting thousands of American tourists to bring their fat ****ing families and their fat dollar bills. "And oh Scotland did praise the Lord. Thank you Lord, thank you Lord. Thank you Lord." - bill hicks
IMHO, we are still in the seventh day of creation and God is still resting. You can all chew on this theory. A PROOF OF GOD USING THE LAW OF RELATIVITY
On both sides... Have you read The Meaning of Creation by Conrad Hyers ? I read it two or three years ago and it is still one of the best books I've ever read on the subject.
this is semantics. as another poster responded, why not spell dog C-A-T? We have the words day, weeks, months, seasons, year, decade, century, etc. for a reason. Year doesn't mean a billion years when you want it to. MadMax's parable argument makes more sense.
My guess is you probably indirectly care, since how old the world is likely has a number of effects on all aspects of science, thought, etc. SImply put, if we found out that the world really actually truly was 6,000 years old, that'd news would have some pretty serious implications you'd definitely care about.
I certainly believe God created the universe. I don't pretend to know when that was, but since He lives outside of time, it's right now to Him. (Try to get your mind around that.)
Oh, and if you are talking about the Church, then you should probably do some research to see what they actually believe concerning evolution.
The Book of Job (earliest written in the Bible) mentions a dinosaur (and a dragon). It may have been a legendary creature then, but interesting nonetheless.
I debated whether or not to capitalize it or not. I'm not Catholic and I don't get into many typed religious discussions so I wasn't sure.
How can anyone believe the world is 6000 years old when they have all those carbon dating and rock dating techniques?
