scourge99
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Day age creationism has plenty of contradictions with what we have discovered studying nature (science).A young earth creationist would see a clear contradiction. Religion is telling them that the world is 7,000 years old, and even gives a detailed linage to substantiated it's claim. Then they see that science tells them that the earth is 4.5 billion years old and provides evidence in support for that claim.
Typically, day-age creationists are creationists first, because the authority of the bible has a higher impact on their immediate day-to-day life then do some fossils in a museum in another state, in their view.Typically, young-earth creationists are creationists first, because the authority of biblical commands have a higher impact on their immediate day-to-day life then do some fossils in a museum in another state, in their view.
Day age creationism has just as many conflicts with what we have discovered about the world (science) as young earth creationism does!! The criticism is not about 24 hour days but of the sequence of events. No timescale makes Genesis any more valid because it contradicts what we know in just about every way.What I enjoy about day-age creationism is that it resolves the conflict between faith and science in such a way that neither the faith nor science have to change at all. The person has to change, though, which is something a literalist would have a hard time doing.
Look at what the bible says:
1) Earth was formed before the sun
2) An aquatic universe
3) Grass and flowering plants coming before all other plants when they were in fact late arrivals
4) An early watery earth
5) The sun coming after the planets and after plants were already on earth
6) Birds and whales preceding other animals.
How much evidence and studies do you have to disregard to think this story is an accurate portrayal of events? It should be painfully obvious that it is a myth from ancient people making guesswork that has since been proven false in modern times.
http://www.debatepolitics.com/relig...ism-almost-goofy-young-earth-creationism.html
1) Earth was formed before the sun
Day 1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.And the earth was without form, and void;
Day 4: And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
2) An aquatic universe
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
3) Grass and flowering plants coming before all other plants when they were in fact late arrivals
Day 3: And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
4) An early watery earth
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
5) The sun coming after the planets and after plants were already on earth
Day 1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.And the earth was without form, and void;
Day 3: And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Day 4: And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
6) Birds and whales preceding other animals.
Day 5: And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Day 6: And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good
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