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Good morning father as we have no proof or understanding of an eternal god, why should we believe. With the scientific theories we do have proof, and learning all the time. When we don’t know, we say so and don’t make something up. Science is learning always we never get to the end.
Answer to Question 497 You say that "With the scientific theories we do have proof". This is a contradiction because a theory is simply that - a theory which has yet to be proved. Why then should we believe in an unproved theory that someone invented to explain their atheist view of creation? It is no better than asking someone to believe in the Genesis version of creation. Neither can be proved so it comes down to faith. At least the Genesis account gives us a creator God who created the whole world and the universe. Science only gives us a Big Bang without telling us who or what caused it to happen, and then it gives us theories about evolution which have been proven by other scientists as false, but in spite of these false theories they are still taught in schools to our children as a true explanation on the evolution of the world and man.
Same member I find the creation of the whole universe in seven days unbelievable. As we have proof that species evolved over millions of years, and we are evolving all the time. Science doesn't explain everything and doesn't say it has all the answers as religion does.
Reply The bible tells us that God created the world in six days. Now of course the Lord, being all powerful could have created the world in one day or even in an instant. Instead of saying let there be light, he could have commanded “ Let there be the world and the entire world would have come into creation. But God’s all wisdom desired to create the world in six days, he is the creator, the reasons are his and not ours to question. Now when Holy Scripture says six days “ and there was evening and there was morning, the first day, and the second day and the third day and so on, it does not say that these days were solar days, containing twenty four hours, for the sun had not yet appeared to separate the days from the nights. The sun appeared on the fourth day. Thus these days are not 24 hour days as we have today, but rather they were very long periods of time possibly hundreds, thousands or millions of years. What scripture calls days are not the days of our daily life, but entire centuries for as we hear in the Psalms “ For a thousand years in thy sight are as the yesterday which is past and as a watch in the night.” (Ps. 89.4)
But you again say that science has proof of species evolving over millions of years. This is only a theory of evolution, there is absolutely no proof that any species has evolved especially man. In fact many scientist now have done away with the theory of evolution. If man evolved from the apes, why are there still apes today, why have they not evolved into something closer to man? Man is a psychosomatic being, in other words he is both body and soul. For something to evolve there has to be something already there to evolve from. In the case of the body it was created from dust or according to the theory of evolution it came about over millions of years from organic molecules. The body therefore in both cases had a beginning in something else, but what about the soul. The soul according to the Bible was created from nothing; “God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” The soul is immortal and therefore cannot evolve except in its relationship to God. From its creation it was created in the image and likeness of God and thus from an evolutionary viewpoint it was already perfect. Man as already mentioned is both body and soul or half body and half soul. Can therefore the one half evolve without the other half? If man is both body and soul then when did the soul come into existence? If as we believe they were created at the same time and if man evolved from the ape then did the “ape-man” have a brain with a below the average intelligence while at the same time having a eternal soul with the intellect and wisdom which God bestowed upon it as part of the “image”? I think this argument clearly shows that man did not evolve from the ape or any of the “Homo family” evolutionists would have us believe.
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