Young Earth Creation. Does it matter what you believe?

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eternally-gratefull

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No wonder us christians are seen as anti-science. With such magnificent anti-scientific rhetoric as seen in this thread it would be hard not to see christians as antiscience.
who is preaching antiscience? Most of are beliefs are not just blindly following people. Most of us has studied this for years. including reading writings of all sides of the debate.

you do realise that the more we find scientifically. the more support YEC gets?
 
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DC, I am not directing this towards you, just so you know. It would seem you have a strong opinion on everything, but not this?

What you do believe about creation does affect your eternal salvation in Christ.

I believe many Christians who support the GAP Theory and Theistic Evolution are taking the broad road and if they believe these things are not really saved.

The modern day false prophets wear lab coats.
Hey Josh.....Oh I do have a view, but the view I have does not change what I believe about JESUS......He is Lord and savior, creator and sustainer, the beginner and finisher of my eternal salvation......I have acknowledged him by faith and he has promised to give me eternal life based upon said belief.....Having said that.....I know God created it all and whether it was 6 actual 24 hour periods labeled as days or an original creation to be wrecked and renovated in 6 24 hour periods labeled as days is irrelevant to me.......I have bigger fish to fry bro......
 
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Hey Josh.....Oh I do have a view, but the view I have does not change what I believe about JESUS......He is Lord and savior, creator and sustainer, the beginner and finisher of my eternal salvation......I have acknowledged him by faith and he has promised to give me eternal life based upon said belief.....Having said that.....I know God created it all and whether it was 6 actual 24 hour periods labeled as days or an original creation to be wrecked and renovated in 6 24 hour periods labeled as days is irrelevant to me.......I have bigger fish to fry bro......
Fair dinkum mate!
 
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No wonder us christians are seen as anti-science. With such magnificent anti-scientific rhetoric as seen in this thread it would be hard not to see christians as antiscience.
Ok for me, the creation VS. evolution controversy is not a science vs. religion conflict. It is a worldview vs. worldview conflict. There are 2 types of science: operational and historical. The controversey arises from differing assumptions in historical science.

Operational or observational science is the repeatable day to day scientific investigation I recognize as everyday science. Historical or origins science is the imagined reconstruction of the unobserved past based on circumstantial evidence existing in the present.

what say you?
 
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eternally-gratefull

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No doubt you can list numerous examples.

Let's hear some.
Why so you can deny them. You think we are stupid.

Some has been shown already, you either completely ignored them, or downplayed them.

Like I said earlier, You have no open to heart. why are you even here? I have yet to see you do anything but slam YEC's. I am amazed at the grace you have been shown by this site.

if someone is really interested. they are free to ask.
 
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Re: Run from it...

actually i did provide examples of the flaws in old earth creation models...but that other thread was quite cluttered so you might not have seen it...

in any case i copied a post of mine from that thread into this thread...go back to page three to read my criticisms of old earth models...

All you have done is given your soap-box editorial.....no verifiable references whatsoever.

Take a moment to hand-select your very best googled example of where OEC supposedly goes awry...and then defend your selection...so that we know that you comprehend what you regurgitate...
 

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Why so you can deny them. You think we are stupid.

Some has been shown already, you either completely ignored them, or downplayed them.

Like I said earlier, You have no open to heart. why are you even here? I have yet to see you do anything but slam YEC's. I am amazed at the grace you have been shown by this site.

if someone is really interested. they are free to ask.
I know right? To be very honest I don't know how he's avoided being banned for spamming the same thing over and over and over and over and over, and like you said I've seen many people try to hold an actual civil conversation with him to be met with a brick wall or backhanded insult to their intelligence. He is the first person I've come across here that truly made me love the ignore option. You don't even have to wonder what his hidden comments say, it's mocking people for believing the 6,000 year old earth, and/or humans and dinosaurs living together. I have never seen a troll of this magnitude and that added so little to any conversation last so long here. I love not seeing his comments.
 
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Old Earth Creationists can back up their view with Scripture.

Just as Young Earth Creationists can.

And so can Theistic Evolutionists.

Of course, each is going to insist that their interpretation of Scripture is the correct one.

But then you go to science and Young Earth Creationists fail.

There is nothing in reputable peer-reviewed scientific journals claiming that the earth is around 6,000 years old, dinosaurs coexisted with humans, or that there was a global flood 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.

Yup....when was the last time the venerable 'Nature' agreed with the 6K figure...?
 
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Why so you can deny them. You think we are stupid.

Some has been shown already, you either completely ignored them, or downplayed them.

Like I said earlier, You have no open to heart. why are you even here? I have yet to see you do anything but slam YEC's. I am amazed at the grace you have been shown by this site.

if someone is really interested. they are free to ask.
LOL.

That's what I thought.

You won't list any examples because you know I can debunk them.

You should go back to bashing Catholics on that Catholic heresy thread and take Jimbone with you to "Like" your posts.
 
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RachelBibleStudent

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Old Earth Creationists can back up their view with Scripture.

Just as Young Earth Creationists can.

And so can Theistic Evolutionists.

Of course, each is going to insist that their interpretation of Scripture is the correct one.

But then you go to science and Young Earth Creationists fail.

There is nothing in reputable peer-reviewed scientific journals claiming that the earth is around 6,000 years old, dinosaurs coexisted with humans, or that there was a global flood 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.
um...i hate to rain on your parade but...

old earth creationism hasn't exactly gotten to establish its claims in peer reviewed science journals either!

i mean when is the last time you read something like 'the horse sequence as an incremental series of divine creations' in the journal of evolutionary biology?

now if we can dispense with any further pseudo academic smoke blowing from you...maybe we can actually have that scientific discussion of the evidence that you have been avoiding for the past couple of weeks...
 
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RachelBibleStudent

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Yup....when was the last time the venerable 'Nature' agreed with the 6K figure...?
when was the last time 'nature' agreed that 'God used evolution' as the theistic evolutionists claim? when was the last time 'nature' agreed that the fossil record shows an incremental series of divine creations instead of a process of evolution as the progressive creationists claim?

i will say the same thing to you that i said to jackh...stop with the smoke blowing appeals to the academic journals...and actually show that you are willing to discuss the science...
 
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RachelBibleStudent

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jaybird88

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there seem to be many ancient citys found in the last 20 years. that one in turkey, Gobekli Tepe is said to be at least 8k yrs old.
 
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RachelBibleStudent

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What has happened when YEC scientific arguments make it to federal courts?
science is not decided in court...that approach is directly counter to the scientific method...

or have you forgotten about these guys?

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RachelBibleStudent

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It's interesting that the Gap theory was popular during the same period liberalism was rampant.
Another attempt of the Church bowing at Darwin's altar.
it is also interesting that gap theory was popular when paleontology and geology were in their infancy...

back when people could still argue that gap theory fit the scientific data...
 
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RachelBibleStudent

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Then you YECs have a serious problem.

What is your credible scientific information that there was a global flood 4,000 to 5,000 years ago?

The book of Henry Morris on flood geology? Henry Morris, the father of the modern YEC cult movement, who founded ICR, and who got his phony flood geology from Seventh-Day Adventists?

LOL.
i am just going to post the same thing i posted today on another thread to refute your faulty logic...read it and don't respond this time until you actually understand...


in high school i took calculus... now suppose i taught some calculus to a bunch of people here on this site...

would you then claim that everyone on christian chat 'got their calculus from' my high school teacher?

no...because that line of reasoning...the one you have been using here...is absurd...
 
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RachelBibleStudent

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Do you find a 6,000 world, dinosaurs coexisting with humans, and a global flood 4,000 to 5,000 years ago in science books used in public schools?

Do you find evidence of a 6,000 world, dinosaurs coexisting with humans, and a global flood 4,000 to 5,000 years ago at your major museums like the Smithsonian and Carnegie?

Do you find research papers in reputable scientific journals with evidence of a 6,000 world, dinosaurs coexisting with humans, and a global flood 4,000 to 5,000 years ago?
i don't know...personally i'm still waiting for that old earth creationist 'God made the big bang' show to debut at the hayden planetarium...

your glass house is approaching structural failure...
 
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RachelBibleStudent

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What have major federal court decisions said about your YEC pseudoscience?
major federal court decisions once said that human beings could be property...

this is why courts don't get a vote in scientific debates...