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Your profile says that you are a Christian. Why then do you use terms like 'simpleton' to describe fellow Christians? Perhaps you should refresh your understanding of the fruit of the Spirit, as detailed in Galatians 5. There is no need to insult those with whom you disagree.
Jesus used far worse terms when rebuking His followers...
 
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I have no need to defend what I have not asserted. You asserted no change in the speed of light. Burden of proof falls to you.
We would not expect that you can...
 

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#2 is nixed for scriptural reasons alone. God does not create with the deception of old age - that would make Himself deceitful. Adam & Eve were raised as children. Jesus' humanity was conceived in the womb, born as a babe, and raised as a child, etc, etc ..
yes, a valid possible objection, that God does not decieve.

imo, it could be countered with the idea that God said how he did it in Genesis, so the only people decieved are those who disregard the writing.
also, God counsels samuel to decieve saul, so maybe God isn't against deception in some cases.

were adam & eve raised as children? or as babies?
is it 'raised' or 'created'... do you believe they were first born to non-human parents?

too, there's Jesus turning water into wine. wine is an 'aged' substance. or, maybe he turned water into wine-flavored liquid, but then that would be somewhat deceptive.
 
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Here is the problem with bowman supposed proof.

If God created the earth "Aged" and created the light from each star no matter how far it is from earth to show its light on the earth (to be a light for the night) then all his so called secular "prove" of an old earth is not proof at all. it would not take light years for all that stuff to happen. God created it like it was already light years.

OEC's do not like to look at the supernatural They reject it.. I giess they deny the power of God to do those things. WHich is sad really.
 
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yes, a valid possible objection, that God does not decieve.

imo, it could be countered with the idea that God said how he did it in Genesis, so the only people decieved are those who disregard the writing.
Gen 1 is a sequence showing formation....not appearance of age.




also, God counsels samuel to decieve saul, so maybe God isn't against deception in some cases.
Then again....Samuel is not God...



were adam & eve raised as children? or as babies?
is it 'raised' or 'created'... do you believe they were first born to non-human parents?
The Hebrew indicates vast passages of time required in their upbringing, of which, would not be required if they were each fully formed and educated.




too, there's Jesus turning water into wine. wine is an 'aged' substance. or, maybe he turned water into wine-flavored liquid, but then that would be somewhat deceptive.
Changing liquid from one form to another is hardly deception.
 
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Untenable excuse; you aren't Jesus. Your demeaning attitude is inconsistent with your claim to Christianity.

The old mantra that if you aren't a YEC, you aren't a Christian, does not fly here...




Dodge. Re-read my first sentence.
YEC worldview will soon go the way of the flat-earth society.
 

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Cosmology.

Modern astronomy observes the events of things which occurred in the past. Looking into the heavens is like looking back in time.





By applying his equations, and the resultant predictions thereof, to the study of cosmology.

Any theory is only as good as its predictive power.

It took 100 years for physicists to confirm all of the predictions emanating from Einstein's equations...many have tried to disprove the predictions, but each and every one has held true due to observable phenomenon.

The speed of light has always remained constant....and could NOT have ever changed due to E = mc^2....this is one thing that utterly destroys a YEC worldview...as they like to fantasize that the speed was different in the past in order to accommodate their incorrect interpretation of scripture.

Your smart phone. Did you know that Einstein's Relativity is what makes it work?

We didn't put a man on the moon by believing in a young Universe, etc, etc, etc...

I'm not sure if we're communicating here or not...

"Looking into the heavens is like looking back in time" is valid only if things are the same today as they were back then.

at least I think that's logical.




"The speed of light has always remained constant....and could NOT have ever changed due to E = mc^2"
this would be an excellent example. could the speed of light have changed, but other things changed as well, such that when we observe the data, it appears the speed of light hasn't changed?
 
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Here is the problem with bowman supposed proof.

If God created the earth "Aged" and created the light from each star no matter how far it is from earth to show its light on the earth (to be a light for the night) then all his so called secular "prove" of an old earth is not proof at all. it would not take light years for all that stuff to happen. God created it like it was already light years.


Non-sequitur.

OEC's do not like to look at the supernatural They reject it.. I giess they deny the power of God to do those things. WHich is sad really.

Another non-sequitur.

A creationist, by definition, believes in a Creator.
 
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I'm not sure if we're communicating here or not...

"Looking into the heavens is like looking back in time" is valid only if things are the same today as they were back then.

at least I think that's logical.




"The speed of light has always remained constant....and could NOT have ever changed due to E = mc^2"
this would be an excellent example. could the speed of light have changed, but other things changed as well, such that when we observe the data, it appears the speed of light hasn't changed?

That's the importance of Einstein's Relativity.

Its called 'relativity' because its relative to any vantage point in the Universe.
 

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As a defender of YEC, show us where the speed of light has EVER been demonstrated to have changed.

Good luck...
I don't think it's incumbent upon the holder of that position to prove the speed of light changed.
imo, it would be like saying to someone else who's a solipsist, "prove to me that nothing exists outside your consciousness."

Peter implies that the statement "all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation" is false, so there is at least some reason to doubt.
 

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The old mantra that if you aren't a YEC, you aren't a Christian, does not fly here...
Whether that mantra 'flies here' is irrelevant, as I wasn't asserting it. The idea that you can claim to be a Christian, and insult fellow Christians, is not biblically sound. I'm surprised that you again try to change the subject.

YEC worldview will soon go the way of the flat-earth society.
Another dodge. Try dealing with what I actually wrote, rather than with your caricature of your assumption of what I believe. You may call me whatever you like, denigrate my views, lump me in with others, and the burden of proof for a constant speed of light is still on you, no matter how many times you dodge it. You made the assertion, you defend it.
 
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[/B][/COLOR]Non-sequitur.



Another non-sequitur.

A creationist, by definition, believes in a Creator.


Nope your wrong again.

If you believed in the supernatural You would not so proudly say YEC have no basis of reality, or hate on us like you do. You would have to humbly admit, we may be right, Maybe God did supernatural do those things, we will not know until we talk to him face to face.


But no, Since you have been here, Your pride on this subject shows itself. Just read the last posts.. Seems like another one sees you for who you are. You have a habit of doing that.
 
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I don't think it's incumbent upon the holder of that position to prove the speed of light changed.imo, it would be like saying to someone else who's a solipsist, "prove to me that nothing exists outside your consciousness."
It is if they want to used the term 'supposed' in relation to the most proven principles in all of physics.
 

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Gen 1 is a sequence showing formation....not appearance of age.
(I'm gonna answer your complete post in several posts. I think this will keep there from being too many ideas in a single post.)

it wouldn't just be Genesis 1, but also the geneologies that are broken down into years, and some passages from other parts of the scriptures.
(Peter says the earth was formed out of water.)


myself, I've never seen both a literal reading of the scriptures and an old earth put together without bending something.
 
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Whether that mantra 'flies here' is irrelevant, as I wasn't asserting it. The idea that you can claim to be a Christian, and insult fellow Christians, is not biblically sound. I'm surprised that you again try to change the subject.
You are the only one to use the word 'insult'.

Interesting that you would feel the need...



Another dodge. Try dealing with what I actually wrote, rather than with your caricature of your assumption of what I believe. You may call me whatever you like, denigrate my views, lump me in with others, and the burden of proof for a constant speed of light is still on you, no matter how many times you dodge it. You made the assertion, you defend it.
Your favorite term...'dodge'....like the cars that you seem to idolize...
 

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Then again....Samuel is not God...
it's not about samuel being God, it's an example of God advising someone to decieve someone else, thus implying that God is sometimes in favor of deception.
 
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Nope your wrong again.

If you believed in the supernatural You would not so proudly say YEC have no basis of reality, or hate on us like you do. You would have to humbly admit, we may be right, Maybe God did supernatural do those things, we will not know until we talk to him face to face.


But no, Since you have been here, Your pride on this subject shows itself. Just read the last posts.. Seems like another one sees you for who you are. You have a habit of doing that.

Your defensive posture implicates your position as a weak one...yes?
 
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it's not about samuel being God, it's an example of God advising someone to decieve someone else, thus implying that God is sometimes in favor of deception.
Following that logic...then God created the laws of physics with an inherent bent towards age-deception...