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How could a sensible person believe in the bible?

borgerdipa

New Member
I saw this preacher Ken Hamm or something trying to teach kids that dinosaurs and humans lived together. I can't understand how he can defend that at all. He believes that if it's not in the bible, it never happened. Personally i can't understand how people believe in the bible. Honestly how could you believe a book that says God created the world about 10,000 years ago? Too bad for them because life fossils have been discovered that date back billions of years. Even the skeletons of modern humans date back before the time of Adam and Eve. I believe in evolution, but that doesn't mean i dont believe in God like all of these evangelists think. They have all just been horribly mislead since birth and are now proceeding to brainwash the children of our future.
 

joeboonda

Well-Known Member
A lot of scientists recognize from fossils of human footprints in dinosaur footprints among other things that man did indeed coexist with dinosaurs. Billions of years is pretty hard to prove especially when we have found dinosaur bones with living red blood cells. Who has been brainwashed since childhood? Every year I went to school and every year they told me, "long long ago in a time far away a frog turned into a prince." In other words, "billions and billions of years ago a living cell was formed in the primordial soup and now here we are and your uncle was a monkey.
 

Random

Well-Known Member
A lot of scientists recognize from fossils of human footprints in dinosaur footprints among other things that man did indeed coexist with dinosaurs. Billions of years is pretty hard to prove especially when we have found dinosaur bones with living red blood cells. Who has been brainwashed since childhood? Every year I went to school and every year they told me, "long long ago in a time far away a frog turned into a prince." In other words, "billions and billions of years ago a living cell was formed in the primordial soup and now here we are and your uncle was a monkey.

I like that, very good, very subtle. Frubals. :)
 

Scott1

Well-Known Member
IPersonally i can't understand how people believe in the bible.
Not all Christians believe like this preacher does.... in fact, the large majority of us (1 billion Roman Catholics) have no problem at all with evolution as science.
Honestly how could you believe a book that says God created the world about 10,000 years ago?
Again.... not all Christians take the Bible literally... our faith is 2,000 years of preaching and teaching... it's more than just one book.

Peace in Christ,
S
 

borgerdipa

New Member
I just don't understand how some people might think you are an aethist if you believe in evolution. I believe God created the world millions of years ago and it has slowly evolved into what it is today.
 

Booko

Deviled Hen
I saw this preacher Ken Hamm or something trying to teach kids that dinosaurs and humans lived together. I can't understand how he can defend that at all. He believes that if it's not in the bible, it never happened. Personally i can't understand how people believe in the bible. Honestly how could you believe a book that says God created the world about 10,000 years ago? Too bad for them because life fossils have been discovered that date back billions of years. Even the skeletons of modern humans date back before the time of Adam and Eve. I believe in evolution, but that doesn't mean i dont believe in God like all of these evangelists think. They have all just been horribly mislead since birth and are now proceeding to brainwash the children of our future.

You have mistaken someone who practices hillbilly hermeneusis on the text for the actual text itself.
 

doppelganger

Through the Looking Glass
You're absolutely right. Because nobody "believes" in Evolution
When they don't understand it they do. Same with "believing" in the Bible.

When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer. - Stevie Wonder
 

Booko

Deviled Hen
I just don't understand how some people might think you are an aethist if you believe in evolution. I believe God created the world millions of years ago and it has slowly evolved into what it is today.

It's a problem that stems from the history in Europe where once religious leaders relied on an all-too-literal interpretation of Holy Writ and decided to quash certain scientific ideas that made them unhappy.

Now, their actions have nothing to do with the content of the Bible itself, but ever since then there have been some people who seem to want to continue living in the 16th century.

You would think that by now people might realize what a false dichotomy the whole thing is and find a way for religion and science to work together to profit humanity.
 

joeboonda

Well-Known Member
How could a sensible person believe in the bible?

The title of this thread is actually insulting to all who do believe in the Bible, fyi.
 

doppelganger

Through the Looking Glass
How could a sensible person believe in the bible?

The title of this thread is actually insulting to all who do believe in the Bible, fyi.

I don't believe you're correct about that.

Maybe a sensible person could pick up some pointers from members on how they can still be sensible and "believe" in the Bible. The title is a question.
 

Halcyon

Lord of the Badgers
Billions of years is pretty hard to prove especially when we have found dinosaur bones with living red blood cells.
Who told you this? This is simply a lie. I don't particularly care either way whether you personally believe in evolution or not, it doesn't affect me.
However, for both our sakes you shouldn't be spreading this particular fantasy - for mine because it causes confusion about evolution, and for yours because it makes you look foolish.

We have no dinosaur bones at all, not a single one. What we do have is a large collection of rocks which continue to hold the shape and structure of a dinosaur bone that once existed. None of these rocks hold blood cells, living or dead. On very rare occasion small protein fragments may survive, but these in no way constitute any form of living tissue.
I strongly suggest you visit a museum joeboonda, just so you can verify for yourself that fossilised bone is rock, not calcified tissue.

In other words, "billions and billions of years ago a living cell was formed in the primordial soup and now here we are and your uncle was a monkey.
Nearly, replace the word uncle with great-grandfather x10 to the power of 9 and you'd be nearer the mark.

I don't understand why certain people find the existence of their ancient ancestors so offensive. The fact that everyone alive on Earth today can trace their lineage back 3.5 billion years, and can claim the most amazing life forms of this planet as distant relatives should be a source of great pride. It certainly is to me.

I'd much rather recognise that my distant ancestors were simian, rather than pretend they were a handful of clay.
 
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