The question was meant to be a general inquiry thus not a refuting of scripture.
I understand that. Hence my response.
IOW, it's one thing to "believe" in something without objective evidence, but in the area of science we simply cannot assume our personal religious beliefs are scientifically. If one disagrees with this, then they need to produce objectively derived evidence based on observations and/or testing.
There is enough objective evidence for faith, which are both observable and testable.
The thing about most scientific beliefs, which you seem to be promoting, is that we never observe them. Nor can we test them, and most of those beliefs are subjective opinion. Hence why scientists cannot agree on them.
Anytime you have a field of study, that cannot produce direct evidence from an experimental test, it is subject to subjective opinion.
Take for example, Whale Evolution. When did we observe that? What testing gave results that were not influenced by subjective opinion?
I read up on the first so called transitional fossil.
Do you realize how much controversy there was surrounding the scientific beliefs?
Archaeopteryx
One scientist even refered to one belief, as Paleobabble. Imagine!
The many hypotheses are such, because they are ideas, which we cannot observe, and which scientist feel inclined to settle for the best explanation... In other words, the best opinion.
That includes the Phylogenetic tree, which is itself a hypothesis... aka an idea.
IMO, it makes not one iota of sense to assume the Creation accounts were for teaching actual history as it makes much more objective sense that they were written as myths used for teaching so as to refute the earlier and more widespread polytheistic Babylonian myths.
No one is assuming.... except perhaps the crowd that makes the assumption that people wrote down history; referred to it as history; corroborated it as history; but really meant it as myth.
That makes absolutely no sense at all.
Those writers were shown to be honest. verified to be, as well.
In fact, the founder of Christianity... the one you say is your lord, did nothing but exalt these ones as being preservers of God's word for later generation.
He never once referred to them as storytellers, and never once did Jesus refer to their record as myth.
It makes sense that if one is a Christian, even if they believed nothing else, they would believe Jesus.
