Creation vs. Evolution: Part 6- So How Old is the Earth?- Conclusion

Creation vs. Evolution: Part 5- "Bones of Contention"

(Taken from the AiG website...)

Z: Fossils and common descent. This is one of the most controversial topics, whether they prove or disprove evolution. “When objections are raised about ‘evolution,’ the object of concern is nearly always the concept of common descent. Common descent is the proposal that all organisms, living and extinct, are connected by an unbroken series of ancestor-descendent relationships to a single ancestral life form by a process of descent with modification. 

Creation vs. Evolution: Part 4- Survival of the Fittest and Sin

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Z: Survival of the Fittest. One of the basic terms in the evolutionary process. Basically meaning, “Whoever was the fittest survived.” (Not hard to understand, is it?) My question to you is, why, if God knew that different species would fail to survive and become extinct, why did he even create them in the beginning? If, like the dodo, animals would die and never be seen again, why did God even let those animals come into existence? “Extinction—the complete dying out of a species—is a normal occurrence in nature. Most species that have ever existed are now extinct.” (Encyclopedia of Animals, p. 22) Why did God allow those animals even to survive? Unless he, in evolution, just let some parts of it go wherever it took those animals, perhaps God changed it a little bit to make it better, but then left that family of animals to then die out? If we take the literal view of creation, why did God create those

animals that had no chance to survive?

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Creation vs. Evolution: Part 3- The Dinosaur Debate

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Z: In these next four paragraphs I will cover topics that have everything to do with how the world was created and the aftermath.

Dinosaurs:

     Some of the most interesting animals to ever walk the earth—for about perhaps 2,000 years, if you believe what the Bible says literally. God created all reptiles on the fifth “day” then he killed them off in the flood, many literal creationists say. But, in the encyclopedia, it says that they ruled the earth for about 140 million years.

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Creation Debate: Part Two- Evolution is Incompatible with Christianity

Here is part two of the Creation Debate series.  I hope you find it helpful!

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Z:  If we reinterpret the "six days" of creation into time periods, perhaps, millions of years going on during those, "days" then we see that the scientific point of view, that the earth is old, (once more, that idea doesn’t fit the evidence, and evolution isn’t real science) is completely logical from a Christian standpoint.

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Creation Debate: Part 1- Evolution Is Not Science

This is a slightly altered version of an online debate I had a few years back on Google Buzz.  The person I was debating with with was the son of an evolutionary professor of science and religion at a "Christian" college.  What he wrote is in italics, and my answer is in regular font, except where I used italics or bold for emphasis.  I have left this almost unaltered from when it was originally posted on Google Buzz.  The few places which have been altered are underlined.

Creation Debate:  Evolution Is Not Science

Z:  I think I'll reply to that...

First of all... I'm not saying that I don't believe the Bible. I think it is the truth and the holy Bible. However, I think that some parts of it aren't meant to be taken literally. As in the creation account. You are correct in that if I don't believe that there was a real Adam, or a real Eve, then I can't really believe that there was a real Cain*. However, I'm not saying I don't believe the creation account in the Bible. I'm just saying that it wasn't meant to be taken literally, like other parts of the Bible. I see that if we combine science and the creation account in the Bible, we come up with something that doesn't go against the Bible.