God created the universe in seven days. How do we know His days are the same length as our days? Our days are based on the Earth's rotation, but before the Earth, what did God base His days on? The older you get, the faster time seems to pass. Since God in infinite years old, His days...

One of my confirmation teachers told something like this to me.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Really? Awesome. I knew I wasn't the only one.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That doesn't mean anything evolved.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, but it does mean that creation was a slow process instead of an instant one and that evolution is just a word for that process. Ta-da!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You act like you know this actually happened. For all you know, gods days are actually 10seconds each which would make creation a very quick process. Ta da!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

*sigh*. Some people like finding a compromise which makes sense without having to give up on their beliefs.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

sometimes compromise contradicts your beliefs. You cannot be on the fence.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

*sigh*. Fine. Go to hell for wearing polyester then.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Use because the fact that I wear more than one type of fabric in my shirt obviously means that my beliefs have been contradicted. All you did was send me a smart ass response because I actually make a good point that you don't want to acknowledge. And your sighing that is in front of your messages let's others know that arguing with me is tiring and pointless. Way to prove your fallible point

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What point? Basically you're saying that any compromise is the same thing as giving up on your beliefs. If that is so, then every single sentence in the Bible needs to be taken ad litteram and unchanged. I do believe that the punishment for wearing mixed fabric was stoning to death, rather than going to hell, but the point is still valid. Christianity has come a long way since its beginning, split up into multiple sections and modified by each leader who wanted to make his point. By saying that any point of view is infallible and not subject to debate or explanation, you are just being absurd.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes. Evolution is like the process of a species slowly turning into another species. God did this slowly, to see all the intermediate stages. We see this as evolution.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Oh. My. Gosh. Never thought of that. So interesting to think about...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Is that sarcasm.. ?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is why God exists and is amazing! The world he created is beautiful and amazing.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Tell that to starving children.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In catholic school, I was taught that Genesis is not supposed to be taken literately, besides the fact that we all are ancestors of 2 people.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You mean descendants?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

oops, yeah

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Scientists recently found humans are simply too genetically diverse to have been from just two people.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah I don't believe that but either. But then we're working in the presumption that they were normal people. They could have contained volatile alleles which mutated randomly when in gametes to give all the differences we gave today.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*Not informed enough to argue otherwise, yet* (V) (;,,;) (V) BLUGHIDIHLGIDGLDGDD...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sorry I only just saw your comment. I thought Adam and Eve were the first, the God created a bunch of others elsewhere. Their sons found wives, who weren't their parents' daughters, so...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This would only make sense if God actually existed, and he probably doesn't.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's called the day age theory. It's biblically refutable for several reasons. For example, the hebrew word "yom" was used indicating one calender day. Don't compromise the Bible.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You say that like God wrote the bible and not humans...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

God did write the bible..he inspired the writers what to write. Inspired comes from in spirt, where the holy spirit (which is God) inspired them what to write. Sure, humans hand wrote it, but God reveled what to write.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't see your point. From God's point of view, it may really have been 1 calendar day. since He was the only one in existence, no one was there to tell Him that more time had passed. He may even have manipulated time around him to turn it into 1 day, but to anyone othe than Him, it was 2 billion years.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There's other words to describe indefinite lengths of time which may be translated as day, but this is not one of them. Besides, God is aware of times linear and objective characteristics (he knows what space-time is) even though he is not confined to times parameters. There's several other reasons why the day age theory is garbage, as well. The conjectures of evolution and the bible are mutually exclusive, you're lying to yourself if you believe otherwise.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're missing the huge thing here: time, in this context, is a unit of measurement. A day is how long it takes the earth to make it's full spin, since God was creating the earth and thus the earth did not exist yet, it's impossible to conclude with certainty God's days were the typical 24 hour day. Your logic doesn't follow a linear understanding of time and causation, ironic. How could God's day be Earth days when the Earth wasn't in existence and why would he chose to stick with Earth days when he is so old and is the creator of planets whose day cycle would be more convenient to his scale of time?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My friend (a preacher's daughter) explained this to me one day after I explained my former beliefs of the worlds beginning. I said that I didn't believe that the whole world was made in just 6 days in the order described in the bible. First of all, Sunday is the first day of the week, not the last, so it makes no sense that we rest on Sunday because God rested on the 7th day. Next, the existence of dinosaurs have been proven by all those bones scientists dug up. You can't just deny it. So my theory was that God made the dinosaurs, got all mad because the dinosaurs weren't able to worship him, so he sent down a comet that blew all the dinosaurs up, and replaced them with humans who have the ability to worship. I think her reasoning made more sense.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The jewish day of rest is saturday, because that's when God rested. the reason christians rest on sunday is because that is the day of jesus's Resurrection. As for the dino stuff, They were described in Job, indicating that man and dinosaurs lived together at one point. I don't think God would ever expect an animal to worship him anyway; everything was expected from us.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Huh. I haven't read that much of Job. I must find this.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's in the last few chapters and is called a leviathan. It's not extremely clear that it's a dinosaur, but a dino is the only thing the description would line up with.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Okay. Thanks.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I thought a leviathan was a hippo? I picture it as a sea serpent thing, but I read somewhere it was supposed to be a hippo.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The amount of time between the last dinosaur and the first human was about 65 million years.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not this again....

by Anonymous 13 years ago

God was created by man, to control people and their actions. People always try to relate God and science, and it doesn't work. This post is just an example of that, as the OP took the myth that time moves faster when older, and used it in an effort to combine science and religion. I expect this to be downvoted, but i don't care, it's just my stupid drunken opinion

by Anonymous 13 years ago

... Time does not move faster when older. Time SEEMS to move faster when you're older and when there's nothing to based passage of time on, time effectively does speed up.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Religion is based on faith and science is based on evidence. They cannot coincide.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well actually the man who came up with the big bang theory was a priest.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That wasn't science. That was philosophy. In ways, religion and science can go together. But they're too contradictory in the first place. In order to allow them to go together entirely, you'd have to limit one of them.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Religion is also science... old, obsolete science.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm not religious at all, I'd actually say I'm leaning towards atheism, but regardless of whether or not I believe in god, this post is valid in the sense that why would god be limited to "earth days". It makes sense that he could have his own time system; imagine being immortal/ever-present and counting everything by earth days.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

TThis is the perfect example of why the rest of the world thinks Americans are stupid. Science DISPROVES religion.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I live in Singapore, and I'm chinese.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think you're the stupid one.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

God is a Scientist!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Religion and science can go together, but christianity and science most definitely can't unless 90% of the bible is parable.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Certain parts of the Bible are meant to be taken metaphorically...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"Certain" parts? lol. You mean whatever parts you feel like.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Exactly, I mean honestly it's up to the reader to decide how they want to interpret the bible.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So then I could interpret the bible as being the corrupted word of a malicious entity called 'god' to bring about hate towards a benevolent entity called 'satan', the original creator. Now THAT would be a cool twist. :P (Also there's some truth in this, well common interpretation anyway if not the bible itself, the imagery used to describe the devil, red with horns and a tail, is only done in an attempt to brand paganism as evil.)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes you could interpret it that way. I think some satanists do. But then again, I don't think Satan ever promoted loving your neighbor,and I haven't really found anything pushing him in the direction of morality (which can easily be raken from a non-religious point of view.)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Don't you get it... if god was malicious he could have the bible say ANY LIE HE WANTED. Including making satan out to be bad.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah...so? At least people are moral following Christianity (assuming they aren't crazy people judging everyone like the Internet stereotypes them to be.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Some are, some aren't. Don't pretend that you can say anything definitive about ALL christians other than that they believe in god and jesus.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They are if they're doing it right.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Okay, so the word "generally" accidentally got skipped in my last comment. Even still, considering that's what the entire religion is based around other than believing in God and Jesus, you think at least a majority of Christians are at the very least trying to be moral.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

By that logic so are terrorists

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But the Muslim community has outright stated that terrorists are doing it wrong.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I will admit that the modern and strictly american view of "terrorists" does portray Muslims as dangerous although "trying to be moral" however, you can acknoledge that mcuh of the Islamic community does not agree with the interpretation of the religion as the terrorists do. Christianity has cults and such as well, that most denominations deny as true followers of Christ, but that does not mean that all Christians are immoral.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wait what? I never mentioned Islam, you two brought that up. I just mean the age old saying of "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." That summarises the nature of morality, how one person's view of it does not make that morality absolute.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Fighting for freedom =/= morality. If you were not implying Islam, then what point did the terrorists comment have? Terrorists are not a signifcanfly large group of the world population, and terrorists are meant to inspire terror, so I doubt we could call them moral in the general sense. I understand that morality is not set in stone, but you're missing the point that even if terrorists are "freedom fighters" and in some perspective moral, that does not apply to my statement about how at least the general population of Christians try their best to be moral, because terrorists are not an example of a widespread ideology on morality, like Christianity or other world religions.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because the concepts of 'lesser of two evils' and 'greater good for the greater number' depend entirely on your perspective of the really big picture, as in the meaning and purpose of life. Clearly the various people of the planet don't all share the same view as far as that is concerned. Ok quick example, I saw a documentary yesterday about a South American tribe that would cannibalise their dead. But they did it not as a way to be destructive, not to lessen the people they ate, but because they believed it was like inheritance, and served a spiritual purpose of transition. They all spoke highly of the idea and claimed to want to be eaten when they died, and would consider it an insult if it didn't happen. In this tribe's history they had been visited by christian missionaries but rather than attempting to reason with or even understand their rituals they would treat the tribesmen as evil. Because of this the tribe now believe that christians are evil. In this way, there exist two seperate views on the same moral issue, and there are ofcourse many more views around the world, not just place to place or group to group but every single person's views are different.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Even christianity is divided into MANY different denominations, and none of them hold a majority stake to the name 'christian'.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Greater good for the greater number can wok off of perspective. It specifically says greater number...that's just math. And yes, no religious group is perfect, and I agree that those missionaries were much too harsh with the disconnect between their ideas and the tribesmen's . Yes christianity has many factions, none of which have a major claim to the sole "Christian" group. (although some would argue the Catholics do). And yes how you view life could change a lot of what you consider a lesser evil. But I still don't see why it matters. So there was once a group of people under the name of Christians who were less than perfect. I honestly don't really know what we are discussing here anymore. This started with you giving a what if circumstance that was really inconsequential. Why don't we agree that many things in this life are subjective and enigmatic, and that we view them different ways?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Lol I'm pretty sure that was the point I was trying to make in the first place. :) I need to learn clarity heh.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Okay, well, the way you put it initially did not at all sound that way, but we'll just leave it at the fact that we have come towards the same sentiment.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think Christian is for Protestants (Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian etc etc). I'm not sure if Catholics are considered Christian or not...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There's a lot of debate whether or not they are, but I would assume so since they believe in Jesus. But to each their own.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Comments like this annoy me. No offense to either of you but Catholics were the original Christians. Protestants broke away from the church. If anything Protestants should just be called Protestants, oh and half of all Christians are Catholic

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Religion and science? Sure, it's possible to make that work. Science is learning about the world that God created, is it not? The real question is whether religion and the internet are compatible...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Science is about observing existing phenomena...religion is about having faith in otherworldly ideas and spiritual symbols.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The reason time seems to go faster when you're older is because you're doing a lot less important stuff. Think about it. When you're born you learn a new language, how to communicate, how to write, how to spell. Then when you're older you aren't doing as much and time seems to go by.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

IT's because out perception of time is linked to the percentage of our live it has taken. WHen you're little, it tookn you your whole life to learn English. When you're a hundred, it only took you, say, five percent of your life, so it seems shorter. On your first birthday, it took your entire life for the Earth to orbit the sun, but when you're a hundred, it only took 1% of your life.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I learned this is my religion class at my school. We did a huge study on Genesis that lasted for a week. The conclusion was that God's days weren't necessarily our days. It was more than likely hundreds (or more) years per each day.

by Anonymous 13 years ago