Re: Please Explain the Existence of Dinasour Fossi
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Originally Posted by OneAccord
I agree. I don't necessarily agree or disagree with the theory. I posted that to show that some use it to teach the "Pre-Adamic Creation" theory. To think that there might, or might not have been, a creation before Adam, is too much for me to wrap my mind around. LOL, I do good to remember last week, let alone eons ago!
Noah was told to replenish the earth after it was destroyed... and Adam and Eve were told to replenish the earth... I just don't think that we have the whole written story... thank goodness for science....
The heresy hunters are still with us. Only now, instead of stakes, they use their books and radio programs to destroy those they consider heretics.... I'm concerned that heresy hunting may be turning into leukemia because some cultwatchers seem more intent on destroying parts of the body than healing the body....
Re: Please Explain the Existence of Dinasour Fossi
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Originally Posted by Ferd
How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden? The Bible is the recorded history of Mankind, in relation to Jesus. it isnt the history of God, nor the complete history of the earth.
We run into problems trying to make the bible, the record of either God or the Earth.
Re: Please Explain the Existence of Dinasour Fossi
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Originally Posted by COOPER
There are many un-explained things about the earth and it's history.
I for one used to believe the young Earth teachings........but..
The Grand canyon walls in America have layers the date older than 6000 years.
Cooper, not that I believe the Young Earth theory, but land itself was created before day 4. everything that happened in Days 1 thru 4 happened in eternity. there is no way to determine who old something is if its existance predates the creation of time (which was created on day 4)
so how long did it take to create the Grand Canyon? or Mt. Everest?
it is impossible to fix a time, because those things were created before time was created.
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Re: Please Explain the Existence of Dinasour Fossi
Also... Genesis 1:1 says In the beginning God created the heavens & the earth.
We have no idea what span of time might have passed between "the beginning" when the planets were created and the day that God approached a formless & void earth and began to move upon the face of the deep.
The earth could have been here for millions upon millions of years. It was created "in the beginning". We have no idea how long it might have existed before the day God began the process of creating life on this planet.
Also... I do not feel that there is a credible aging process out there that can age accurately beyond 4000 years or so. So the stated age of the walls of the Grand Canyon does not hold a lot of weight with me.
Also, many times, the "age" of a portion of such a wall is not even from any aging process. It is from the circular reasoning process of simply deeming it as being from a certain period so it "must" be x number of years old.
Re: Please Explain the Existence of Dinasour Fossi
I disagree with the idea that each day in Genesis 1 could be thousands of years old. The bible distinctly says "the evening and the morning." To me, that disallows for more than an actual day.
I tend to agree with the pre-Adamic theory. Makes most sense to me. I disagree with the young Earth theory as well.
Regarding how Moses knew the creation story, it was obviously revelation. He was in the mountain for forty days and nights. Who knows what all he heard? But I do not believe when he saw the hinder parts of God that he was seeing past history. lol.
What else don't I believe? Hmmm...
My thoughts, anyway.
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Re: Please Explain the Existence of Dinasour Fossi
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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Also... Genesis 1:1 says In the beginning God created the heavens & the earth.
We have no idea what span of time might have passed between "the beginning" when the planets were created and the day that God approached a formless & void earth and began to move upon the face of the deep.
The earth could have been here for millions upon millions of years. It was created "in the beginning". We have no idea how long it might have existed before the day God began the process of creating life on this planet.
Also... I do not feel that there is a credible aging process out there that can age accurately beyond 4000 years or so. So the stated age of the walls of the Grand Canyon does not hold a lot of weight with me.
Also, many times, the "age" of a portion of such a wall is not even from any aging process. It is from the circular reasoning process of simply deeming it as being from a certain period so it "must" be x number of years old.
There are actually many radiometric dating methods. Carbon-14 is the big one that the ICR rallies against so often, but used properly it is accurate with "dead" things that are at least several hundred years old, up to about 35-40 thousand. This is because it is based on a half life that is just over 5000 years. The method used to date MUCH older material is based on the natural decay of Plutonium into its daughter particles. Using THIS method you could not date something under tens of millions of years but is good to several billion. This is the method used to date the Earth itself and is accurate to within only a couple of million years.
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