It matters to a lot of people: about half of Aussies surveyed said the matter of science and evolution prevents them from taking the claims of Christianity seriously.
First let me caution anyone in that situation, don’t make creation timing the issue that determines your eternal destiny. The eternity-breaker is whether or not you trust the living God. There are other good & sufficient reasons to believe in and trust the Creator. Such as: . the manuscripts and archaeology of the Bible, which indicate it was reliably transmitted. . the prophecies and storyline within it which indicate a divine source. . the historicity of the life, death & resurrection of Jesus, the latter giving further evidence of the divine. Thus a supernatural Creator is still evident even without addressing the timing issue. Maybe that's why I used to be ambivalent about creation timing - because I had those other anchor-points for trusting God through Jesus. Maybe that's why other Christians leave the timing question unanswered too, or even settle on long-age interpretations, because they have these other good foundations for their faith instead. However... for Aussies without any of those anchor-points, it’s understandable that "science and evolution" is a problem for their belief, because what we read in Genesis 1 is so shockingly different from what most of us are taught in school about billions of years and evolution. So it is fair to ask, “which timing is right?” Let’s start here: "it is reasonable to expect the Creator's Account to interpret ALL observations consistently.” I'll defend that, but for now I'm saying we do not have to discard the Bible in favour of simplistic assertions about what "the science says.” If truth is true, truths from both sources should match. Truth should be able to research-and-uphold ALL the legitimate observations, of both sciences and the Bible. But equally logically truth should not be able to uphold all interpretations, because some interpretations will contradict others. So when I finally did examine enough of the observations (both Biblical and scientific), I found that when it comes to origins, most of us were not given some critical information. Like:
So where can normal people like us find specific observations with interpretations that are Biblically consistent? I recommend creation.com. On closer inspection as an adult, contrary to what I was taught at school and most media outlets, I have found that Bible-based interpretations of origins involving special creation are more consistent with all the relevant observations than any naturalistic interpretation. After all, it's reasonable that The Creator’s Account would interpret ALL observations consistently. Comments are closed.
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