Originally posted by octotom
As far as creationism goes, you must always take this one simple thing into account...faith.
As a measuring stick, I would put "faith" in the same class as "flying spaghetti monsters".
As a believer in the creation account, I trust that God created everything in six days. God, by definition, can do whatever he
wants...including create things with the appearance of being millions of years old. Apparent age is what that's called. (ie Adam was created as an
adult male not a child)
And this makes logical sense how? Why would God want to make it appear that he
didn't create anything? "A test of faith" is a limp answer
to that too. I postulate that God said he created everything, and man believed him, because man was not "as gods" at the time and had no way of
proving God did not create everything. God, the bringer of - and lets be honest here - destructive fiery doom doesn't create jack # after genesis.
Why not, I wonder?
Someone mentioned the 'evolution' of a poodle. That technically isn't evolution because the ancestor of the poodle didn't evolve into
another species (the poodle is still a dog).
It is still evolution. Just because you are still a primate does not make you a monkey.
I remember learning in my creationism class in Bible School this past year that what most likely happened when the animals were created is that
very few animals were created...not the plethora that we know...probably two of each kind (two common dog ancestors, two common cow ancestors, etc.).
These two had every genetic possibility in them. Down through time and mating that is how the different types of dog and cow and lizard and monkey
came about. Hopefully that makes sense. I just thought that I'd throw that in there.
Despite how much the last couple of sentences sound like evolution:
The very words "creationism class" send a chill down my spine. Frankly, it's unlikely that (even after all this time) species would have the
genetic variation they have now if they were descended, literally, from two individuals.
Take the cheetah for example. Any Cheetah is as genetically similar to another as brother to sister because of a significant population decline at
some point in their history. This means there were bugger-all cheetahs to reproduce, so they all ended up getting it on with relations, leading to
very little genetic diversity. I can't tell you how many cheetahs this was, but it would have been far more than two.
I think that it's interesting, too, that in the Bible, there is a verse, I can't quite recall it right now, where God says that no animal
will be able to reproduce out of its kind...and we see today that no felines can mate with canines or horses or such.
Tom
I'm sorry, Tom, but just because I can't get my cat and dog to breed to produce a Cog or a Dat, doesn't mean it must be that way because God says
it was. They can't breed because (I haven't checked this but I'm going to hazard a guess based on what I know) they don't have the same number of
chromosomes, ergo the male dog provides, say, 20, and the female cat provides 21. These cannot pair correctly and no resulting animal is produced.
The foetus dies.
Also, pointing out easily observed facts can be done by anyone, not just God, and just because you've made an observation doesn't mean you made it
so in the first place.
Carl
