Personally, I have trouble with some that say 'believe in the 7 literal
days or your going to Hell' idea.
1. The Sun, Moon and Stars were not created until the 4th day, and those
are what we base our chronology on.
2. The 7th day is still going on, apparently. God did not complete the
picture as He did with the other 6 days.(evening and morning....)
3. The same word 'yom' is used in Genesis 2:4 as 'the day when the Lord
made...(KJV ) as that used in describing creation. It is also used to
describe A. a 12 hour day, Gen. 1: 4-5, (God called the light DAY and the
darkness He called NIGHT), B. a 24 hour day (and there was evening and
morning, one DAY).
Personally, I do not trust radiometric dating. One example that comes to
mind. A mound has appeared within the last few years at Mt. St. Helens
that erroneously has been dated over a million years old. There are alot
of very smart people on this reflector that disagree, however.
>>>2. The
> evolution/creation argument is another dilemma for me. I believe God did
> create us but "how?" is my question<<<<
That question is what causes all the fervid debate to begin with on this
reflector. I differentiate between macro-evolution, (the gradualism that
chance mutations would eventually produce fish, mammals, birds and
reptiles). That is not science, but an unprovable, specious philosophy
that masquerades as a science - and microevolution,(something that has
been proven by the science labs in repetition and seems to be nothing more
than variation within a gene pool).
Anyway, welcome aboard. There is interesting reading on almost (but not
quite) every post.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
and do not rely on your own insight.. Pr. 3:5
Ron Chitwood
chitw@flash.net
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> From: Teena Della <tdella@server-1.winslow.schdist43.bc.ca>
> To: evolution@calvin.edu
> Subject: Hello, I'm new.
> Date: Thursday, May 14, 1998 7:22 PM
>
> Hello!
>
> I've been reading your list for a couple weeks and would like to say
> hello and let you know a bit about where I'm coming from.
>
> I am a high school geology teacher and a Christian. At first those two
> seem to me to be opposites. It is an area I struggle with. I love
> teaching geology but at church I hesitate to express my views and
> uncertainities. At school, of course, I must not teach creation if I
> want to keep my job! For my own peace of mind though I'd like to settle
> two questions: 1. Is the seven days of creation seven literal days or
> billions of years. Can we trust radiometric dating? 2. The
> evolution/creation argument is another dilemma for me. I believe God did
> create us but "how?" is my question. I'm hoping that I can learn from
> you and that my questions won't be redundant! (If so, please just
> respond to my email address instead of to the whole list! Thanks!) Does
> anyone have any comments that might shed some light on these two
> questions?
>
> I must say though, that I also believe that both of these dilemmas are
> academic. The important fact, that is indisputable in my mind, is that
> Christ died for us so that we could be spared from the tortures of Hell
> and have the free gift of Heaven. I can just imagine God laughing and
> shaking his head at us for all our other little misinterpretations! (I
> hope so anyway!)
>
> I look forward to reading and participating in the discussions to come!
>
> Teena
> tdella@mail.winslow.schdist43.bc.ca