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How old is the earth?                                                                                    

Posted at: Feb/26/2009 : Posted by: mel

Related Category: Common Sense,

How’s that for starting a controversial subject. What I am really asking is do you believe in “Creationism” or “Evolution”. To discuss that last sentence I believe you first have to ask yourself “how old is the earth?” The biblical fundamentalist will tell you around 6000 years. The scientist will tell you more than 4 billion. A good place to start is by visiting the Grand Canyon. If you hike to the bottom and start to take in the scale of your surroundings it is not hard to believe that it took millions of years of erosion (if not more) to created the current canyon. They you have to ask the question, how long did it take to build of all the layers and compress them into rock before the erosion started. See where I am going, maybe we are not at billions, but we are at a lot more than 6000.

Now that the earth is old, lets briefly discuss Creationism and Evolution. I personally believe that Creationism is a naïve view of how to use the bible. The stories and parables in the bible offer many opportunities for learning, but should not always be taken literally. Don’t get me wrong, Evolution is an imperfect theory as well. “Survival of the fittest” is short sighted in my view. Luck and opportunity may be just as much a factor as being fit. If a fit species is near a cataclysmic volcano eruption they may become extinct just due to location and bad luck.

For me it is about finding a way for science and God to coexist. I believe in science and all its fixed yet complicated rules as they are currently understood. I also believe and give God credit for creating this machine we call science with all its rules of chemistry, physics, etc., and then turning this machine on. This still makes God the creator of my universe, I just give him credit at a different level than some.

There was a mathematician a few years ago who postulated that to have enough energy to create the proposed “big-bang” you would have to cataclysmically reduce a 7-dimension universe to a 4-dimension universe. When asked what would cause this event, he replied “ask God”.

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