basskisser wrote:
Tim wrote:
ACP wrote:
Personally, I'm in the "birth" camp.

Me too!

Prove the existence of Jesus Christ to me, then I'll believe it. I
suppose you think the world is only around 6000 years old, huh? Or do
you not belive in the bible?

Boating related slant on your discussion:


Do you realize that the Bible is not a single book? It is a library of
books.

If you went down to the public library to learn about, say, boat
handling you might find one book that describes how to launch a cartop
kayak and select the proper paddle. You might find another that says
you will need a crew of 60 to properly set the sails, and still another
that describes sailing single handed. You might find another that
describes coordinating the port and starboard engines when manuevering
a power boat, and yet another that describes how to manuever with a
single screw. Are all of these books "incorrect" because they
contradict one another? Is all of the information in the library
invalid because different people at different times and from different
perspectives wrote about a variety of aspects of boat handling? Of
course not. An informed person would realize that trying to apply the
literal instructions for sailing a 19th century frigate, paddling a
kayak, operating a sailing dinghy,
or bringing a twin screw Bayliner to the dock to a different situation
or even simultaneously
on any single vessel would result in disaster. Yet each book in the
library could easily expand a reader's total awareness of boat
handling, and all are true and useful within their
specific frame of reference.

Simply because some books in the library come to different conclusions
than other books in the library or address the same topic from
different perspectives, that would hardly be a valid reason to dismiss
any of the books or the entire contents of the library as bogus.

Your reference to Genesis, for example. I absolutely believe that the
Genesis cosmology accurately reports how an ancient people expressed
their interpretation and understanding of a creative force in or for
the universe. There is a lot to be learned from that, but (IMO) the
lesson has been wasted on those who glean nothing more than some belief
that the earth is only 6000 years old or that life as we know it in
this current era emerged during a period of seven rotations of the
earth.