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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Bible Question: Should the time table of the creation of the world as written in Genesis be taken literally? Science has proven that evolution is a fact. (This is not to say that science has proven that man evolved from any other animal.) This raises the question of how old the earth is. I'm sure everyone has seen the remains of animals that have been dead for countless years and have seen how they compare to animals now so I won't go into that. Is it possible that the accounts in Genisis are not set on the same time table that we think of? I understand that 1 year to God is not the same as 1 year to man and I understand that God is not regulated by time as we are. With that being the case is it possible that the earth is much older than we believe it is? |
Bible Answer: You stated: "Science has proven that evolution is a fact" ??? The last I had heard, evolution was still only a theory. Has that changed? There are many inconsistencies and assumptions which plague current scientific theory. If these things are "fact" as we are often led to believe, then why are the "facts" continually changing? Evolution promotes transmutation, that we mutate from one species to a higher more intelligent one. God created man as man, in God’s own image. The Bible teaches lateral growth. That species created by God multiply and create species of their own kind, they don’t mutate into something else. God instructed the species that he created to be fruitful and multiply in kind. That is the only way we have become what we are today. We were human in the beginning and we are human now. Sheep were sheep in the beginning, they are sheep now. Wolves were wolves in the beginning, they are wolves now. The Bible remains consistent while the scientific theories continue to change. God created the world and everything in it. That is for sure. In most cases, science itself can prove that. Darwinism and Darwin’s theory will not endure like the Bible has. It is being broken down day after day and proven wrong on too many accounts. It will eventually be dismissed as the other creation theories have been. With Science the facts continue to change. The facts of the Bible have remained the same for thousands of years. WOS |