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Sorry JJboy, but all you did in The Big One post was assert the first cause argument. That argument has nothing to do with whether Genesis is a scientific account of how the universe came into being.
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You are right in saying that Genesis was not a scientific account of how the Universe came into being. In fact, it defies all scientific laws. Energy was created from nothing, and it's a well known fact that energy cannot be vreated or destroyed. But the scientific evidence supports a Genesis account. Yes, I admit, it is hard to find one peice of evidence that we can clearly say, 'Oh, well here is a proof that God made the Universe.' There is no way that we can do that. All we can see today is today. we can see fossils and so on, and hypothosize about it all we want, but we
cannot know. But there is no evidence that clearly contradicts the Genesis account. But I will look into it further, and maybe later I can back with a 'proof'
Evolution faces the same problem, that is, the lack of concrete evidence. There is, however evidence that we see today that contradict what Evolution says would be. Actually, maybe not what Evolution says, but what would be if Evolution was correct. Here are two examples of what I am talking about:
World Population.
The world’s population hovers near six billion. Currently a big ‘scare’ is the fear of over-population. A population of six billion is certainly a mind-boggling number, but we are nowhere near devastating the world’s resources. What, if any, difference would we see in the population of the Earth if Evolution’s theory were correct? Consider that the Human race, or Homo sapiens, has allegedly been in the evolutionary picture for approximately one million years. If the average generation lasted forty years, then there would have been 25,000 generations from the period man appeared to the present time. Today’s annual growth rate averages 2%. If we make the annual growth rate %, the current population would be an incredible 10 followed by 2100 0’s following it. This is a huge number, and, thankfully, we do not see this population today. Imagine the immense numbers of graves we would see around us! Obviously, life would perish on earth before we could reach such an enormous population. As seen by the current population, we can see that Man has not existed for as many years as evolutionary scientists would have us believe.
The size of the Sun.
The Sun is a life giver. Without it, life could not exist on the planet Earth. But in the evolutionary timeframe, the sun would have prohibited life on earth, and the formation of all the other planets.
The diameter of the sun is currently 865,000 miles. Scientists tell us that it is 4.6 billion years old. It has been observed that the sun shrinks at a rate of 5 feet an hour. In a day, the sun shrinks 120 ft. a day.
5 ft
x 24 hours
= 120 ft. a day
There are 365 days a year.
120 ft.
x 365 days
= 43805 ft. per year
In a mile there are 5280 ft.
5280/43805= 8.3 miles
8.3 miles per year. If we give the sun 600 million years to assume the current rate of shrinkage, then we have 4 billion years in which the sun has been shrinking. So:
8.3 miles per year
x 4,000,000,000 years
= 332,000,000,000 miles.
We must divide the number in half, as the Sun shrinks on both sides.
2/332,000,000,000
=166,000,000,000
The planet furthest from the sun, Pluto, is 3,660,000,000 miles away from the sun, on average. How can this be? Only 20 million years ago the sun would still have been as far out as earth’s orbit. To explain this, I have started a new theory. I call it the In-sun Theory. My theory explains the origin of life exactly the same as the Theory of Evolution, with one minor detail. The planets formed in the sun. The first organism appeared on earth three billion years ago in the sun. Or, maybe, a better explanation is that the sun, earth and other planets are not nearly as old as we have been told.
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