Are We Christians Stomping Our Own Feet?
Don’t get me wrong. I am a Christian and accept Jesus as my savior. However, I don’t understand why we have to belate the point that young earth creation is true. I don’t understand how any of us can believe the world is only 6000 years old. In my humble opinion, it’s rude and uneducated to argue this, when scientists have massive amounts of evidence that this isn’t the case. I don’t blame atheists for getting so pissed with us for wanting to put this in our biology books in school. It is science/biology class after all, not religious class. As for the people who argue that carbon dating isn’t accurate–I can relate to a certain level, but you can’t tell me that carbon dating is off by 4.5 BILLION years. It’s just silly.
The biggest problem is that many Christians who reject science as you describe are subject to a great deal of misinformation. Almost all of them have no idea of what evolution is, nor do they know anything about the age of the earth. Rumors and lies abound.As a former young-earth creationist myself, I can assure you that most of my friends, classmates, and church members were under the impression that evolution was only a random thought dreamt up by Darwin, and never tested nor improved upon by any other scientist. My Christian youth group leader also assured us that all scientists were atheists (and they said ‘atheist’ as though it meant ‘evil murdering pedophile’), and that the only method used to determine the age of the earth was the horribly innacurate ‘carbon dating’ (false; there are now many improved methods).Furthermore, the evangelical/fundamentalist church I attended used fear to keep us from questioning anything. Basically, we were told that it was a disgusting sin to even THINK that the Earth isn’t 6000 years old. The God that I learned about was not the loving God that most Christians follow; most church services drove in the notion that God was angry and vengeful.Sadly, I think the same goes for many other Christians in America. Luckily, the number of Christians who accept evolution is growing all the time.(On a sadder note, there is still a Christian Flat-Earth society in America…)
Wow, I’m impressed, a Christian with common sense finally lol.
Congratulations, you have common sense.
I appreciate the fact that you’re honest in your attempts to reconcile genuine faith with reality. At least you’re not waging war on fact. I have no problem when someone believes something, it’s when that theology imbues them with warped values and a desire to attack knowledge/valuable institutions that is alarming…
This question should have been asked like this:
“Are we fundies stomping on our own feet?”
Fundies because not every Christian believes that the world is 6000 years old.
Perhaps you are a troll, however I will pretend that you are not.
Science has always, and will always dismantle superstitious thought.
Short answer: yes. Yes you are.
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