09-12-2006, 05:22 AM
Hi guys! I was talking to my boyfriend (DrPoodle - remember him?) on the phone the other night and he happened to say about you lot and that you all seemed to think science was evil and against God and everything. Now, I admit, he may have been exaggerating but even so, I found this shocking! I am christian myself, not to the degree that you lot are, I mean, I don't force my views on other people cos I happen to think they have just as much right to not believe in God as we do TO believe in Him. So, anyway, I don't want to cause any offence and if he was terribly exaggerating and you don't actually think that about science at all, I'm sorry, but here are my points:
1. Christians who don't believe in Evolution really really confuse me, cos to me, Genesis describes the process of evolution perfectly. "God said let there be light, and there was light" - creation of the sun, accepted by Physicists everywhere as the first stage of the creation of the solar system. "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered up in one place" - water first appears on the Earth and starts to form oceans, again, a stage in the Earth's natural history accepted by scientists eveywhere. "Let the Earth bring forth grass.." - plants appear on the land, a stage that occurs simultaneously to the evolution of aqautic life on the planet - a little out, but not bad for a bunch of Isrealites living before christ was born, don't you agree? "Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven" - the stars are born. Really this stage should come just after or even before the creation of the Sun, but scientifically, stars are being born all the time so it does make some sense. "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that hath life" - the first stage of evolution of the kingdom animalae which could have occured concurrently with the evolution of plantae, meaning that this is indeed correct - living creatures evolved first in the sea and then moved onto the land where the plants had created an oxygen rich atmosphere for them to breathe. The final stages are where God creates the animals we know today and then man. There is scientific evidence that this is the order in which we evolved.
2. If science is a bad thing, how come it saves lives? If any of you really think that science is going against God, try going without your clothes, food, houses, computers, mobile phones, dental treatment, painkillers, trips to the doctor, TV, cos these were all created with science. Science is like any of the great gifts we have - we can use it for good or bad. If some people use it to kill others then that is because those people are bad, not because science is bad.
1. Christians who don't believe in Evolution really really confuse me, cos to me, Genesis describes the process of evolution perfectly. "God said let there be light, and there was light" - creation of the sun, accepted by Physicists everywhere as the first stage of the creation of the solar system. "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered up in one place" - water first appears on the Earth and starts to form oceans, again, a stage in the Earth's natural history accepted by scientists eveywhere. "Let the Earth bring forth grass.." - plants appear on the land, a stage that occurs simultaneously to the evolution of aqautic life on the planet - a little out, but not bad for a bunch of Isrealites living before christ was born, don't you agree? "Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven" - the stars are born. Really this stage should come just after or even before the creation of the Sun, but scientifically, stars are being born all the time so it does make some sense. "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that hath life" - the first stage of evolution of the kingdom animalae which could have occured concurrently with the evolution of plantae, meaning that this is indeed correct - living creatures evolved first in the sea and then moved onto the land where the plants had created an oxygen rich atmosphere for them to breathe. The final stages are where God creates the animals we know today and then man. There is scientific evidence that this is the order in which we evolved.
2. If science is a bad thing, how come it saves lives? If any of you really think that science is going against God, try going without your clothes, food, houses, computers, mobile phones, dental treatment, painkillers, trips to the doctor, TV, cos these were all created with science. Science is like any of the great gifts we have - we can use it for good or bad. If some people use it to kill others then that is because those people are bad, not because science is bad.