Summary: Can Christian Accounts Of Creation And Life Be Harmonized With Science

The age of the earth has been debated for centuries. Many people believe in evolution that it took billions of years for everything and everyone to form. Others believe that God created the earth in seven days and that the earth is young. Secular scientist and Christian scientist both use different methods for determining how old the earth is. For example, Secular scientist look and use the layers of rocks to help them, while Christian scientist uses the Bible and look at historical data from other cultures to help them. Doesn't looking at archeological data seem more accurate than looking at rocks? If the earth is truly billions of years old, then why is there little sediment on the sea floor? Or how can secular scientist explain finding soft tissue in a fossil if the earth is old? The most logical explanation is that the earth is young. Many people believe something just because people say that it is true, sometimes it is good to investigate for yourself and see if it is good for you.

Scientific Naturalism and Christianity are possibly the two most contradictory worldviews that are in our culture today. They are also the two most difficult to understand by one another. There is very little about these two worldviews that they have in common. They are a vast amount of ideas and beliefs held by adherents of each that are different. In order for these two worldviews to successfully co-exist in society, it is important to understand, accept, and learn from each one.

There have been attempts to dethrone God from His rightful position as a creator and at the helm of this is evolution theory. The bible clearly states that the world is 6,000 years today but when you read scientific articles it will tell you the world has been in existence for billions of years.

“In the beginning was the big bang,”[i] writes John Polkinghorne, a physicist turned theologian. As the reader follows through the remainder of his cosmic creation story, the reader is intrigued at how mystical and religious the story sounds. “The space boiled, in the rapid expansion of the inflation era, blowing the universe apart with incredible rapidity in the much less than 10-30 seconds that it lasted. . . . The world suddenly became transparent and a universal sea of radiation was left to continue cooling on its own . . .”[ii] Then, the story unfolds to tell of the creation of hydrogen and helium and the creation of stars. The death of stars follow, which

Being a scholar of the Bible, Ussher earned acceptance among Europe’s scientific and religious leaders and got to have the date of the creation of the Earth printed in Bibles. In the late1700’s modern geology came into light and debunked James Ussher’s idea on how old the Earth really was. James Hutton proved how Ussher’s dates are wrong by using the principle of uniformitarianism. Uniformitarianism states that, “The physical, chemical, and biological laws that operate today have also operated in the geologic past.” which means that it takes a long time for the sculpture of mountains to happen and it does not take less than 4000 years to develop. Hutton provides examples and proof of how it actually happens and backs up his claim to the point where he debunks James Ussher’s idea of the world being created in 4004 B.C. Geology today we tend to go more into Hutton’s idea how physical, chemical, and biological laws do change the sculpture of the Earth. Geologists today use Hutton's principle as a pillar of geology to find out how old parts of the Earth are and even find out how long Earth has been

Christian Science is an idealistic and most radical form of transcendental religiosity. The study of Christian Science teaches a feeling of understanding of God's goodness and the differences between good and evil, life and death. The purpose of this paper is to address how the study of Christian Science helps us better understand the impact of globalization in America, as well as the impact of American on globalization. This paper is important because globalization features a dominant worldview. All throughout the world people believe, study and teach different types of religious movements that impact others. People need to better understand how certain religions modify, conflict with, and impact the world. First, it will discuss

The issues about evolution have been argued for several hundred years. For example, even until now, some religion of the Christian Denomination still refuse to admit the evolution is a fact. However, evolution explains a lot of phenomenon appearing in nature environment. Thus more and more people believe it and think these phenomenon are the evidence! Let us sort out them below:

Arguments over the age of the Earth have sometimes been divisive for people who regard the Bible as God's word. Even though the Earth's age is never mentioned in the Bible, it is an issue because those who take a strictly literal view of the early chapters of Genesis can calculate an approximate date for the creation by adding up the life-spans of the people mentioned in the genealogies. Assuming a strictly literal interpretation of the week of creation, even if some of the generations were left out of the genealogies, the Earth would be less than ten thousand years old. Radiometric dating techniques indicate that the Earth is thousands of times older than that--approximately four and a half billion years old. Many Christians accept this and

In Creation Science is not Science, Michael Ruse argues that Creation science is not science and in Science at the Bar- Causes for Concern, Larry Laudan opposes this view by arguing that Creation Science is science, but that it is false. In this paper, I argue that Michael Ruse had the better argument and that Creation Science is not science. First, I explain Ruse’s argument for why creation science does not meet the criteria for science. Second, I consider and explain Larry Laudan’s opposing view that creation science is false science. I then argue why I believe Ruse has the better argument.

Commonly, religious discussion turns to the subject of origins. There are two reasons for this: firstly, there are those with a literal or semi-literal interpretation of the Bible (or other relevant holy book) who remain convinced that the world was created in the recent past looking more or less as it does today. Obviously, this issue must be resolved before the existence or nature of the deity can even begin to be discussed! Secondly, even those with the more common, nonliteral interpretation of the creation story often use arguments that aren't valid to insist on direct interference by a deity at one or more points in the past. And while thanks to its flexibility this "tinkering" God theory cannot be ruled out to the same degree as

In the late 1600s, the general population held their views in accordance to that of the churches. Due to bible interpretations, it was believed that Earth’s surface was static and its age was no more than a few thousand years old. None dared to speak out against the bible and its readings, for they knew that rebutting or denying any claims pronounced in the bible would lead to their condemnation by the church, thus leading many to believe such knowledge as factual. Influential as the church was James Hutton, a Scottish scientist, peeled away from the religious hierarchy to produce an idea known as uniformitarianism. Discontent with such interpretations of the planets age, he spent much of his life studying the terrain of Scotland and the impact

Prior to entering Introduction to Archaeology, I had almost no knowledge about hominin evolution. I happen to be one of the people who had a misconception about how an ape evolves in a single line to a human. For me personally I did not see the relevance of hominin evolution, I believed that evolution did happen, for instance, Darwin 's findings on the Galapagos Islands. Nonetheless, I did not believe hominid evolution, nor did I seek to understand it. I believed that God made humans, and I didn 't think that God needed to use a model from an ape to make the human species. Most people 's issue seems to be the time frame in which science says things have happened, compared with what the Bible says about time frames. That is the least bit of concern for me personally, because Biblically speaking, there is no concept of time for God. 1000 days to us is a day to him and a day to us is 1000 days to him. This makes sense in my mind on why everything is dated back so far, along with the biblical timeline of the earth being made in seven days.

Everyone on this Earth has a different opinion. Whether they are black, white, hispanic, conservative, democratic, religious or nonreligious… everyone has a different opinion and we do not agree with one another. Religion is a pretty big topic today and people for centuries have been wondering who it was or what it was that created the world we live in. Creationists refer a verse in the the Bible, Genesis 1:1 which says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Creationists also believe how in chapter 1 of the book of Genesis explains that God created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. But what there was not a God who created the world? Perhaps there is some alternative as to how we got to be here. Maybe it

Christians carries the believe that creation starts from the book of Genesis in the bible is accurately whereas religious conservations have conducted controversial theories challenging the approximate year that creation happened from “ 3615 BCE to the interval measured by scientists 4.5 billion years”. There are additionally varies in the supposition of the time frame or space taken for the creation, succession to be done, this range from “24 hour day to a billion years”. In the verses in the bible were the beginning/creation clashes with the clarification of improvement after some time religion moderate except the researcher must not be right. Giving efficiently great time there anticipant that the researcher will sell the light and find reality.

Sciene and Christianity Generally, science and Christianity are considered two contradictory views of the universe. Science symbolizes an evolutionary and naturalistic view of the universe from which God is (or at least can be) excluded. Christianity symbolizes a world view where everything is created by the direct creative act of God.