Article Review: The Origin of Old-Earth Geology and its Ramifications for Life in the 21st Century Introduction Dr. Terry Mortenson published “The Origin of Old-Earth Geology and its Ramifications for Life in the 21st Century” on August 5, 2003. In this article he described how scientist formed opinions of the age of the earth and how it was formed prior to the 19th century. Furthermore he discussed how geology was debated between believers and non-believers. Overview Popular scientist of the times developed a theory of the earth’s age and formation without acknowledging God existed and therefore was not a part of creation. Scientist developed many of their own personal opinions about creation.
They only believe what they see. Their belief is not sustained by literature theory as from the Bible. “The scriptural geologists were not opposed to geological facts, but to the old-earth interpretations of those facts. And they argued that old-earth interpretations were based on anti-biblical philosophical assumptions, and in this they were correct. Buffon was a deist or secret atheist,12 as were Lamarck13 and Hutton.14 Laplace was an open atheist.15Werner,16 Cuvier,17 Smith18 and Lyell19 were probably deists or some sort of vague theists.
“Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment”. There are many ways I can prove that science is not more credible than the bible but today I will only provide three shocking reasons. Firstly, the discoveries of archeologist proving stories in the bible to be true,secondly; the many miracles of healing that have doctors speechless and thirdly, the flaws in the big bang theory. The story of Noah's Ark and the Great Flood is one of the most famous stories from the Bible, and one of the best known underwater archaeologist, Robert Ballard sat in an interview with Christiane Amanpour from ABC News talking about his findings. Ballard's track record for finding the impossible is well known, especially finding an ark looking exactly like noahs.
Genesis 1-2 Genesis 1 and 2 present the account of the creation of the universe. God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. This account is constantly debated. The scientific community has a more probable and evidence based explanation of the universe’s creation. When Biblical scholars debate this they lose the true meaning of the text.
In the old days (the early 1900’s) the word “nuclear” made people think of war. Back than people were very worried about nuclear bombs and the great damage that could become of them. Now a days people are much less worried about “nuclear” weapons and are more concerned about nuclear energy because they feel that nuclear energy could help things such as global warming. Sense the early 1900’s there have been many different theories blogged about by scientists that show that the idea could be a substitute for our current energy source. Even though many people believe that history sometimes repeats itself we as a whole go along doing the same things that we did before thinking that there could be different results, but sense we all know that every energy source out today has its setbacks and positive results: scientists have created and somehow stabilized the much needed power sources of nuclear energy.
With all of the differences in the dogmas between Christianity and Mormonism, there is strong evidence that these two faiths cannot be linked together solely on the fact that they both believe in Jesus Christ being the savior of mankind. Many Christians believe that Mormonism is not a true Christian religion, although Mormons make the claim that they are based on their faith in the Christ Jesus as the sole savior of the world. Can Mormonism, a polytheistic religion, truly be considered Christian, when Christianity
The genesis story alone supplies more than enough theoretical fuel to keep an atheist's argument burning. There are people who whole-heartedly believe that the earth was created in 7 days and that science is a lie created by “God” in order to test our faiths, that carbon dating providing evidence of the earth having existed for millions of years is simply trickery devised by “God” to separate those who should be allowed access to heaven and those who are damned to hell for an eternity of suffering. There are people who are strongly against the theory of evolution and they claim “But Evolution is only a theory.” which is true, it's only a theory. If the fact that it is merely a scientific theory automatically discredits it for them then perhaps it also applies to the scientific theory of gravity and they might just float away. A survey was conducted in America,
It also gives us a very monotheistic view of God to oppose the idea of many gods or that there is no God. Clearly it is one God created here in Genesis. It also provides us with the beginning of redemptive history for mankind; he fall of man and his need for salvation (NIV 2-3). Summary: Genesis in its Greek meaning means “origins” and the Hebrew word is translated “In the Beginning (Marty 8). Genesis chapter one takes us through the beginning of the universe.
This evidence is consistent with Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Paul eluded to this when he said that God’s invisible qualities, eternal power, and divine nature is clearly seen, being understood by what has been made, so that men are without excuse (Rom.1:20). Therefore, we are to worship the Creator and not the creation (1:25). But fallen man do not give God the honor and glory for all the beauty and order He designed in His wonderful universe He created.
The use of faith as a foundation of getting and recieving knowledge is a contreversial topic that has been debated. Faith in the bible is basically what the belief of God is about, having hope for a supernatural being that nobody can implant within you. Human beings always want to inquire more, but for some people inquiring more knowledge means to actually feel it and sense it in order to believe it. To some extent this is the opposite of faith, because faith however is a belief on something or someone without needing to get that “evidence”. There are more than seven billion people on our planet and each individual has a different belief, but why is it that faith as an individual is such a controversial topic?