I am very religious and believe the same thing. Additionally, Pope John Paul II stated that this belief is not incompatible with Roman Catholic Dogma.
>Myself, I'm at least somewhat religious, and I like to think that the 7 days >God took to create the world was actually billions of years. We all know God has a sense of humor, he made daughters. But I don't think he applied it to the fossil history of the world. I have spent too much time crawling around the Creataceaus badlands (Selma chalks) and digging in the Eocene hurricane deposits (Gosport Sand) in Alabama to believe in young Earth. Humping geophysical equipment across the chaos in Death Valley (Amargosa Chaos) made me wish for a flat Earth, however. > >Whose to say that one of God's days was 24 hours long? He doesn't live on a >planet that rotates every 24 hours. Exactly, and in Genesis he didn't create the Sun until day 3, iirc? So how were days measured before that? And what most Bible Literalists ignore is that there are 2 creation stories in Genesis. So did God create the world and decide he didn't like it even if ity was good and start all over? > >-- >I'm not certified, but I have been told that I'm certifiable... >Visit http://www.opensourcecf.com today! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:227918 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
