Actually, according to a display from the MIT slides (I think that was posted here...if not, I can post the link), they are saying 6,000 years ago...
My take on all this is as follows. God is supposed to be all seeing and all knowing, yada yada yada... So wouldn't it stand to reason that God created the lightning strike in that protoplasmic pool that caused the proteins to combine to form the first dna fragments that joined to form the first single celled organisms that eventually evolved into us and all the other life ion this planet knowing exactly what was going to happen. He wanted to enjoy the ride and watch things evolve...there were a few times he didn't like the direction they were going so he throws in a curve ball from time to time to destroy life or almost destroy it so it can start again. That makes more sense than creating something out of nothing. His "let there be light" was really the big bang that started it all. -----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 1:23 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Talking about the religious right... On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Sisk, Kris <ks...@gckschools.com> wrote: > > Bah. I share that faith and you'd never catch me saying something so > ridiculous. Believing that God created the world does NOT require the > installation of an off switch in your brain. > Judging from your posts on this list....no, you don't share their faith. Their faith goes way beyond what you believe. Fundamentalists and literalists don't just believe that "God created life". They believe in the biblical creation story as written....that it occurred 10,000 years ago....that dinosaurs existed with humans in a garden of eden...etc. etc. You don't share their faith. You share a small part of it....a part that does not require you to a lead a life of willful ignorance. I share that same part of faith, incidentally. I believe that God created life. Although, as I'm making my way through Hawking's "The Grand Design", i may be changing that soon :) -- Glittering prizes and endless compromises Shatter the illusion of integrity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328197 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
