Originally posted by sonhouse
The debate about the age of Earth starts with creationists saying its 6000 years old, totally unsubstansiated in the bible which as you know does not give an age, instead, they have to add up all the john begat billy who begat mary who begat eddie and so forth totally depending on the validity of the statements in the bible. So that does not come from a god ...[text shortened]... ou know full well that is not science, that is a political agenda in action.
Prove me wrong.
I don't preach the age of the Bible is 6000 years old, I don't know how old it is. I see no
reason to think God couldn't do it all in 6000 years, but that does not mean He did. It is
very possible it could be billions of years old for all I know. No matter how old it is it did
have to begin or start and that beginning no matter its current age was done how?
There are a lot of things in the Bible I could also point to that I have an issue with and
much of those I could lay at translations, and other factors but by in large I trust God has
watched over His Word. I do tend to stick with translations that had several different
groups involved over a single source to avoid pet beliefs being written into text, but even
then I have look at everything possible when studying scripture.
Politics is in everything where human money, power, and prestige are involved don't kid
yourself thinking science is some how pure without political agenda. If you want to debate
how people get grant money, or how research can be funded I would submit you have to
follow the money.