The writer asserts that the Bible stories are just legends and children's fairy tales and states that the creation story cannot be believed because it is a "just so" story. Yet he tries to further discredit it by saying it contains two different versions of creation. If it is a "just so" story, why does it have a discrepancy ?
I say they are the same account of creation but with more detail explaining that man was created in a different manner from the other animals.
Taylor also implies that we cannot believe the Bible because we now know so much more about the universe than those who lived in ancient times. While it is true that we possess much more information about the universe, we also hold to certain beliefs that the universe was not created, but it evolved. Humans were not created, they evolved from simpler organisms.
I think that to believe the big bang theory and Darwin's theory of evolution is tantamount to believing that an earthquake in a junkyard could produce a Boeing 747. I emphasize the word "theory" because many in our modern culture have chosen to convert it from theory to fact.
We have a problem believing the Bible, but no problem at all believing we evolved from the ape or even a single-celled amoeba.
We have the fossil record but refuse to acknowledge it is filled with mistakes and sometimes outright fraud. We have carbon 14 dating which we contend is flawless but we ignore that this system of dating objects containing carbon is based upon the object having been in the same environment as ours for its entire existence. This ignores any discrepancies that could have been caused by a cataclysmic event such as the great flood described in the Bible.
We want to believe science because it can prove its claims. But many in science have used it to prove their predilection has been proven by the evidence, regardless of how much evidence has to be manufactured.
I believe science and God do not have to be mutually exclusive. Science is learning new things about God's creation all the time.
Bill Sickles
Washington
It's not a dream
but a nightmare
I went to sleep a few months ago living the American dream with all the freedoms our forefathers gave us in our Constitution. Since January I'm hoping it is all a dream but afraid it is a nightmare that is never ending.
Pre-January if you worked hard you enjoyed all the freedom this country had to offer. You purchased an American made car where free enterprise gave you choices. In this nightmare we have our government and foreign countries will be dictating the types of cars we will have to choose from. If you ran a business and it was making a profit, you expanded and grew. If you failed, you closed, realized your mistake, started over and tried to do better the next time. Now we have the government giving trillions of dollars to failures and telling us to "pay as you go." Maybe it should practice what it preaches. If you were able to save money for a down payment on a home you could afford, you didn't default on your mortgage and wait for the government to bail you out. Pre-January if there was a war to fight we fought it and many people gave their lives so the rest of us could enjoy our freedoms. Now we can't even call someone who wants us destroyed a terrorist or the war we are fighting the war on terror. Prisoners who want to kill us are treated a hundred times better than any of our prisoners were ever treated. Talk to a POW and see what it was like in their prisons and how they were interrogated. Now let's read our enemies their Miranda rights, give them a lawyer paid for by you and me and then send them to a tropical island so they can walk the streets and plot against us once more. Or give them a trial with all the rights of an American citizen paid for by our tax money.
I'm afraid we are not in Kansas any more, Toto. Someone please wake me up from this nightmare and put me back into the American dream.
Janice Gibbs
McDonald