Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 18:48:28 -0800
From: "Senex R. Rupicapra" <olgoat-AT-kdsi.net>
Subject: Re: Darwin and God


Holden, John wrote:
> I know the Jews don't believe in the devil or Hell, but
> I think Genesis is thought litteral.
> I know a very popular christian excuse is that 7 days to
> god is 4.6 billion years. It's a stupid and absured excuse,
> but most christians aren't scholars - hell most haven't even
> read the bible.
> I mean if God is eternal, why any measure of time? and a day
> is a full revolution of the earth, that's what the writers of
> Genesis thought and that is what was ment.
> Most christians also don't know that for about a thousand
> years the church, a cardinal to be exact, figured mathematically
> the age of the earth from the bible. It was 2,000 some odd
> years a day that I don't remember at 9a.m. in the morning.
> The father of Geology, William Goodman or something, contested
> the catastrophists at that time, and felt the geological process
> to take millions of years at least. We now come to the 4.6
> billion mark.
> To get a sense of the time of evolution, picture a time of
> earth as a football field, -an american analogy - the first
> 80 yard are no life to microscopic life. Human evolution would
> be the width of a blade of grass> before the endzone.
> Holden

	touchdown!
	hey, Rick, y been taking yr Ritalin?

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