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OnyxCougar · 11-28-2004, 05:45 PM

The idea that God used evolution as an engine of creation (progressive creationsim) doesn't work, for the following reasons:

Evolution teaches that the sun came before the earth.
The bible teaches the earth came before the sun.

Evolution teaches that death, disease, and natural selection preceded mankind.
The bible teaches that the reason there is sin and death is because of Adam's rebellion against God. Also, if there was death and disease, God wouldn't think "it was good."

Progressive Creationism teaches that when the bible says "day" it could mean "millions of years".
In the bible, the Hebrew word for day, yôm, as it is used, can only mean a single, 24 hour period. In addition, when God says to keep the Sabbath Day, does he mean the Sabbath "millions of years"? It's the same contextual word in the Hebrew.

Before we had people telling us what the book meant (and we just read the book for ourselves), a day meant a day. Then Darwin showed up and suddenly, "day" meant millions of years. That is compromising your position.

And for those who say, "Yeah, but what about Second Peter, where it says a day is as a thousand years?" Please see this reply.

Evolution teaches that information is ADDED to the genes as generations progressed.
The bible says it was created whole, through God's word. In addition, the mutation, or speciations we OBSERVE have a LOSS of information, the opposite of what the Evolutionists say is required to go from amoebas to man.

So "Progressive Creationism" doesn't, IMO, make sense. I can see being an evolutionist, I can see being a creationist, but it's a one side or the other deal.

11-28-2004, 05:45 PM	#118
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	Reasons Why God didn't use evolution. The idea that God used evolution as an engine of creation (progressive creationsim) doesn't work, for the following reasons: Evolution teaches that the sun came before the earth. The bible teaches the earth came before the sun. Evolution teaches that death, disease, and natural selection preceded mankind. The bible teaches that the reason there is sin and death is because of Adam's rebellion against God. Also, if there was death and disease, God wouldn't think "it was good." Progressive Creationism teaches that when the bible says "day" it could mean "millions of years". In the bible, the Hebrew word for day, yôm, as it is used, can only mean a single, 24 hour period. In addition, when God says to keep the Sabbath Day, does he mean the Sabbath "millions of years"? It's the same contextual word in the Hebrew. Before we had people telling us what the book meant (and we just read the book for ourselves), a day meant a day. Then Darwin showed up and suddenly, "day" meant millions of years. That is compromising your position. And for those who say, "Yeah, but what about Second Peter, where it says a day is as a thousand years?" Please see this reply. Evolution teaches that information is ADDED to the genes as generations progressed. The bible says it was created whole, through God's word. In addition, the mutation, or speciations we OBSERVE have a LOSS of information, the opposite of what the Evolutionists say is required to go from amoebas to man. So "Progressive Creationism" doesn't, IMO, make sense. I can see being an evolutionist, I can see being a creationist, but it's a one side or the other deal. __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt Last edited by OnyxCougar; 11-28-2004 at 05:47 PM.