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Originally Posted by Bullitt
One guy tried to explain to me that the whole universe was made of water and some of it compressed and formed solid matter but not all, so when the Biblical Flood happened, that was excess water from the universe falling onto the earth..
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This sounds like a poorly explained version of the Canopy Theory.
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the whole approach of creation science kills me. They start with a conclusion and then seek a hypothesis and "experimentation" to support the conclusion, which is not exactly how the scientific method works last I checked.
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Well, Creationists (of which I am one) ask the same question that the Evolutionists do, which is: how did all this get here?
The Evolutionists say that a point of nothingness exploded and out of this explosion came all matter and energy in the whole universe which eventually coagulated and became solar systems and planets. One of these somehow formed just the right mix of amino acids and protiens and through some literally unestimable random chance, life just happened, and then more stuff happened, and the life got more complex and then more complex until finally, there were people. Time is the hero of the story.
But they can't prove it.
The Creationists say that a being beyond our true comprehension created time, the universe and everything in it as part of a Grand Design, creating the solar system and planets and earth and water and plants and animals and people all as distinct types. God is the hero of the story.
But we can't prove that either.
Oh, both sides will come up with "evidence" to support their theories, but the result is this: We can't duplicate it. We can't observe what happened at the beginning. We can only take what we see now and the processes we see occuring now and try to extrapolate that back (which isn't accurate either, because things NEVER stay the same).
So the CvE question will remain a debate that depends on your other worldviews.
However, I will say this: If a person professes to be a Christian, then they CANNOT believe that Evolution is true, because it is 180 degrees of the Bible. As with many other things, there are times when you have to pick one side or the other. This is one issue that you can't believe in both.