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Boy am I glad the Chatterbox is finally open! I have been checking every day since the beginning of June. Which is why I am wondering, if the Chatterbox only opened today, why on earth are there multiple posts from June 18th and 19th? Anyway, about the Creation/Evolution debate, I am a creationist. But unlike Piccadilly M. and Megan C. and Victoria and Mary A., from the Jan. 05 and Feb. 06 and December 05 issues, I believe that God created the world in six literal days. There is absolutely no need to compromise the Genesis record with Evolutionary rubbish. It doesn't work. Apple trees were created before jellyfish, birds were created before dinosaurs, and all plants were created before the sun! It must have been six literal days or the plants would never have survived. To Telly K. (September 2006): I want to know exactly what studies have shown that the earth is 4.6 billion years old because I'll bet they are false. Secondly, the only reason people think the fossil record is that old is because scientists who use unreliable testing methods say so. And the time line is completely made up and not at all based on fossil depth. It is people arranging the fossils into a convenient order. Also, the third point in her letter is fairly weak. If you believe in creation, then it is easy to see that the moth was created with an 11 inch proboscis to be able to feed out of the particular flower. Lastly, viruses were created to mutate and so survive.
submitted by Emily L., age 13, Washington
(July 29, 2008 - 6:30 pm)
(July 29, 2008 - 6:30 pm)
Emily I've been checking since June, too. I agree that the earth/universe were created in 6 days.
(July 30, 2008 - 1:29 pm)
How in the world could the world be made in 6 days? Our universe is so complex and wonderful. There are so many little wonders. I think its silly to asume that the tests that state that the world is ancient are all frauds.
(July 30, 2008 - 4:06 pm)
Dear Mayr,
The world has so many little wonders that it makes more sense that it has a designer than that it was created entirely by chance. God is all-powerful and he is not limited by time. He could have created the world in six seconds if he had wanted to.
(July 31, 2008 - 12:32 pm)
I agree with you mayr. Some tests may be wrong but to say all of them are is just silly. But that's just my point of veiw.
(August 1, 2008 - 5:08 pm)
I know, how in the world could the world be created in six days? Not possible. With all the cretures and plants. The world has so many species that you couldn't even create all of them in six million years. The humans probobly don't know about half the cretures there are in the world. The world is just to conplex. Think about it. It's amaizing. No one could have thought it up in six days. There is probobly a million cretures that are extinct that humans did not know about and they got extinct a few years ago. No one tought me anything about that, that's just what I think. bacteria is probobly not the smallest living thing in the world.
(March 9, 2009 - 10:19 am)
"Lastly, viruses were created to mutate and so survive. "
Let's start with that. We'll ignore the created part, as evolution has nothing to do with the origins of life.
a Virus mutates. and then splits in two. then those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split and those mutate and reproduce or split,
And on and on forever. over hundreds of billions of generations, complex and smarter orgamisms form.
(July 30, 2008 - 6:03 pm)
I see your point. But the virus, after all those mutations, ... is still a virus. It cannot grow legs, become intelligent, acquire a new sense, or even change its symptoms. Its symptoms may become stronger, but a stomach flu virus is definitely not going to give anyone ankle pain. If it was a virus related to joints, it might do that, but not otherwise. The reason viruses mutate is so that they can get by an immune system that has already learned to fight them in their current state. A mutated virus is a better virus... but only until your immune system learns to fight it.
(July 31, 2008 - 8:46 pm)
A virus is just a bit of DNA and RNA. A mutation changes DNA. DNA tells the cells what to do. If DNA tells the Virus to change somehow, it will. A Virus Can't Grow legs, Right. But a Virus can change how it reproduces, if the DNA for it changes.
It's Confusing.
Oh, and Virus are just DNA. They don't make you sneeze. Tather, the reaction of the immune system makes you sneeze or gives you ankle pain.
(August 1, 2008 - 11:23 am)
That is not a contradiction to what Emily is saying, so she is still right. No?
(August 1, 2008 - 6:20 pm)
I'm not saying Emily's wrong, but how can you guys ignore the evidence? Like fossils and dinosaurs and everything else scientists have discovered. On a lighter subject, what came first, the chicken or the egg?
(August 3, 2008 - 1:09 pm)
The chicken, cause God made it!
(August 4, 2008 - 8:08 pm)
The egg, as birds are from dinosaurs.
(August 4, 2008 - 11:44 pm)
THE CHICKEN God made the chicken and the Rooster and they had the egg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(August 6, 2008 - 10:15 am)
How do you know God didn't create 2 eggs and out of them came a chicken and rooster?
(August 7, 2008 - 1:35 pm)
Birds did not come from dinosaurs. Did you know: There are actually no transitional forms between them, and not a bit of evidence on the scale-to-feather thing. Archaeopteryx is bird through and through. By the way, there are other birds with claws on their wings. Look it up.
(August 6, 2008 - 2:00 pm)