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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)
I think the earth goes around the sun.
(March 9, 2009 - 10:24 am)
I'm gonna throw in my personal belief here (and I really want comments). Please take this seriously and think about it. What if creation and evolution could co-exist? I can hear the collective gasp now, but really think. What if God (I do believe in God wholeheartedly although I am not a Christian but agnostic [fancy word for believe in God but no organized religion]) created the earth in 6 "God Days". What if 6 days for God was really millions of years for Earth? God could have created the world just like in the Bible (and many other religious texts) using this method. Think about it. God could have created the whole universe and all that is on our planet. In those 6 "days" the dinosaurs could have evolved. There I said it EVOLVED. Think of it this way: God created the Earth and the creatures on it, but who is to say what those creatures looked like. It would take carefull breeding to create a perfect creation that wouldn't fall apart at the seams. I'll get to the point. What if God causes evolution? It's perfect you see: creatures that survive are able to evolve or adapt to their changing environment. If God wants a creature to survive he would enable it evolve, if not the creature dies when it is unable to cope. It would be like a giant garden of carefully tended plants. See how it works: God creates the world and then tends it through evolution!
And by the way most tests that scientists make are pretty acurate. I recommend studying a subject before proving it wrong or right. Use me as an example. I am reading the Bible to get as many facts (or close to facts) as I can before I decide on a religion.
(August 7, 2008 - 1:31 pm)
When I was a bit younger, I thought more or less what you do. I have studied the subject very thoroughly. As you can see from my original letter, the Bible and Evolution simply cannot live together. Aside from what I mentioned, also the earth was created before the stars and other planets. By the way, the universe may be expanding, but without the billions of years that evolution requires, you don't even need the Big Bang. The big bang assumes that the universe is that old, so it's not proven.
(August 7, 2008 - 6:41 pm)
But the Big Bang makes complete sense, as does stars coming before the earth. Check it:
The earth rotates the sun. What would the earth do with out the sun?
(August 7, 2008 - 8:10 pm)
If the Big Bang was true, there should be a big hole in the middle of the universe. Besides that, the Big Bang would have had to have contained enough matter for 100 million universes, because antimatter crashing into matter eliminate each other. All packed into a microscopic point! Impossible!
(August 8, 2008 - 2:34 pm)
Um, What? why would there be a big hole? and there might be. a Black hole.
(August 8, 2008 - 3:33 pm)
A big hole being where the big bang happened. All the matter would have exploded away from it, and so there should be a just plain HUGE expanse where there are no galaxies. Nothing.
(August 9, 2008 - 3:32 pm)
It would be a very tiny hole then.
(August 10, 2008 - 10:18 pm)
Final someone RATIONAL on this thread, besides me.
(August 7, 2008 - 8:07 pm)
I am really for the evalution view of it. I do not really belive that there is a god, but I think the whole spirit of the idea is a good one. Please, do not be offended because those are just my views. I am not saying anything is right or wrong. It all depends on who your parents are and my parents are not religious.
(August 8, 2008 - 9:08 pm)
If someone asked me if I believed in god, I would say that I don't know if he's real, I don't know if he's not.
(March 9, 2009 - 10:30 am)
Wendy, you're totally right!!! First of all, I think that God created the Big Bang which created the Earth. Then He started evolution going and left the Earth to itself. I don't think Genesis was wrong it just wasn't exactly right. I mean, who wrote it anyway? Adam? Was anyone alive back then? What if Adam was a caveman? He wouldn't know how to write!
(August 14, 2008 - 10:49 am)
Actually, Genesis was written by Moses, a couple thousand years later. But... It's only evolution that says Adam wouldn't have been very intelligent. Evolution tells us that ancient = primitive. But think of all the very advanced ancient cultures.
(August 14, 2008 - 1:05 pm)
No. it was writen by many people. every one in religon knows that.
(August 14, 2008 - 9:33 pm)
TMFA, there is part of a verse in the Bible that says "All Scripture is God-breathed" So whoever you think wrote Genesis, you can be sure that God inspired him and gave him the words.
(August 16, 2008 - 12:52 pm)