(02-23-2013, 04:12 PM)Danjo Wrote: [ -> ]I'll just drop in and say that I'm a christian (WELS Lutheran, if you've ever heard of that particular flavor) and a creationist. Come at me bro.
Young-Earth Creationism? I'm an Old-earth Creationist, technically, which means that evolution exists but God used it as a tool. Young-Earth is what Christian and Jewish fundamentalists believe.
Honestly, even though I disagree with it, I don't scoff at it as fast as most other people do because it does have some viable philosophical arguments. Me disagreeing with it doesn't give me the right to be a colossal cunt about it.
(02-23-2013, 04:12 PM)Danjo Wrote: [ -> ]And existentialism is just the philosophy of being depressed.
lel like I said, existentialism was started by Soren Kierkegaard, a practicing Christian, who ironically criticized the Bible and Christendom.
(02-23-2013, 04:31 PM)ln cognition Wrote: [ -> ]Can I ask how the creationism works though - as in the world being created 5ooo years ago, or?
That's Young-Earth Creationism. It's essentially what the story of Genesis says, but interpreted literally. So God
actually said "let there be light", created an
actual Eden and Adam and Eve and told Noah to put two of every animal on an ark.
(02-23-2013, 03:50 PM)ln cognition Wrote: [ -> ]My personal definition of god would probably be limited to some sort of entity with traits of a personality. One could probably go broader than that, but then there's probably equally useful words for the same concept, and I'd prefer if god remain with some tangible meaning (lol)
Yeah, because that's the generally accepted definition (a personal God).
(02-23-2013, 03:50 PM)ln cognition Wrote: [ -> ]I'm mostly an agnostic though, my atheism comes second to my ignorance. As such, I obviously agree with your last point. Your personal believes are just that; personal. When they start making you abuse others, though, I will object.
Yeah, blowing up one car is bad enough, but the moment you blow up two, that's enough, I'm putting my foot down :p
(02-23-2013, 04:49 PM)Danjo Wrote: [ -> ]I have mixed feelings about the whole young earth thing. I'm not a 5-6 thousand year person, but I also don't buy millions and billions of years. That being said I don't really think its important. How old everything is doesn't really affect how I view God. Plus if it was important there would be something about it in the Bible, but there isn't. geologic history and stuff already.
Of course, one thing I think is really smart about Buddhism is that creation myth truly is arbitrary and shouldn't affect your beliefs. Besides, literalism isn't seen as a core value in Christianity, so you could believe in evolution or YEC and still be a good Christian.
(02-23-2013, 04:49 PM)Danjo Wrote: [ -> ]My answer to how the world works if it isn't millions and billions of years old is that the world wasn't created as just some molten rock, it could have been created with a geologic history and stuff already.
Nobody really knows, and I don't think it really matters, but that's just an opinion
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(02-23-2013, 05:00 PM)ln cognition Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah, it's not really that important in everyday life. It's just that if that is wrong, then it creates a small crack in the dogma, and for every new fault it becomes harder to maintain the belief: For me, as a person who believes the world is about 15 milliard (>__>) years old and most definitely more than a few thousands, it would be pretty hard to adopt a belief where the world's age as 5ooo years old is considered a definite truth.
A small minority of Christians and Jews follow YEC though. My parents are very modern; they strongly believe in Catholicism but believe in evolution and allegorical interpretation of the Bible (the Vatican recognizes evolution as, and I quote, "virtually certain", and interprets the Bible allegorically).
(02-23-2013, 05:02 PM)Grungie Wrote: [ -> ]I've the billion years part with isotope dating of rocks and the fossils from the Precambrian from 600 million years ago.
The argument is that God put them in the ground to challenge the Christian faith.
Some more conspiracy-theory-style argument is that the government is involved. Seriously.
(02-23-2013, 05:10 PM)Danjo Wrote: [ -> ]Like I said, created old. Alternatively you could basically say God is a troll.
Hahaha, actually, that's not a bad argument at all.