Discussion about Jesus’s death which now encompasses creationism and the second coming. Thread 2

Why did all the marsupials head to Australia afterwards? Why did none of them walk as far as say, India, and decide this is far enough? Why are none of them mentioned in the Bible in the first place?

Creationists don't deny that evolution happens within species, but one species does not evolve into another. None of the bacteria that have been observed to evolve have evolved into different types of organism.

Well lets see. Did life on earth evolve over billions of years, and continue to evolve? Is there geological, archeological and phsycal evidence of how amoeba, invertebrae, insects, birds, animals and mankind have evolved and developed. Why yes, there is.

Or, did they suddenly appear from nowhere 5 billion years after the planet was formed, fully developed. Shortly after that, were they all wiped out a bar a boatful of animals (conveniently in pairs) and life on earth was rebooted becuase god was upset. Any evidence of that... Why no, there isn't...

I haven’t observed it in real time as no one has, but I believe what the scientists say.

God is Love, and that's why He made us and the world we live in. Our loving Him is for our common benefit, not to meet a personal need of God.

Try this article:

biblehub.com/q/why_does_god_need_worship.htm

Can you explain how that link is supposed to help please? It is not and does not pretend to be scientifcally accurate.

EVERYTHING is an intermediate stage of evolution because evolution hasn't stopped. It's a continuous process. And lets take your cats as an example. Look at how many breeds of cat there are now. Look at how different a Maine coon is from a bengal. That's just in a couple of hundred years of targeted breeding. Is it impossible to think that with a little more time that they will differ so much that they will be unable to breed? Take a chihuahua and a St. Bernard. They could not possibly reproduce naturally now. In a sense they are different species now. All evolution needs is time.

https://apologeticspress.org/the-flood-explains-the-fossil-record-5751/

You believe he does answer some prayers, don’t you?

So if he is capable of doing so then why does he answer some but not those of thousands of religious children every year who pray to god (who they wholeheartedly believe in) to stop the sexual abuse they are being subjected to?

Why does allowing the free will of the person raping the child take priority over the prayers of the child, if god is omnipotent and does answer some prayers?

It’s a genuine questions as nobody has actually answered this on here I don’t think.

You believe he does answer some prayers, don’t you?

So if he is capable of doing so then why does he answer some but not those of thousands of religious children every year who pray to god (who they wholeheartedly believe in) to stop the sexual abuse they are being subjected to?

Why does allowing the free will of the person raping the child take priority over the prayers of the child, if god is omnipotent and does answer some prayers?

It’s a genuine questions as nobody has actually answered this on here I don’t think.

Some species of bacteria have been unequivocally observed to have evolved over a period of a few years, because they have a very short generation time. Creationists say that this doesn't count though 🙄

Ah, so fossils can be used as a fact to support the belief that there was a flood a couple of thousand years ago (even though fossils take around 10,000 years to form and it is impossible for a flood to have covered the whole world and then subsided in 40 days). But can't be used to support evolution... Okay... that stacks up ;)

Analysis shows that an ark that big could house the number of animals required (around 6,000) but does not show that the people of that time had the capability of building such a vessel. It also fails to take into account the 40 days (and nights...) of food and water required for all those animals. Or indeed the waste generated and how just two people would deal with it all. But, why let facts get in the way of a good story

Ah, so fossils can be used as a fact to support the belief that there was a flood a couple of thousand years ago (even though fossils take around 10,000 years to form and it is impossible for a flood to have covered the whole world and then subsided in 40 days). But can't be used to support evolution... Okay... that stacks up ;)

Analysis shows that an ark that big could house the number of animals required (around 6,000) but does not show that the people of that time had the capability of building such a vessel. It also fails to take into account the 40 days (and nights...) of food and water required for all those animals. Or indeed the waste generated and how just two people would deal with it all. But, why let facts get in the way of a good story

God can do impossible things. If he couldn't, he wouldn't be God.

Actually Noah's ark isn't far fetched. The fossil records support the idea of a global flood. Some people in America built a life size replica of the ark, using the measurements given in the Bible, and showed that it could house all those animals.

I haven’t observed it in real time as no one has, but I believe what the scientists say.

If God intervened to stop every bad thing he would have destroyed the world long ago. He is patient with us because he longs for people to turn and repent and not face eternal punishment.

How do you know it's taken thousands of years if it can't be observed or reproduced? Where are all the intermediate stages of evolution? Carvings from ancient Egypt are thousands of years old and cats and scarab beetles don't appear to have evolved in that time.

How do you know it's taken thousands of years if it can't be observed or reproduced? Where are all the intermediate stages of evolution? Carvings from ancient Egypt are thousands of years old and cats and scarab beetles don't appear to have evolved in that time.

Where did this first woman and man come from though? Is it really more far fetched to say that God made them than to say that nothing exploded and people came from grown up pond slime?

Actually Noah's ark isn't far fetched. The fossil records support the idea of a global flood. Some people in America built a life size replica of the ark, using the measurements given in the Bible, and showed that it could house all those animals.

God can do impossible things. If he couldn't, he wouldn't be God.

It take thousands of years, which is the most significant reason the earth isn’t only few thousand years old.

What about the dinosaurs? Are the scientists wrong in stating they lived millions of years ago?

If you have no certainty, how can be sure that there isn't a day of judgement?