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I believe that the bible is the living word of God and is without error or flaw. I believe that every word in the bible was chosen by God, and He wouldn't let His holy Word be corrupted. I take everything literally in the bible (except when it is obvious, like when Jesus is using a parable). biggrin

But would it really take God 6 million years to create the universe? I mean, come on, He's God! Time means nothing to Him, He lives outside of time (as C.S. Lewis says so very clearly in Mere Christianity). He could have made the whole universe in 6 seconds if He wanted because He is outside of time. So I guess He could have taken 6 million years, but seeing as how I don't believe in the whole "dinosuars lived 64 million years ago" thing, I have no reason to believe that. (I believe that dinosaurs lived with man, and just became extinct like the many other species that have....like the wooly mammoth and the siberian tiger and the passanger pigeon and the dodo bird... And I believe that since the word "dinosaur" was made up in the 1800's, it is very likely that the word "dragon" is the exact same thing. I could find a source if you want....but you can make another thread for that whole thing) (oh and yeah, science is for examining, not setting up time-lines. They just make guesses, build theories on those guesses, and when they think they've got a nice story, they feed it into textbooks at schools.)

So basically, the six days might have been six million years, but I have not reason to believe that. I think it's fine to believe it, and it really doesn't matter. It doesn't decide whether you inherit the kingdom of God or not. biggrin

Meh... I don't think there is so much a mixture as there is a differene between christianity and science. I can trust science up to a point. I can trust when they say things like "If you add a proton to a hydrogen atom, then it becomes a helium atom" and "Temperature increases the reaction rate in a chemical reaction." Those sort of things are observations, which is what science is and should be about. But when science starts stating stuff they never observed, and just basically carefully made up, that is where I draw the line in my trust. I personally believe that the world is only tens of thousands of years old, and not billions of years old. I believe that all creation was created together, within the six days that genesis explains. I believe that dinosaurs (which were called different names back then, since the word "dinosaur" was a modern invention) roamed the earth with men, and that they just died out. I don't trust a system where they think up "logical" situations, tweak them up and make them nearly flawless, then feed them to us. Evolution? Nuh-uh, never happened. Well, that's what I believe anyway.

To the entire evolution thing. It's all about how you interpret the information provided. You think hmmmm these look similiar therefore they must have once had a common ancestor. Or you can think hmmm these look similiar therefore they have the same Maker.

There are no transitionary fossils. This means that there is no evidence of speices changing into others. All speices show up in the fossil record fully formed.

Exactly. That's all I have to say. Exactly. rofl

Actually, I have an incredible book I think everyone in the world should take a look at that talks about this very subject. It's really interesting, references everything it says, and is very strengthening. ^^ Mainly just the first few chapters are about this, the rest compares Christianity and Mormonism--so you don't have to read that part. But you should. 4laugh This is the title:

God's Word, final, infallible, and forever: Compelling evidence for the Bible's inspiration and preservation by Floyd C. McElveen

In it's original Hebrew/Greek, I belive in most of the Bible, leaving room for human error. In it's translated English versions, I take very little of it at face value.

I am willing to accept evidence, but remember that any theory is not scientific evidence. And it's all the theories that I have problems with. Everyone can agree that work = force x distance. Everyone can believe that the Actual Mechanical Advantage of a machine is always less than it's Ideal Mechanical Advantage due to friction. These things are solid facts that were observed, tested, and proven. Not everybody can believe that nothing one day exploded and formed the universe trillions of years ago. Why? Because it's a theory, and it is not proven. The job of science is to observe facts in nature, not write the history of the universe using two or three small facts that slightly back it up. That's all that I was saying. If you have any evidence, go ahead and share it. But if it's a theory, just please don't use it because it proves nothing. 3nodding