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Four quotations that illustrate the great gulf in beliefs concerning origins of the earth and its life forms: 2014-APR: Olivia McConnell from New Zion, SC, aged 8, wrote the governor of the state. The state has a state bird, flower, fish, tree, spider, amphibian, reptile, fruit, and 20 others, but no state fossil. This section discusses the origin of life (abiogenesis) and the development of species, including creation science, intelligent design, theistic evolution, and naturalistic evolution. Specific topics are: Introductory essays: (Please read these first) Beliefs about the origin of the species: Carbon-14 dating techniques: How it works; beliefs of scientists, beliefs of new-earth creationists... Religions - Christianity: Creationism and intelligent design. Sikh Scriptures - Creation of The Universe - Sikhism. From Creation to Evolution. - Theological and Scientific Theories, of an Evolution in Animated Nature. Warfare of Science with Theology Chapter I: From Creation to Evolution WE have seen, thus far, how there came into the thinking of mankind upon the visible universe and its inhabitants the idea of a creation virtually instantaneous and complete, and of a Creator in human form with human attributes, who spoke matter into existence literally by the exercise of his throat and lips, or shaped and placed it with his hands and fingers.
We have seen that this view came from far; that it existed in the Chaldaeo-Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations, and probably in others of the earliest date known to us; that its main features passed thence into the sacred books of the Hebrews and then into the early Christian Church, by whose theologians it was developed through the Middle Ages and maintained during the modern period. This idea, in various forms, became a powerful factor in nearly all the greater ancient theologies and philosophies. The Rev. Prof. St. A Theory of Biblical Creation. Popular practice among many proponents of evolutionism—including the “regulars” at the Talk.Origins newsgroup—is to claim that “no one has ever presented a scientific theory of creation to us,”[1] without which they find it “impossible to objectively evaluate the idea of creation.”
They then hasten to confirm this by “evaluating” the idea of creation—without objectivity! Such an approach to the topic of origins shall be shown below to be unreasonable, prejudiced, less-than-honest, and (therefore) not particularly scientific. Feigned(?) Ignorance A classic example of evolutionist pretending may be found at the “Talk.Origins Archive,” an evolutionist website professing to “explore” origins, yet advocating only evolutionary perspectives. “A scientific theory must have predictive value, must be internally consistent, must be falsifiable, and must explain at least those phenomena explained by the currently dominant theory.”
The Creation Research Society Quarterly (CRSQ) Journal of. What are Scientology religious beliefs about the creation of the universe? The Origin of the Universe. Introduction In this article we will look very briefly at the science of the big bang theory.
We’ll consider some of the history of the developing theory. We will also consider its theological significance. Marilyn Vos Savant stated in Parade magazine, February 4, 1996, “I think that if it had been a religion that first maintained the notion that all the matter in the entire universe had once been contained in an area smaller than the point of a pin, scientists probably would have laughed at the idea. " In fact the Bible does say something remarkably similar, and yes it has been laughed at by many. “ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1), “ He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea” (Job 9:8 NIV), and “ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” The big bang theory like any scientific theory is best understood as subject to change.