Hi guys, Lets stir the pot a little.
What is significant about Glen Rose is fossil records and human foot prints inside of dinosaur footprints. The significance is the fossils show that dinosaurs and man existed at the same time and have been dated to thousands of years ago not millions. This information can be found at http://www.creationism.org/cem/.
To deny that the bible is the written word as God had intended in the final analysis is to deny the authority and existence of God. Now do I believe people can verbally distort the bible? Yes. You see it all the time. But the bible or the written word is quite different.
Shaun
I studied anthropology in school and the human footprints dating with dinosaurs is something I never heard of. Sorry but dinosaurs lived millions of years ago. I believe the science. I am agnostic in my views so I am still open to possibilities. But to say that you have to believe in the bible inorder to believe in God I find hard to swallow. After all the Jews believe in the old testament ( not the new), The Muslims believe the new testament was inspired by Jesus ( but as a prophet not the son of God) and these two other religions believe in the same God. They just interpret his authority differently then Christians do.
My uncle is a believer and he says that maybe God used evolution as a means for creation, so he has no problem combining the two. The problem I find is when people think that the bible is the all to end all arguments. The Bible is not God, it might be an instrument of God, and it is in its use that it fullfills a purpose.
Since the bible has gone through different translations from different languages, I find it hard for others to not comprehend how distortions can creep in. Heck just look at this form where we are writing using translators for communicating to women overseas, and sometimes mistakes are made. I hear the Greek word for 'day' that was used in the six days to create the world is also a word that can mean a length of time. I hear that the bible was written in ancient Greek, modern Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew. And to have accurate translations?
As to evolution and fossil records. Why not look microscopic. Have ther not been new strains of viruses and dieases and bacterias? The problem with complex organisims is it takes a long time to see evoultion happening. But on the microscopic level, every year the flu comes back different and the vaccine of last year might not work this year. Why? because the viruses has mutated. We have intermingled plant genes to create new forms of wheat and plants. Now this is just a minor change but I do not have to stretch my mind to see how nature, over time, or even by God's hand, has caused the emergance of new species. So please, just because I question parts of the Bible, doesn't mean I refute all of it.
[I remember my great Grandfather saying that he trusted the buffalo soldier more the the pinda licoyea ( white man ).
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I can't say north of the Border we were better (what with the wiskey traders and small pocks) But I like hearing the story of when a troop of US cavarly were sent to the border to collect a small tribe of American Indians returning to their reservation. They were meet at the border by two RCMP officers escorting about 60 Sioux. When asked where the rest of the soldiers were, the RCMP officer said," Oh he is over the hill cooking breakfast."
I liked the idea of the Great Spirit, because as I explained before, I am agnostic. I would say that I was an Atheist before( can't make any money with no prophet), but because of my journey of self discovery, including finding my new wife from Chnlove, I am open to the possibility of some life force that helps guide us with this Gift called Life.
