Saturday, December 30, 2006

Co-Existance: God and Evolution

DISCLAIMER:
Okay, here's the deal. My theory basically only works when combined with itself. You won't be able to attempt to apply it to your own theories - because it requires basically all of its own parts to function. It's also based on a NON-LIBERAL interpretation of some Biblical passages. You may, or may not agree - but I ask that you don't try to assimilate your own theories to disprove mine. PLEASE feel free to explain and discuss you rown theories - I would LOVE to hear them! But, I just ask that you understand ALL THIS IS - IS A THEORY, and I'm not trying to sell anyone on it - or disprove anyone else's theories or thoughts. Finally - Peddie, this is for you!

The important aspect to my theory is the following:
God knows no time. Time is irrelevant to God. A minute is like an hour, and so forth.

It is believed that Moses wrote the Book of Gensis. Where the creation of the world/universe/Earth, etc... is recorded. So, during one of Moses' and God's "Hang Times" - God talked to Moses and told him what to write in Gensis. And God probably explained this to him:

"Moses, between you and me, I did not create the world in six days, but to make things easier for humans to understand, we are just going to call each period of time - one day."

Thus, the SIX DAYS were created, when in actuality, these "six days" spanned 4.5 Billion Years. (give a take a couple of million, we'll get into that soon...)

So, YES - Scientists are right with their "age" of the Earth. I'm afraid too many narrow-minded religious people aren't willing to take into account that each "day" that was written about, might not have been an actually 24-hour period, but instead a simplified way for God to talk to us. Otherwise, the Bible would read like this:

"On the first Billion Years, God created Light and Darkness. On the second billion years, God created Water. Etc..." (Obviously a PARAphrased version...) A "day" just probably seemed easier in vernacular.

So, here it goes:
"Day One" - A Billion Years.

"Day Two" - Another Billion. Up to Two Billion Years Old. A billion years sounds like just enough time for Vaalbara to seperate (starting 3.2 Billion Years ago) and form the modern continets, over another billion years - because God told it to.

"Day Three" add a Billion Years. Now, we're up to Three Billion.

"Day Four" add another Billion. Up to Four Billion.

"Day Five" - God creates "Creatures" NOT "animals", "Creatures".

So, after Four Billion Years of the Planet Earth existing (which felt like four days to God), he finally put some life on the planet. Now, if the world is 4.57 Billion Years Old, we are now looking at 570,000,000, Years ago.

Scientist believe Dinosaurs arrived on the planet 230,000,000 Years ago. Obviously, there is a minor flaw in someone's math. Perhaps the Scientists are a few hundred million years late with the arrival of the dinosaurs, or a few hundred million years over the life of the Earth, or perhaps God stayed up late one "day" and it was a little longer than One Billion Years. I can only imagine who long it took himt o perfect the stars... So many solar systems... Maybe he took a little extra time to create another planet of lifeforms? And that caused one of his "days" to run a little longer...???

"Day Six" should have started in 3995B.C. (I'll cover that in a second). Meaning, "Day Five" was actually 569,996,005 Years Long (give or take).

569,996,005 Years is PLENTY of time for dinosaurs to rule the earth, while other smaller creatures lived on Earth also.

Now, if Scientists are right about the "catastrophic event" which ended the dinosaurs existence 65,000,000 years ago - then that would give 64,996,005 Years between the End of Dinosaurs are God creating "man". PLENTY of time for the atmosphere to settle down, become breathable again. Plenty of time for the smaller creatures on Earth to continue to reporoduce, and adapt to their various living conditions.

And here is where I may lose some people's faith: 64,996,005 Years is enough time for God to evolve SOME Monkeys into semi-homo-sapien form.

Let's look at it this way: Out of EVERY creature on the planet only two of them share the same number of chromosomes (46, 23 from each parent) Humans and Monkeys. It's a little bit of a coincidence, don't you think? Environmental Adaptation, over millions upon millions of years could have led to a group of primates eventually adapting and evolving into a very human-like being. Perhaps, the "Iceman" was one of these pre-homo-sapiens, who was potentially part primate, and not fully developed as a thinking human being???

So, where do Evolution and Creationism cross paths? I honestly believe the answer is a simple one:

Genesis 4:16.

"And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden."


And what happened in the Land of Nod? Cain is said to have created the cityof Enoch, and fathered seven children. Who lived in the Land of Nod? And how was Cain able to father children?


Living in the Land of Nod, were the semi-homo-sapiens, who "evolved" or "adapted" from primates. Cain had children. These children were hybrids. And over the next few thousand years, they helped mankind shape its self as an extremely diverse group of people - with thousands upon thousands of variations that make each person unique. Heck, if all of these people lived in the Middle-East, it's very probable that these "hybrids" are actually responsible for the way "White People" look???


So, my long and short answer: Evolution Happened - BECAUSE God WANTED it to, SO THAT when Cain killed his brother, he would have a community for Cain to end up at. God planned evolution to take place, so that it would "catch up" with his human creations, at the exact moment that he wanted it to happen.


The Earth is as old as the scientists say.
Evolution happened, similar to how scientists believed.
God ALLOWED all of this to take place - because it ALL was part of his PLAN.


Oh, and my final arguement towards the "mating" between Cain and a semi-homo-sapien is the following:



3 comments:

MSouders said...

So, does this make the Ewing family closer to God, or...
Interesting theory. I agree, some of the real fundamentalist types will really have a problem with this. Personally, I like the theory.

mmaier2112 said...

You deleted my comment but call Ewing a proto-gorilla.

You are woefully inconsistent.

Dave said...

I've never understood why extremely conservative, literal christians can't understand your theory. It says in the Bible that the blink of an eye for God is equal to X number of years for mankind or something like that.

Evolution is also the most logical theory that science has been able to come up with to explain adaptation. I can see some people complaining that man was made in God's image and evolution is changing God's image. Personally, I don't see evolution as improving the design of something, I see it as a way of adapting to surrounds. Evolution is a lateral shift, not an improvement. Every evolutional change can negatively affect creatures if they're moved to a different part of the earth.

If people were smart enough to realize science and faith can go together, we'd be much better.

Also, the Moses writing Genesis is more conventional wisdom than truth. Biblical scholars believe that Genesis, and much of the Bible, is a compilation from several sources. It helps explain why stories are repeated, and sometimes contradictory.

While I'm not a Christian, I think your theory is perfectly logical within a Christian frame of reference. I didn't read the scientific timeline closely, but it's how I've always attempted to explain Earth to stubborn Christians.

By the way, watch Jesus Camp. There's scene with a home school evangelical family dealing with this subject that blew my mind.