Jophiel wrote:
When one converts from Jehovah's Witness-ism to Bisexual Atheism do you suddenly decide to believe that the Earth is a couple billion years old and all that "Those scientists don't know what they're talking about" stuff was a self delusion or do you now maintain that it just popped into existence 6,000 years ago on its own?
This is a sincere question, by the way.
Edited, Oct 8th 2010 12:06am by Jophiel
Well, to be fair, J-dubs are not "young earth creationists". They do believe that the earth and the universe are billions of years old (since this has been proven beyond question and, [sarcasim]obviously[/sarcasim] the Bible can't conflict with fact). They do, however, belive that man himself is an act of special creation and only about 6K years old. They believe the various forms of animal life were also created all along they way during those billions of years. Why an "all-powerful" god had to **** about for billions of years before getting aournd to making man is never explained.
So. No change on the age of the universe/earth required, but changes in a lot of related beliefs.
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Also, I'm rather supprised to hear that such a clear-thinking person as yourself continues to believe in a being that science has proven to be redundant. Mind if I ask why?