It matters to a lot of people: about half of Aussies surveyed said the matter of science and evolution prevents them from taking the claims of Christianity seriously.
Timing doesn’t have to be such a problem because many others can leave the timing question open, having found good and sufficient reasons for Christianity elsewhere. Such as: . in the manuscripts and archaeology of the Bible which indicate it was reliably transmitted, and the prophecies and storyline within it which indicate a divine source. . in the historicity of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, the latter giving further evidence of the divine. And therefore a supernatural creator is plausible without even addressing the timing issue. But for Aussies without such other anchor-points, it’s understandable that science and evolution is a problem because what we read in Genesis 1 is so shockingly different from what most of us are taught in school about billions of years and evolution. So it is fair to ask, “which timing is right?” I'd say, "only the Creator's Account interprets all observations consistently." I'll have to defend that. It does require further investigation. But many will just wander away from the Bible in favour of a simplistic impression of "the science." And others might want to uphold both science and the Bible, but notice that one or the other will have to be interpreted differently. At this point most people assume the Bible should be interpreted differently, because science must be mostly right by now. But that's also simplistic. Because they don’t know that sciences aint sciences: Observational sciences which produce technology and medicines, are based on observations. However, Historical sciences which are about origins, are based more on interpretations of observations. Since direct observations of the past can't be made, lots of unfounded assumptions are offered in the name of "the science" of origins. I had a well-founded faith in God for years without having to decide the creation timing matter, because I had those other anchor-points. But when I finally did examine the evidence (Biblical and scientific), I eventually found that when it comes to origins, most of us missed out on some critical information.
Contrary to what I was taught at school and most media outlets, I have found on closer inspection that Bible-based interpretations of origins involving special creation are more consistent with all the relevant observations than any naturalistic interpretation. After all, it does stand to reason: Only the Creator’s Account interprets ALL observations consistently. |
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