Young Earth Creation
Introduction Our human nature is to question and seek truth about everything in this world. For many centuries the origin of human kind was not a debated topic and all believed that the creation story of genesis where God’s hands over a six-day period created all that we know. This common knowledge was challenged in 1755 by a German Philosopher named Immanuel Kant (Macpherson, 1911) He was known as the central figure of modern philosophy and created the theory that the earth was much older then the bible stated. For this Comparative essay, I will be discussing the Original Creation of the Earth and the Age of the Earth. In this essay I will compare the two key viewpoints of the Nebular Hypothesis (Old-Earth Secular view) and Six-Day Creation
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This is directly and literally taken from the first chapter of Genesis in which it describes god forming light and darkness, the heavens and earth, and everything that inhabits it. On the seventh day God had chose this day to rest after the six days of creating he entire universe. This belief of a six-day creation completely contradicts the scientific community and the theory of evolution, or more commonly known as the “Big Bang” theory.
Comparison of the Viewpoints Of the many similarities between Young-earth views and Old-Earth views the most prominent one would be a firm belief in the opposition to naturalism. Although the differences in how the actual earth was formed the fact that god created all of mankind and all animals on the earth is a fact in both old-earth and young-earth views (Geisler, 2003). Evolution is a strong disbelief for either view in regards to creation. Both views deny that all life descended by completely natural processes without supernatural intervention from the outside (Geisler, 2003). The belief God created all animals and mankind can be traced to the Great Flood in the book of Genesis. This is where the entire earth was flooded because the human race became too sinful so he commanded Noah and his family to build a Great arc and get two of every animal onto the …show more content…
Young-Earth Creationists deny all evidence of dinosaurs dating over 10,000 years ago and simply see it as they did live but also when mankind lived. In Fact, some Young-Earth creationists believe that dinosaurs may still exist in remote and unexplored parts of the world. This is in direct contrast of Old-World beliefs because they believe the evidence of fossils dating 65 to 210 million years ago, where they lived and died out, and long before human
This is directly and literally taken from the first chapter of Genesis in which it describes god forming light and darkness, the heavens and earth, and everything that inhabits it. On the seventh day God had chose this day to rest after the six days of creating he entire universe. This belief of a six-day creation completely contradicts the scientific community and the theory of evolution, or more commonly known as the “Big Bang” theory.
Comparison of the Viewpoints Of the many similarities between Young-earth views and Old-Earth views the most prominent one would be a firm belief in the opposition to naturalism. Although the differences in how the actual earth was formed the fact that god created all of mankind and all animals on the earth is a fact in both old-earth and young-earth views (Geisler, 2003). Evolution is a strong disbelief for either view in regards to creation. Both views deny that all life descended by completely natural processes without supernatural intervention from the outside (Geisler, 2003). The belief God created all animals and mankind can be traced to the Great Flood in the book of Genesis. This is where the entire earth was flooded because the human race became too sinful so he commanded Noah and his family to build a Great arc and get two of every animal onto the …show more content…
Young-Earth Creationists deny all evidence of dinosaurs dating over 10,000 years ago and simply see it as they did live but also when mankind lived. In Fact, some Young-Earth creationists believe that dinosaurs may still exist in remote and unexplored parts of the world. This is in direct contrast of Old-World beliefs because they believe the evidence of fossils dating 65 to 210 million years ago, where they lived and died out, and long before human