re: Problem with Big Bang Theory and Creationism

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There could have been a creator but the 7 day thing is just silly

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If you look at the original text the word for "day" also translates to "age". As in "Stone age" or "bronze age". Look at those first few verses of Genesis again and ask yourself "how much does the progession of God created *animal* match up with the theory of evolution?".

I think you'll be surprised.

I just want to know when you lose weight where does it go?

The problem with creationists (and I say this as a Christian) is that they are not content with others simply accepting that God may have triggered the Big Bang and that science and religion are not in conflict.

It has to conform to a specific construct, i.e., the book of Genesis. This is where they go off the rails. As a Catholic I am free to conclude that Genesis is allegorical literature and not have my faith (in either God or science) shaken in the least.

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According to the Bible, God always existed.

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So here in the 21st century you believe the "Word of God" is a book that was edited in the 17th century, from 16th century translations of 8,000 contradictory "copies" of 4th century scrolls that claim to be "copies"of lost letters written in the 1st century?

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This is a much bigger concept to be suckered into.

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FIFY

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So here in the 21st century you believe the "Word of God" is a book that was edited in the 17th century, from 16th century translations of 8,000 contradictory "copies" of 4th century scrolls that claim to be "copies"of lost letters written in the 1st century?

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Everything in this sentence is inaccurate.

Believe in something, even if it came from nothing.

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So here in the 21st century you believe the "Word of God" is a book that was edited in the 17th century, from 16th century translations of 8,000 contradictory "copies" of 4th century scrolls that claim to be "copies"of lost letters written in the 1st century?

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Same old rethread argument.
There are more manuscripts or partial manuscripts of the Bible to verify its validity than any other ancient manuscripts that are completely accepted as authentic.

There can’t be nothing without something, and vice versa. “This” has always been and always will be.

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completely accepted as authentic.

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by the gullible...to say that the claims of "Christian" scholars are verification of the bibles authenticity is just like saying "I did not commit that crime officer, I'm a good boy...just ask my momma". While we are able to positively identify permineralized microorganisms from nearly 3.5 billion years ago, complete dinosaur fossils from 100's of millions of years and homo sapien fossils and settlements from 100's of thousands of years ago, why in the holy hell can we not find one single piece of archaeological evidence of one single confirmed character of the bible much less geological evidence anywhere on Earth of the great flood from Noah and his ark from 2000-3000 years ago? The only explanation is that they never existed. I understand your cognitive dissonance will not allow any information to enter your brain that may contradict what you have convinced yourself is true...but if you can answer that question without the answer being "works in mysterious ways" I would love to know it.

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one single piece of archaeological evidence of one single confirmed character of the bible

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How I know you don't know what you are talking about...

Biblical Archeology

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Genesis 23 reports that Abraham buried Sarah in the Cave of Machpelah, which he purchased from Ephron the Hittite. Second Samuel 11 tells of David’s adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite. A century ago the Hittites were unknown outside of the Old Testament, and critics claimed that they were a figment of biblical imagination. In 1906, however, archaeologists digging east of Ankara, Turkey, discovered the ruins of Hattusas, the ancient Hittite capital at what is today called Boghazkoy, as well as its vast collection of Hittite historical records, which showed an empire flourishing in the mid-second millennium BC.
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First Kings 14 and 2 Chronicles 12 tell of Pharaoh Shishak’s conquest of Judah in the fifth year of the reign of King Rehoboam, the brainless son of Solomon, and how Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem was robbed of its treasures on that occasion. This victory is also commemorated in hieroglyphic wall carvings on the Temple of Amon at Thebes.
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Second Kings 3 reports that Mesha, the king of Moab, rebelled against the king of Israel following the death of Ahab. A three-foot stone slab, also called the Mesha Stele, confirms the revolt by claiming triumph over Ahab’s family, c. 850 BC, and that Israel had “perished forever.”
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In 2 Kings 9–10, Jehu is mentioned as King of Israel (841–814 BC). That the growing power of Assyria was already encroaching on the northern kings prior to their ultimate conquest in 722 BC is demonstrated by a six-and-a-half-foot black obelisk discovered in the ruins of the palace at Nimrud in 1846. On it, Jehu is shown kneeling before Shalmaneser III and offering tribute to the Assyrian king, the only relief we have to date of a Hebrew monarch.
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King Hezekiah of Judah ruled from 721 to 686 BC. Fearing a siege by the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, Hezekiah preserved Jerusalem’s water supply by cutting a tunnel through 1,750 feet of solid rock from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam inside the city walls (2 Kings 20; 2 Chron. 32). At the Siloam end of the tunnel, an inscription, presently in the archaeological museum at Istanbul, Turkey, celebrates this remarkable accomplishment. The tunnel is probably the only biblical site that has not changed its appearance in 2,700 years.

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