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royol said:(This may have already been covered but I haven't seen it)
Have any of the Creationist come up with an explanation for Oil and Coal yet?
ChrisP said:Pretty Blue; according to scientists everywhere it would take millions of years of incredibly large pockets of decaying matter to make the two... but that's assuming Creationists all believe in a young earth... which looking around here, most don't.
Basically a presumptuous thread.
I agree Linus. If someone were to believe in diving omnipotence/omniscience etc etc then anything is possible.Linus said:The debate of young earth vs. old earth has been going on in my head for a while now. But I always ask myself, "couldn't have God created the world young with coal and oil already in the earth at the start?"
Well, couldn't He?
Linus said:The debate of young earth vs. old earth has been going on in my head for a while now. But I always ask myself, "couldn't have God created the world young with coal and oil already in the earth at the start?"
Well, couldn't He?
Linus said:The debate of young earth vs. old earth has been going on in my head for a while now. But I always ask myself, "couldn't have God created the world young with coal and oil already in the earth at the start?"
Well, couldn't He?
Well, this is why people keep coming back to Religious Forums...to ask questions and ponder other people's perspectives. If you are willing to keep an open mind, you just might learn something from the posts here.royol said:Well would you believe it, I did not think of that, that answer is the answer everyone has been searching for it explains everything, God made it like that...
royol said:So God rested for millions of years as well or was that billions or trillions, thinking like that will give you whatever answer you choose to need, you can believe what you like, think what you like and have a wonderful time, you are able to give yourself the answers, even before you have the questions, perfect thinking, that sounds like the religion for me, what'
royol said:So God rested for millions of years as well or was that billions or trillions, thinking like that will give you whatever answer you choose to need, you can believe what you like, think what you like and have a wonderful time, you are able to give yourself the answers, even before you have the questions, perfect thinking, that sounds like the religion for me, what's it called? "The disiples of the make it up as you go along brigade."
Yep, that's the beauty of itroyol said:It could have been however long you want it to be, as I say, whatever you need it to be.
Are you guys dragging me into this again???ChrisP said:If someone were to believe in diving omnipotence/omniscience etc etc then anything is possible.
That being said, I don't think the fossil record was created as some sort of giant hoax by God: he is above that. This is obviously an area for further thought and investigation. The scriptures have not spoken about it, so it must be up to us to figure it out the best we can.
There are a number of theories out that coal and oil do not require eons to form. During the flood there would have been large masses of vegetation under tremendous pressure collected in numerous places.