Answering Children's Questions as Old Earth Creationists
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I don't think it is possible to give a rigid proof of any event of the past. All we have are present realities, including histories which were written by fallible human beings.
There are various ways of interpreting present realities (fossils, the grand canyon, etc.) and histories contradict one another, depending on the historians' views.
There are various ways of interpreting present realities (fossils, the grand canyon, etc.) and histories contradict one another, depending on the historians' views.
Paidion
Man judges a person by his past deeds, and administers penalties for his wrongdoing. God judges a person by his present character, and disciplines him that he may become righteous.
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Man judges a person by his past deeds, and administers penalties for his wrongdoing. God judges a person by his present character, and disciplines him that he may become righteous.
Avatar shows me at 75 years old. I am now 83.
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So the fact that I exist, is not rigid proof that I was ever actually born?
The OP mentioned that he was an Old Earth Creationist. I am of that camp.
The OP mentioned that he was an Old Earth Creationist. I am of that camp.
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Re: Answering Children's Questions as Old Earth Creationists
No. You may have been dropped into your family by a stork.So the fact that I exist, is not rigid proof that I was ever actually born?
Paidion
Man judges a person by his past deeds, and administers penalties for his wrongdoing. God judges a person by his present character, and disciplines him that he may become righteous.
Avatar shows me at 75 years old. I am now 83.
Man judges a person by his past deeds, and administers penalties for his wrongdoing. God judges a person by his present character, and disciplines him that he may become righteous.
Avatar shows me at 75 years old. I am now 83.
Re: Answering Children's Questions as Old Earth Creationists
I believe that God created earth, the universe, and everything that is or was or ever will be, and that He did it in 7 literal days. However, I look at Genesis as a book of why, not how.
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While resting out on the lounge recently I received a nasty reminder of creative design. Eyes closed, minding my own business, a yellow jacket delivered a painful sting to my wrist. Now that lets you wonder how his ancestors designed and developed over long periods of time the injection delivery system while, simultaneously, coming up with the poison to inject, neither of which would be of any use without the other. Just happened by blind chance, they say.
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And he dies afterwards. Not conducive to natural selection if you ask me.
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[quote="dizerner"]Bees die, not yellow jackets, because part of their abdomen is broken off./quote]
Yes. Quite right. But as to bees.....
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Well, to be fair, it wouldn't affect natural selection, because the only honeybees with barbed stingers (which is what makes it rip out of their abdomen, killing them, when they use it) are the workers, which don't reproduce. The queen is the only female that reproduces, and her stinger isn't barbed, so stinging doesn't kill her. By the way, only the females have stingers, for whatever that's worth.darinhouston wrote:Yes. Quite right. But as to bees.....dizerner wrote:Bees die, not yellow jackets, because part of their abdomen is broken off.
Getting back to your original question, you may be aware that Reasons To Believe has some kids' materials. I can't vouch for them, as I've never seen them, but everything else they put out is top-notch.