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Gone are the days when
scientists were butchered or persecuted for having a view that was contrary to
that of the church. As a Christian, I thank God for the
development and persistence of science in making our world a better and more
understanding place to live in. Science to me, does not only
try to make an educated attempt to explain why things are the way they are, it
also brings me closer to God. I honestly believe that
open-minded science that is not politicized can achieve a lot in bringing world
peace, because it helps to clarify the way things are and the way things should
be.
In creation (Gen 1), God
created everything from the heavens (solar system), to the sun, gathering of
water, the land, and all creatures. Each creation was a day
apart from the other. We do not know if the right
translations from the old languages was actually a day or a million years, but I
am convinced that it was a long period of time. The creation
of God also follows the laws of succession in Biology or Ecology.
To have a natural wild life, you must first have water, then vegetation,
then creatures that feed on the vegetation, and then creatures that feed on
other creatures. Creation even does a better job by going
above the call of duty to explain how the global wide life originated.
The foundations of existence (heavens and earth) were first created, then
solar energy (sun light), then gathering of the waters for land to appear, then
vegetation on the land that needs light to produce, then water creatures and
birds that feed on water creatures and fruits, and lastly, land creatures that
feed on each other and almost everything else.
Evolution does not really
disagree with this, except for its view that one creature evolved or originated
from another, and that a “big bang” took place to set existence in motion
instead of God. This is a very honorable view from science
that should be respected. It is true that a lot of creatures
where made in one day and that others came some days later, but how long was “a
day” in our human years? Do creatures just appear in a
matter of a second or are creatures a process? For instance,
a boy says to himself in high school that his eldest son will inherit his
business, which he was starting the next year. Now, keep in
mind that no decision in the mind or spirit materializes until force in exerted
on the decision physically. That boy must first go find a
wife or in some cases a woman, have children of which maybe the third one is the
eldest son, watch him go through grade school and college, teach him the
business, and watch him take over the business at maybe 35 years of age.
Can we call this creation or evolution?
The boy created his son and
the business in the mind or spirit before they existed. The
energy and time he used to making sure that his creation materialized was the
evolution of his creation. The happiness, sadness, successes
and failures they went through in 35 years to see the creation fulfilled must
have reshaped and redefined how the created idea was accomplished.
There is no exerted force without the one exerting it to accomplish
something. Nothing is wasted on the planet and in the solar
system. To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This means
that every action or energy goes into creating something even if the result is
invincible to the human eye. So for the sun, oceans,
heavens, creatures, stars, and land to exist and move into their places, there
obviously must be a collection of forces called the “big bang”. Just like
nothing physical materializes with force without first deciding on it, so is the
fact that nothing physical exists without the force creating and displacing some chemical
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The Political & Spiritual Purpose of the
Holy Land
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When God said that the
creatures of the land should appear, it could have taken a millions years for
them to become what they are today, at least those that survived and remained
the same. How many of us are the way we were when we were
toddlers in just 30 years. Some have lost their hair; others
have gotten darker, once the tallest in the class is now one of the shortest,
and some of us have done all kinds of surgery to cure different illnesses.
Creatures created within a day, a period, or a million years could have
been created individually to reproduce their own kind. It
could also be that only a few existed to reproduce the rest within the same
period, or even some of other periods. Nobody knows for sure
because we were not there.
It is obvious that God and
nature are a system of efficient and effective multiplication.
Just as a seed bring forth a thousand of different characteristics, so
does the sins and blessing of a man goes for many generations of different
marriages. Creation and evolution should not be a political
issue or a money making ideology for the church, government, and educators.
It should be a learning requirement for all peoples, and for us to have a
better understanding of our world and of each other. |
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