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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1823034" data-attributes="member: 14668">If we take the English translation King James version of the Bible as being the literal, unambiguous and final word of God, it would follow that the entire universe is less than 10,000 years old which is a violation of the most basic laws of physics in regards to the known speed of light and the distance of distant galaxies whose visible light has taken far longer than that to reach us. And that&#039;s before we even begin to talk about the dinosaurs that aren&#039;t mentioned in the bible but for whom there is an indisputable fossil record that predates mankind by millions of years.One can still believe that God made the universe and all that exists within it, and that God made humankind &quot;from the dust&quot; and gave him free will and knowledge of good and evil....which is the underlying truth of the Book of Genesis....while acknowledging the scientific processes that God used to accomplish these miracles. All it takes is an understanding of the fact that the Bible that we read today is a collection of texts written over several hundred years by different authors and subsequently translated through multiple languages. A God that gave us the capacity for reason and scientific inquiry would be appalled if we abused that capacity by closing our minds to the truth and locked ourselves into a potentially inaccurate interpretation of a collection of documents.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1823034, member: 14668"] If we take the English translation King James version of the Bible as being the literal, unambiguous and final word of God, it would follow that the entire universe is less than 10,000 years old which is a violation of the most basic laws of physics in regards to the known speed of light and the distance of distant galaxies whose visible light has taken far longer than that to reach us. And that's before we even begin to talk about the dinosaurs that aren't mentioned in the bible but for whom there is an indisputable fossil record that predates mankind by millions of years. One can still believe that God made the universe and all that exists within it, and that God made humankind "from the dust" and gave him free will and knowledge of good and evil....which is the underlying truth of the Book of Genesis....while acknowledging the scientific processes that God used to accomplish these miracles. All it takes is an understanding of the fact that the Bible that we read today is a collection of texts written over several hundred years by different authors and subsequently translated through multiple languages. A God that gave us the capacity for reason and scientific inquiry would be appalled if we abused that capacity by closing our minds to the truth and locked ourselves into a potentially inaccurate interpretation of a collection of documents. [/QUOTE]

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