Survey about creationism

[-=Vagrant=-]

I'm doing a small survey about creationists. If you believe that God created stuff, please give a short answer to the following questions.

1. How old is the Universe?

2. How old is the Earth?

3. How old is life?

4. Was there a Flood? If there was, when?

5. Was there one Ice Age or more? When?

Thank you for your cooperation.

[red_jon]

1. The universe is 6000 years old. Fossils were planted by Satan to confuse us.

2. The Earth is also 6000 years old. Read Genesis.

3. Life is 6000 years old too. Just a couple of days less.

4. The Flood happened when Noah was around.

5. None, just the flood which killed all life on this planet bar a few people and animals.

[TheStinger]

Originally posted by red_jon
1. The universe is 6000 years old. Fossils were planted by Satan to confuse us.

2. The Earth is also 6000 years old. Read Genesis.

3. Life is 6000 years old too. Just a couple of days less.

4. The Flood happened when Noah was around.

5. None, just the flood which killed all life on this planet bar a few people and animals.

Of course it is worrying that otherwise intelligent people believe that.

[C0ckney]

oooh i can see this thread being 'fun'...

[MRT144]

if satan planted fossils why is there no mention of that in genesis? surely god cant be proved to be infallible through his own silence...

[red_jon]

Satan deleted it from Genesis, around the same time he invented other religious faiths. Like Judaism.

[Rogan Josh]

Re: Survey about creationism

Since I believe that God 'created stuff', I will answer your questions. Also, I will try and answer them off the top of my head, rather than going to look things up, since it would be a pretty pointless exercise then. (I presume this is to asses the knowledge of those who believe God 'created stuff').

1. How old is the Universe?

12-15 billion years or so

2. How old is the Earth?

4-5 billion years or so (more?)

3. How old is life?

ermm... this is a hard one. Perhaps 3-4 billion years or so?

4. Was there a Flood? If there was, when?

There have been lots of floods. Do you mean a flood which encompased the entire Earth? I know sea levels have been higher in the past, but I wouldn't think the entire Earth was covered. So that probably makes my answer No. There may have been a flood as described in the bible covering all the civilized world - I would put that at maybe 18 thousand years ago (maybe as a result of the ice-age thaw).

5. Was there one Ice Age or more? When?

I am fairly sure that there will have been more than one ice age. I gather recent research has shown the last one was around AD 1400-1900. The traditional 'ice-age' to which I presume you are refering was about 20,000 years ago I think.

[MRT144]

red_jon youre on the funny tip today...did you get some last night?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by MRT144
red_jon youre on the funny tip today...did you get some last night?

If that's what makes one funny, then I shall be a veritable laugh factory tomorrow.

OT:

Can agnostics answer, or is it obvious what we think?

[DinoDoc]

Re: Re: Survey about creationism

Originally posted by Rogan Josh
4-5 billion years or so (more?)

4.5 billion is the best estimate I've seen.

[MRT144]

boris, hush or i shall burn bright green from envy

[C0ckney]

mr_fun must get bog all then...

[red_jon]

MRT - my boyfriend is a coiupla hundred miles away, so nup.

I've just been drinking random bottles from the medicine cabinet.

[Combat Ingrid]

Re: Survey about creationism

Originally posted by -=Vagrant=-
4. Was there a Flood? If there was, when?

The Mediterranean Sea flooded the Black Sea about 7-8.000 years ago. Many believe this is the real-world event from which the flood story was born.

[MRT144]

im about to endulge in a bottle of merlot myself. its 9 am and im drinking...and i have a five olock shadom...and im half naked...

only bad can come from this