Actually, before the 7 day period there is a undefined period where the spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water. And a period before that where the earth is formless and void. Neither is given any time period. Make you own conclusions.
Well, time periods aside, at the fundamental level the DNA structure is a coded structure. All evolutionary changes requires changes to this coded structure, not unlike the code that controls your computer OS or software. These structures carry information to various systems, digital or organic, and they must be precise and ordered. In the vast majority disciplines coded information structures are de facto evidences of intelligent design, i.e. the information on a written page is assumed to have a intelligent author, a car is assumed to have a human engineer, a piece of software a developer. Why make the leap of faith that the coded information in every cell of your body came about through random changes in that structure?
Actually, so called 'fundamentalist' christians aren't the only ones who claim creation of the world by God is a fact, it's just that they are willing to argue their case. Try taking your arguements into a mosque somewhere in Tehran and see how far you get before someone drags you out and stones you to death. And in the case of hindus, their religion doesn't rely on the 'truth' of the texts, which are mostly ancients stories of the thousands of dieties that are part of there religion. So one might say american christians who argue about this
A. Actually believe the Bible to be true,
B. Believe it enough to want to compare it to other beliefs. Whether they do this well is another discussion
I think most of the actual confusion has to do with a mis-reading of Genesis by 7-day creationists. There is plenty of evidence that intelligence was required to create and modify life as we know it, both from a scientific and philosophical perspective. But it helps by realizing that Genesis isn't a science text, but an anthrocentric view of a cosmic event.
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Actually, before the 7 day period there is a undefined period where the spirit of God hovered over the surface of the water. And a period before that where the earth is formless and void. Neither is given any time period. Make you own conclusions.
Well, time periods aside, at the fundamental level the DNA structure is a coded structure. All evolutionary changes requires changes to this coded structure, not unlike the code that controls your computer OS or software. These structures carry information to various systems, digital or organic, and they must be precise and ordered. In the vast majority disciplines coded information structures are de facto evidences of intelligent design, i.e. the information on a written page is assumed to have a intelligent author, a car is assumed to have a human engineer, a piece of software a developer. Why make the leap of faith that the coded information in every cell of your body came about through random changes in that structure?
Actually, so called 'fundamentalist' christians aren't the only ones who claim creation of the world by God is a fact, it's just that they are willing to argue their case. Try taking your arguements into a mosque somewhere in Tehran and see how far you get before someone drags you out and stones you to death. And in the case of hindus, their religion doesn't rely on the 'truth' of the texts, which are mostly ancients stories of the thousands of dieties that are part of there religion. So one might say american christians who argue about this A. Actually believe the Bible to be true, B. Believe it enough to want to compare it to other beliefs. Whether they do this well is another discussion
I think most of the actual confusion has to do with a mis-reading of Genesis by 7-day creationists. There is plenty of evidence that intelligence was required to create and modify life as we know it, both from a scientific and philosophical perspective. But it helps by realizing that Genesis isn't a science text, but an anthrocentric view of a cosmic event.