Quote Originally Posted by VanChilds
Bilbo when you call yourself a creationist does that mean a complete literal interpretation of Genisis and the biblical age of the world?
Hey vanchilds,

Actually I do and I came about that belief only through an exhaustive sift through literally hundreds of books and documents.

I believe the present geological strata and thus the earth history has to be interperated in the light of a world wide cataclysmic flood. The evidence for such an event is everywhere, the evolutionists themselves identify it but their philosophical adherance to a millions of years lifespan of the earth forces them to evaluate that evidence differently.

Thus whereas I see evidence for one absolutely catastrophic even that shaped the earth as we see it, an evolutionist sees several such events.

It is interesting that evolutionists also agree in a mass extinction. The worst one they call the PT or Permian-Triassic extinction where they believe 97% of all life on earth was wiped out! Kind of similar to the Noahic Flood event in terms of devestation.

The bible says all of mankind is descended from a single woman Eve, science has been forced to reluctantly agree, mitochondrial DND tracing back to a single female, although again their evolutionary interperatation puts her at around 1 -4 million years ago.

The bible says Adam was made of the dust of the earth, a statement now known to be chemically and biologically true.

As regards to the post flood world do you realise the evolutionary community has yet to properly explain the reason for the ice age? I won't bore you now with the mechanics of it but basically the best model to predict how a world wide ice age could have come into being is for there to have been a world wide flood.

Also civilisations only go back some 6000 or so years, to roughly just after the time the bible says 8 people got off an ark. Cvilisations began in the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia and slowly spread out. The bible again says that this was the location that man began to rebuild cities.

Another interesting event occured here and that is the building of the tower of Babel. It is said in the bible that God then confounded the people changing their languages so they no longer understood one another forcing them to disperse over the world. This would explain why other civilisations sprung up around the world shortly after this time.

Interestingly after the flood Noah was ordered by God to sacrifice a number of animals as an atonement. This ritual has been carried on by every ancient civilisation. Wherever a civilisation occurs, even in the Americas archaeologists have found that a system of ritual sacrifce had been practiced.

This world wide early religious ritual is incredibely hard to explain as how and why did all these civilisations, completely unrelated and unaware of each other all introduce a sacrificial rite? It's very difficult to come up with a theory that does not involve some sort of shared cultural heritage. The bible is the only ancient source that describe the reason for the institution of sacrifice.

Also interestingly if the flood really was a global event and everybody who is alive on earth now is descended from people who got off the ark you would expect people around the world to have a memory of it right? Well it may suprise you but virtually every ancient culture from the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Europeans even the Australian aboriginees and native American Indians have or had a flood story, where God or the Gods punished mankind by flooding the earth. Many cultures unrelated to the bible even have the story of a man building a boat and surviving, exactly what you would expect if it actually occured.

Furthermore the measurments of the boat are given precisely in the bible. The boat's length, width and height are all contained in the bible and many models have been built.

It is a fact that in countless tests this boat has been impossible to tip over even under the harshest simulated waves. It has been noted by expert boat builders that the sizes given in the bible are exactly the right dimensions for a boat to be able to survive a raging tempest. That in itself is really worth looking up as it is unbeliveable how a few of ancient illiterates could have come up with the exact dimensions!

These are a just a few reasons why I do believe the biblical model, There are many many more but my fingers are hurting from all this typing and I need a rest, lol.

But I do seriously urge people to look into this stuff. There is no subject more fascinating than our own origins after all