Monday, December 05, 2005

Old Earth Creationist

I love to study science and in particular the ongoing debate between scientists about the origins of our universe and how life came to be. I have been reading up on some things lately and recently I have come to believe that in my opinion the old earth creationist view seems to be the most logical and scientific. Old earth creationists DO NOT believe in evolution at all, we simply believe that the universe/earth is more than the standard 10,000 years that most creationists say they adhere to as the age of the earth. Many leading scientists, philosophers, and theologians hold this view. William Lane Craig and Hugh Ross, and may others, have provided some brilliant arguments in defending this view. There is more and more scientific evidence that not only the universe is old, but that it had a beginning. The fact that the universe appears to be so old, and that it had a beginning, is actually a huge plus for those that hold to the theory of intelligent design because of something called the Kalam Cosmological argument for the existence for God. This argument goes something like this: 1) Everything that begins to exist has a cause. 2)The universe began to exist 3)therefore, since the universe began to exist then it must have had a cause. The agnostics/atheists are scrambling and doing diligent work to try to find a "cause" that can be explained scientifically, and they say that just because you don't know a cause doesn't mean you can just explain it away by a belief in God. I cant understand how a God that is not physical could create the physical universe, but to me that is the most logical conclusion.