Scientific Theory Vs. Old Earth Creationism

Throughout the ages, there has been an ongoing debate in the Christian society over how God created the world. The Bible seems to tell the creation story very clearly, but there are many different interpretations of what it actually means. There are mainly two sides to the debate: the side that says the creation story is very literal and the side wch says the creation story is metaphorical. In the past, many arguments have arose over these different topics and there have been many variations of evolution theories, many of those trying to mix God’s creation with scientific theory. As Christians, it is hard to know for sure how the Earth was truly mad because of God’s power to do anything, but all that can be done is to make an educated, Bible based guess. We know that the information we discover should come from both empirical evidence and special evidence of the Bible, which is why we cannot solely take all of our evidence from one and not the other. Evolution happens on two levels: a macro scale and a micro scale. Some theories that are widely accepted today that come from a combination of …show more content…
Young Earth Creationists believe that the universe was made in six literal days and has only existed for the past 7500 years. This does not match at all with science. Science believes and has very strong evidence, by measuring the rate of expansion of the universe, that the universe is very old, about 13.8 billion years old. It is also believed that the Earth and humans are about 4.5 billion years old. This means that God most likely made the universe over a long span of time since the literal “six day” creation story would only age them 6 days apart. For this belief, a person would have to put aside strong scientific beliefs. Also, the word day could be translated into more of an age or time span, which also supports creation being more spread