Different Christians Views of Creation

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believe that the earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old, but if the age of the earth is calculated through the Bible, then the earth would add up to be only 6000 years old. This discrepancy further makes critics believe that Bible is inaccurate or untrue. Lastly the Bible says that God created everything on earth in six days but the scientific community believes that the universe itself was created through an event known as the Big Bang and that life on Earth was an accident and we evolved from simple bacteria. However, there is a logical explanation for all of this that allows for the Bible and the scientific community to both be right.
Many skeptics that do not believe in the Bible’s creation account because the Bible does not account for the fossils of the dinosaurs and other creatures that used to live on earth. First it is important to understand that the purpose of the creation account is not to tell of how God created the world but to tell people about God through ...

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is not a 24-hour day as we know it, but a day was actually a lot longer period of time like in 2 Peter 3:8 where it describes a day to be a thousand years or a thousand years being only a day to God. Lastly it is possible that God only issued the creation of everything in the first six days, but the process of creation actually extended much longer. All these views help support the relationship between the creation account in the Bible and scientific beliefs.
Lastly is the problem that many scientists believe that the universe was created through an event known as the Big Bang and that all life on earth was created by accident and evolved from simple bacteria into complex organisms like ...

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