The Creation of the World

So the debate rages in the office this morning over whether or not the earth was created in a literal 7 day span of time. One literalist calls anyone who says differently a "naysayer."

I'm as Baptist as they come and obviously pretty darn conservative in my worldview. Personally, I wouldn’t call such people naysayers, but questioners. I admit I’m in the questioner category myself, and when I teach the creation story to my second grade Sunday School class, I have to question whether I truly believe it’s accurate or not because it just seems mighty mythological to me and written eons after the fact during a time when stories were passed down verbally from one generation to the next.

I don’t believe it makes me a naysayer to believe that while God created the world, it MAY not have literally happened exactly as it did in Genesis over a six 24-hour day period of time. I’m not saying that I believe that it may not have happened EXACTLY that way, but it might not have too – and either way doesn’t impact my faith.

Of course, scientists have no credibility with me when they say the earth is millions of years old and we were evolved from sea sludge, especially after they try to hoax us into believing in man-made global warming. They have their own religion, and create their own “facts” to justify their own dogma. The concern I have over Christian programs that aim to prove the Genesis version of creation is they often take the same approach that scientists take – using the facts that justify their own belief systems while ignoring others.

It's fun to philosophize about though! We'll find out the absolute truth someday.