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Top: Society: Religion_and_Spirituality: Christianity: Perspectives: Origins_and_Creation: Old_Earth_Views
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People often get confused with this category and the evolution category. In this category do not submit sites that do not believe in a Creator. This category is for sites with a Christian point of view.
If your site is not about a Christian viewpoint, you should consider submitting it to Science/Physics/Cosmology,Science/Biology/Evolution, or a related category. |
This category is for sites that promote the view that God created the universe, but that it occurred or began not merely 6,000 to 10,000 years ago, but millions or billions of years ago.Some arguments are based on the evidence for "design" in nature. Other arguments propose a "gap" between verses in Genesis which allow for an old age for the original material of this earth. Others suggest that the days of Genesis were actually long ages of time.
This theory is based on the second verse of Genesis 1, where the Bible states that the planet Earth was already here before the creative process of the seven days even began. This view allows the billions of years of development of the universe to occur before the seven days of creation described later in Genesis.
| Please submit only sites which focus on why the Old Earth View is wrong here. Sites which put forth an alternative viewpoint are probably better submitted to a related category. |
This category is for sites which specifically oppose the old earth view and focus more on why the old earth view is wrong or a specific old earth theory, model, or argument is wrong than on explaining an alternative point of view. Many other sites which express an opposing view will be found in the New Earth View category.
The most well known proponent of progressive creationism is Hugh Ross who is a PhD astronomer (from Toronto University) and a progressive creationist. He regards the Big Bang as the act of divine creation, and the fossil record as indicative of successive creations of species by God. This theory is sometime called day/age creationism since each day of Genesis 1 corresponds to a long period of time(thousands or millions of years.)
Advocates of theistic evolution, or evolving creation as it is sometimes called, believe that God used an evolutionary process to create forms of life and to bring them to their present stage of development. Some who hold to this view would propose that God intervened in the process at some crucial points, usually (1) the creation of matter at the beginning (the big bang?), (2) the creation of the simplest life form, and (3) the creation of man. But with the possible exception of these points of intervention, theistic evolutionists hold that evolution proceeded in the ways now discovered by natural scientists, and that it was the process that God used in allowing all the other forms of life on earth to develop.
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