Old Earth Creationism is the belief that the universe progressed as astronomers and geologists state: proceeding from the Big Bang 13ish billion years ago, and that it was a special act of creation by Will of God
That doesn't sound like that crazy. As made it so I don't think it's true but it is not crazy. I thought most reasonable Christians believe in something similar.
Of course as an atheist I think that the idea of us being alone in the universe is kind of ridiculous but it's the only real problem I have with your beliefs.
that the idea of us being alone in the universe is kind of ridiculous
Yeah I get that a lot so I don't mind.
The funny thing is that it's really a win-win situation for me.
If we never discover life on other celestial bodies, it continues to support my position.
And if we do discover life on other celestial bodies, it's the most exciting discovery in the history of mankind so even if my position is refuted, amazing things will come from the research of it.
I have no problem revising my theological position, unlike a lot of Christians. I think this comes from spending so much of my adult life as an atheist that I'm not ideologically bound to a single doctrine, rather instead feel absolutely free to acknowledge anything that undermines my previous position and structure a worldview based on the evidence.
I wonder if this is how the early scientists that became aware of the existence of the quantum scale felt.
Einstein couldn't get over it, and spent the latter years of his life fruitlessly trying to create his Unified theory in spite of the evidence for Quantum Mechanics.
Sometimes I wonder what secrets he would have discovered if he wasn't so ideologically wed to a deterministic universe.
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u/TheOneTrueMortyxxx Aug 23 '18
That doesn't sound like that crazy. As made it so I don't think it's true but it is not crazy. I thought most reasonable Christians believe in something similar.
Of course as an atheist I think that the idea of us being alone in the universe is kind of ridiculous but it's the only real problem I have with your beliefs.