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It's as rational to believe that the earth is flat and that the sun orbits the earth (as the bible suggests ) as it is to believe that evolution is not an established fact . There is a ton of multidiciplinary scientific evidence in support of evolution and essentially nothing to refute evolution .


A couple points.

I too have read the bible, hmm, atleast 10 times, and never in the bible does it say that the earth is flat, or the sun comment. In fact if you want to know what the bible says about it...here you go, direct from the bible, you can look it up yourself. This is worth reading but I've bolded the more important parts

In the eighth century B.C.E., when the prevailing view was that the earth was flat, centuries before Greek philosophers theorized that the earth likely was spherical, and thousands of years before humans saw the earth as a globe from space, the Hebrew prophet Isaiah stated with remarkable simplicity: “There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth.” (Isaiah 40:22) The Hebrew word chugh, here translated “circle,” may also be rendered “sphere.”3 Other Bible translations read, “the globe of the earth” (Douay Version) and “the round earth.”—Moffatt.

The Bible writer Isaiah avoided the common myths about the earth. Instead, he penned a statement that was not threatened by the advances of scientific discovery.

What Holds Up the Earth?

In ancient times, humans were perplexed by other questions about the cosmos: What is the earth resting on? What holds up the sun, the moon, and the stars? They had no knowledge of the law of universal gravitation, formulated by Isaac Newton and published in 1687. The idea that heavenly bodies are, in effect, suspended in empty space upon nothing was unknown to them. Thus, their explanations often suggested that tangible objects or substances held the earth and other heavenly bodies aloft.

For example, one ancient theory, perhaps originated by people who lived on an island, was that the earth was surrounded by water and that it floated in these waters. The Hindus conceived that the earth had several foundations, one on top of the other. It rested on four elephants, the elephants stood on an enormous tortoise, the tortoise stood on an immense serpent, and the coiled serpent floated on universal waters. Empedocles, a Greek philosopher of the fifth century B.C.E., believed that the earth rested upon a whirlwind and that this whirlwind was the cause of the motion of the heavenly bodies.

Among the most influential views were those of Aristotle. Although he theorized that the earth is a sphere, he denied that it could ever hang in empty space. In his treatise On the Heavens, when refuting the notion that the earth rests on water, he said: “It is not the nature of water, any more than of earth, to stay in mid-air: it must have something to rest upon.”4 So, what does the earth “rest upon”? Aristotle taught that the sun, the moon, and the stars were attached to the surface of solid, transparent spheres. Sphere lay nestled within sphere, with the earth—immobile—at the center. As the spheres revolved within one another, the objects on them—the sun, the moon, and the planets—moved across the sky.

Aristotle’s explanation seemed logical. If the heavenly bodies were not firmly attached to something, how else could they stay aloft? The views of the revered Aristotle were accepted as fact for some 2,000 years. According to The New Encyclopædia Britannica, in the 16th and 17th centuries his teachings “ascended to the status of religious dogma” in the eyes of the church.5

With the invention of the telescope, astronomers began to question Aristotle’s theory. Still, the answer eluded them until Sir Isaac Newton explained that the planets are suspended in empty space, held in their orbits by an invisible force—gravity. It seemed incredible, and some of Newton’s colleagues found it hard to believe that space could be a void, largely empty of substance.6

What does the Bible have to say on this question? Nearly 3,500 years ago, the Bible stated with extraordinary clarity that the earth is hanging “upon nothing.” (Job 26:7) In the original Hebrew, the word for “nothing” (beli-mah′) used here literally means “without anything.”7 The Contemporary English Version uses the expression, “on empty space.”

The bible also never states that the earth is 6000 years old. It's another common phrase used by evolutionists that is completely incorrect, yet it continues to be used, hopefull after today you will understand and stop using it. It simply says, in the beginning, god created Heaven and earth. The "6 days" of creation occured after that. There is no timeline given as to when the earth was made, in fact, it says it was made about the same time as "the heavens" which would be quite long ago.

I don't understand your comment that there is no evidence to refute evolution...I have given you a couple of examples above that bring questions to my mind...for which I have never been provided with a satisfactory answer from an evolutionist point of view. Here they are again...

[i][Where did the laws of the universe come from? According to the big bang theory they seem to propose that complete order and harmony came from Chaos. Which is not a rational conclusion IMO.

Who wrote DNA code? You seem to be educated a bit on the matter, so I'm sure you understand that the DNA carries written (inscribed if you will) instructions that are read, understood and acted on by the cell. Thousands and thousancds of pages if written out, of detailed instructions. To me it would seem that you could take a gugleplex of years and such intelligence is not going to form on its own without intelligent guidance.

Where are the half man half monkeys? The answer I've always gotten from this doesn't make sense. Evolution is a slow process, that has taken billions of years theoretically. It's so slow you can't see it happening, but we should not all be at exactly the same point. We should see many of the Geico cavemen around. Or monkeys much closer to the human race than they are. I've gotten reponses about some people being born with a tale as being a throwback, however, some people are born with two heads, 3 hands, 6 fingers, its just an abnomality. We should see variations of our own race, in descending steps towards our anscestors but we don't. The answer I have gotten for this is that this step of evolution occured so quickly it left a gap, which doesn't make sense to me.

Why did we develop so much brainpower that we don't use?

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Here is an additional mindblower. The feather, has never adapted. The earliest known fossil of a feather (220,000,000 years ago) shows that it is indistiquishable from a modern day feather. Scientists previously thought, (and falsely) that feathers (and birds with feathers) evolved with the dinosaur species. However, these fossils date back to the earliest dinosaurs, and the feather is perfectly designed for flight, and no different than a feather of a bird today. Since adaptation for survival is the fundamental prerequisite for evolution, scientists are baffled as to how the feather was perfectly formed with one of the first species of animals known to live on the earth.