vsop44

I was reading an article in the globe and mail (Canada's national newspaper )about the discovery in a norvegian arctic island of the fossil of a sea monster .

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...y/Science/home

The debate below is about the article turned into a creationism vs evolutionism confrontation , with post 58 taking the prize , you can read the comments for a good laugh !

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...y/Science/home

post # 58

John newman from Anaheim, United States writes: The ignorance concerning the Bible displayed in the comments is disturbing and appalling. The Bible is God Himself, therefore I would begin to find fault somewhere else. The word in Genesis does mention that there was a preadamic age before our Adamic race. Please take a moment to read the commentaries on Genesis 1:1 thank you. It does indicate that the earth was void and waste and the Spirit hovered over the waters. A judgement of water like that of Noah had taken place before it begins with Adam's race. The dynosaur age was finished not by a meteorite but drowning in water!
Posted 06/10/06 at 1:42 AM EDT |

So according to mr J. Newman , there would have been a deluge before there was a sun to bring light and heat to this planet and the dinosaurs would have lived in the dark during their entire existence !!!!! :banghead:

jakejonesiv

This interpretaion of Genesis presumes there was a gap between Gen 1:1 (when the earth was created) and Gen 2:2 (which finds the earth in a state of chaos, which is interpreted as ruin). In between verse 1 and verse 2 all manner of things can be imagined to have occured, including pre-Adamite races of every sort, some of which may have escaped the flood and continue to exist insidiously underground to this day.

Anyway, presumably a devestating war (let's say Satan & his minions vs. God) had destroyed the earth at the end of the gap between verse 1 and 2. God then begins to reconstruct the earth with verse 3. Thus when God said, "let there be light" this was not the creation of the sun, but the clearing of the smoke and clouds associated with the destruction of the old age. It is total BS, but it gets around some of the problems of young earth creationism. I think Garner Ted Armstrong's old group (The Worldwide Church of God?) taught something like this. If not them, then somebody similar. I'm too lazy to look it up.

Jake Jones IV