But is the scientist work legitimate Bob? That's all I care about. Some scientist may be atheist but all that means is it's just not their time to understand yet.
I know you don't watch our YouTube videos much but please watch this 10 minute video about the church and science: https://youtu.be/C0P-HimM4Ko
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Hi Dennis and thanks for the lead to the video.
I have difficulty hearing the spoken word as related in the video, but I will study the issues further.
I agree that people do not become believers just because they have intelligence or extensive education.
Everyone who is called is called by the Father to understand, each in their own time.
I think that reservation also applies to theologians, ministers and priests as well.
God reveals knowledge to whomever He pleases and withholds understanding from the great majority of us, even especially the better educated in the worlds ways.
I have only one comment about what Ray shared with us and that is that I cannot limit God to needing time in order to create anything.
When our Lord Christ Jesus healed the lame man the man leapt up and ran about praising God.
When Jesus called out to Lazarus in the tomb, the dead man came out completely healed and whole.
Lazarus did not need to recover gradually in the manner of one of us who is ill with pneumonia or cancer etc.
When God created the first man and woman they were complete and able to function in their full strength. They were not developed from a seed that grew and matured.
It seems to me to follow a pattern that when God decided to put a great light in the heavens to serve the earth's inhabitants he did it instantly. It was needed so God called it into existence and it was done. Not in the way our gnosis would imagine that it may have been done.
When God (Elohim) created animal and plant life that were codependent and symbiotic and needed to exist together in order to survive in the earth's environment it had to be done the same day or at least within the time period that would sustain life for that season. Flowers need bees to pollinate. Bees need nectar to reproduce the next generation.
Suffice it to say that God made a plan and then worked His plan and it was perfect from the instant that God had the thought to create it. It was not an experiment with trial and error and hoping for a good result.
Just my view of how things may have been done.
Bob