God created the world in 7 days? or Big Bang?

[Ethel mermania]

7 of his days are probably not the same as 7 of our days. Perhaps it took thousands of years for him to create the world. It is not easy to create such a diverse and awesome project as earth.

I think if he gave it another 1-2 'days' it could have turned out better. He should have made the oceans freshwater and there is no need for deserts that are extremely awful and harsh (like Sahara and Gobi) but deserts like the Sonoran which have a decent amount of life are fine in limited quantities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert

Creating harsh mountains also goes too far. Nothing should have been made higher than 4,000 meters.

Also, certain creatures like ticks and mosquitos seem to have been made without much thought as to their negative qualities.

God should have taken 9-10 days, things would have turned out better.

i blame the bid speciifications. the old adage is true, you get what you pay for.

[Lost Memories]

7 of his days are probably not the same as 7 of our days. Perhaps it took thousands of years for him to create the world. It is not easy to create such a diverse and awesome project as earth.

I think if he gave it another 1-2 'days' it could have turned out better. He should have made the oceans freshwater and there is no need for deserts that are extremely awful and harsh (like Sahara and Gobi) but deserts like the Sonoran which have a decent amount of life are fine in limited quantities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert

Creating harsh mountains also goes too far. Nothing should have been made higher than 4,000 meters.

Also, certain creatures like ticks and mosquitos seem to have been made without much thought as to their negative qualities.

God should have taken 9-10 days, things would have turned out better.

The story about humans not living in eden may have its metaphoric meaning about what you said.

[Dremono]

Lots of people disagree on wheter or not god created the world or the big bang.Personally I am more of a Big bang guy because I am abnostic but must religious people depending on their on their religion belive their gods created the world and not the big bang.There is not a lot to prove that the big bang happened ot that gos existed exept the bible wich is not really a reliable source.

so God created the world in 7 days or did the bigbang happened?

Yes, I am abnostic, too.

[Great Nepal]

7 of his days are probably not the same as 7 of our days. Perhaps it took thousands of years for him to create the world. It is not easy to create such a diverse and awesome project as earth.

I think if he gave it another 1-2 'days' it could have turned out better. He should have made the oceans freshwater and there is no need for deserts that are extremely awful and harsh (like Sahara and Gobi) but deserts like the Sonoran which have a decent amount of life are fine in limited quantities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert

Creating harsh mountains also goes too far. Nothing should have been made higher than 4,000 meters.

Also, certain creatures like ticks and mosquitos seem to have been made without much thought as to their negative qualities.

God should have taken 9-10 days, things would have turned out better.

I thought god was all-powerful and all knowing? Why did it take him billions of years rather than seconds? Oh and why did he cock up so much unless he was too busy in bed?

[Tsuntion]

Lots of people disagree on wheter or not god created the world or the big bang.Personally I am more of a Big bang guy because I am abnostic but must religious people depending on their on their religion belive their gods created the world and not the big bang.There is not a lot to prove that the big bang happened ot that gos existed exept the bible wich is not really a reliable source.

so God created the world in 7 days or did the bigbang happened?

Yes, I am abnostic, too. :palm:

Is there any real use to picking on typos when the meaning is clear and unchanged?

[Freiheit Reich]

7 of his days are probably not the same as 7 of our days. Perhaps it took thousands of years for him to create the world. It is not easy to create such a diverse and awesome project as earth.

I think if he gave it another 1-2 'days' it could have turned out better. He should have made the oceans freshwater and there is no need for deserts that are extremely awful and harsh (like Sahara and Gobi) but deserts like the Sonoran which have a decent amount of life are fine in limited quantities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert

Creating harsh mountains also goes too far. Nothing should have been made higher than 4,000 meters.

Also, certain creatures like ticks and mosquitos seem to have been made without much thought as to their negative qualities.

God should have taken 9-10 days, things would have turned out better.

I thought god was all-powerful and all knowing? Why did it take him billions of years rather than seconds? Oh and why did he cock up so much unless he was too busy in bed?

I honestly don't know if he can tell the future (many say he can). I really don't believe this though. He can guess better than us due to knowing what is going on everywhere but I don't think he knows 100%, it would be boring for him if he knew everything.

Ideas take time for all geniuses, I assume Monet took more than 2 minutes to paint his pictures and Beethoven probably took many minutes to create his symphonies. Give God a break, he created the world and has power but it takes time.

[Great Nepal]

I honestly don't know if he can tell the future (many say he can). I really don't believe this though. He can guess better than us due to knowing what is going on everywhere but I don't think he knows 100%, it would be boring for him if he knew everything.

So, it can not be any gods from abrahamic religions at very least, since they all (to my knowledge) claim God to be omniscient.

Ideas take time for all geniuses, I assume Monet took more than 2 minutes to paint his pictures and Beethoven probably took many minutes to create his symphonies. Give God a break, he created the world and has power but it takes time.

We aren't talking about genius. We are talking about omnipotent and omniscient being (atleast for abrahamic religions). If you know everything there is to know and can do everything there is to do, then you should do damn perfect job.

[Brickistan]

I thought god was all-powerful and all knowing? Why did it take him billions of years rather than seconds? Oh and why did he cock up so much unless he was too busy in bed?

I honestly don't know if he can tell the future (many say he can). I really don't believe this though. He can guess better than us due to knowing what is going on everywhere but I don't think he knows 100%, it would be boring for him if he knew everything.

Ideas take time for all geniuses, I assume Monet took more than 2 minutes to paint his pictures and Beethoven probably took many minutes to create his symphonies. Give God a break, he created the world and has power but it takes time.

So what you're saying is that God isn't really all-powerful as he's constrained by such things as time and his own intellect? In that case, why call him God?

[Samuraikoku]

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state...

[Xanixi]

Poll should say "Big Bang", not "bigbang".

And I go with the Big Bang.

Also:

Can God Create a Mountain He Can't Move?

Then He can't move it, thus not being capable of doing everything. If he can't even move a mountain, how am I to imagine he can create the universe?

Then He can't make a mountain he can't move, thus not being capable of doing everything. If He can't even make an immovable mountain, how am I to imagine he can create the universe?

[Dumb Ideologies]

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state...

Samu-san, I don't think you can fit the universe in Texas.

[Samuraikoku]

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state...

Samu-san, I don't think you can fit the universe in Texas.

Everything's bigger in Texas. Even the universe.

[Immoren]

Creation of the World is explained here in clear text. *nods*

[Farnhamia]

7 of his days are probably not the same as 7 of our days. Perhaps it took thousands of years for him to create the world. It is not easy to create such a diverse and awesome project as earth.

I think if he gave it another 1-2 'days' it could have turned out better. He should have made the oceans freshwater and there is no need for deserts that are extremely awful and harsh (like Sahara and Gobi) but deserts like the Sonoran which have a decent amount of life are fine in limited quantities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert

Creating harsh mountains also goes too far. Nothing should have been made higher than 4,000 meters.

Also, certain creatures like ticks and mosquitos seem to have been made without much thought as to their negative qualities.

God should have taken 9-10 days, things would have turned out better.

i blame the bid speciifications. the old adage is true, you get what you pay for.

You can have it good, fast or cheap. Pick two.

[Ethel mermania]

i blame the bid speciifications. the old adage is true, you get what you pay for.

You can have it good, fast or cheap. Pick two.

you have no idea how much i use that phrase irl

[Copenhagen Metropolis]

I thought god was all-powerful and all knowing? Why did it take him billions of years rather than seconds? Oh and why did he cock up so much unless he was too busy in bed?

I honestly don't know if he can tell the future (many say he can). I really don't believe this though. He can guess better than us due to knowing what is going on everywhere but I don't think he knows 100%, it would be boring for him if he knew everything.

Ideas take time for all geniuses, I assume Monet took more than 2 minutes to paint his pictures and Beethoven probably took many minutes to create his symphonies. Give God a break, he created the world and has power but it takes time.

lol

[Farnhamia]

You can have it good, fast or cheap. Pick two.

you have no idea how much i use that phrase irl

I bet it's on a par with how often I do.

[United Republics of Aralon]

There's a ton of evidence for the Big Bang.

Well I don't remember it. Do you?

The expansion of the universe? Redshift? Cosmic background radiation? Enthropy? These are just a few.
It is entirely possible that a god created the universe, but there was a big bang, intelligent creation or not.

[Blouman Empire]

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[The Victorian Empire]

Here's an idea:

God created the Big Bang, which created the world in 7 days.

There, no everyone's happy.

[Blouman Empire]

Here's an idea:

God created the Big Bang, which created the world in 7 days.

There, no everyone's happy.

What about those that don't take the creation story literally?

[Pharthan]

The "Seven Day" Theory is often regarded by Biblical Scholars and Theists as being an inaccurate term. Original texts do not have a very literal meaning of "day," the best we can find merely means "set period of time." Actual timeframe of this "set period of time," is either unknown or very vague. Someone, somewhere along the line, just picked the word "day" because it was what seemed accurate at the time.

In truth, it could have seven-million, billion, or trillion years. Without anything to truly judge time by, it matters little what scale you perform things on.
The most educated biblical scholars make allotments for new facts, like true scientists - and laugh in the face of people who just make up theories for their own benefit, like true scientists...
... And like true scientists, many hold the "We weren't there to see it, so we'll never really know until someone that was there tells us."

[Frisivisia]

:ugeek: The "Seven Day" Theory is often regarded by Biblical Scholars and Theists as being an inaccurate term. Original texts do not have a very literal meaning of "day," the best we can find merely means "set period of time." Actual timeframe of this "set period of time," is either unknown or very vague. Someone, somewhere along the line, just picked the word "day" because it was what seemed accurate at the time.

In truth, it could have seven-million, billion, or trillion years. Without anything to truly judge time by, it matters little what scale you perform things on.
The most educated biblical scholars make allotments for new facts, like true scientists - and laugh in the face of people who just make up theories for their own benefit, like true scientists...
... And like true scientists, many hold the "We weren't there to see it, so we'll never really know until someone that was there tells us."

It's not "we weren't there to see it", it's "there's no proof". We weren't there to see the creation of earth, but we know how it formed from star stuff.

[Immoren]

:ugeek: The "Seven Day" Theory is often regarded by Biblical Scholars and Theists as being an inaccurate term. Original texts do not have a very literal meaning of "day," the best we can find merely means "set period of time." Actual timeframe of this "set period of time," is either unknown or very vague. Someone, somewhere along the line, just picked the word "day" because it was what seemed accurate at the time.

In truth, it could have seven-million, billion, or trillion years. Without anything to truly judge time by, it matters little what scale you perform things on.
The most educated biblical scholars make allotments for new facts, like true scientists - and laugh in the face of people who just make up theories for their own benefit, like true scientists...
... And like true scientists, many hold the "We weren't there to see it, so we'll never really know until someone that was there tells us."

What "theories"? I think "hypothesis" might be better word. Even then word choice wouldn't probably be fitting.

[Azurand]

God created the World through Big Bang.