Originally Posted By: Tiles

When you, as a scientist, having a ton of proofs for evolution, having proofs for the age of the earth, have facts over facts, stuff that NOBODY is able to DISPROOF, and then comes a creationist and says that is all wrong, because he BELIEVES the earth is just a few thousand years old because an old book is saying so, would you discuss?


There are some things about evolution which are like you say - provable, and contrary to the Bible's teachings. However when it comes down to some of the most important areas, like how life actually began, evolutionists still admit that they don't know. This is where Intelligent Design comes in. Let me repeat that the idea of Intelligent Design is different than Creationism. Intellignet Design does not mean that evolution didn't happen, it's simply an alternate explaination of HOW evolution happened.

On your other point, unfortunatly entire villages of people do burn down in this world. If we believe in God, we have to accept that God allows suffering to happen, and it's really not hard to understand. Suffering is part of life, a part we would probably prefer to do without, but part nonetheless. Suffering actually has a very useful purpose, the pain of touching a fire is no fun, but without it, you might not notice your hand burning off. So for a believer, suffering is just a tool which God uses to teach us about the consequences of our actions. If horrible things can happen in this world, and this world was created by God, then horrible things could also happen in the next world too.

Or we can choose not to believe in God. Either way we will find out the truth when we die...