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As you meet more Christians you will find more variation in what they believe. All should consider themselves "Creationist", but there are MANY competing ideas

As you meet more Christians you will find more variation in what they believe. All should consider themselves "Creationist", but there are MANY competing ideas, from Ken Ham "5000 years old or bust", to Catholic "could be billions of years", and a lot of version in between. For instance, a friend of mine is a biology professor at the local university, his PHD is in fish evolution, and is a very conservative Christian.

Canadauni 8y ago
Francis Collins is a well documented example of a Christian who very much contrasts Ken Ham as the current head of the NIH and director of the Human Genome Project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins
- jhawk28 8y ago
  It comes down to what you hold to be true. If you believe Genesis is historical fact, then the interpretation of the science facts are wrong. If you believe the Bible is true and that the interpretation of science facts are true, then you see Genesis in a figurative interpretation. If you reject the Bible, then you will see the narrative of the Bible as false and the scientific interpretation as true.
tessierashpool 8y ago
you kind of need to follow your own advice there. "all should consider themselves Creationist" would be considered pretty silly, or at least absolutely debatable, in the church I grew up in (a very unremarkable suburban Presbyterianism). the Bible itself contains two contradictory creation stories. I think the overwhelming majority of Christians fit into the "the two mutually contradictory creation stories in Genesis could not be taken literally even if they didn't contradict each other" camp that I'm most familiar with, or, at most, are nearer the "could be billions of years" end of your spectrum. edit: after a little Googling, it looks like 51% of US Christians accept a "but it was God's idea" version of evolution, i.e., evolution is how it works, God set evolution in motion. and we probably all know that the US is the only technologically advanced nation with such a high percentage of evolution skeptics. but if it's about all Christians, worldwide, evolution skeptics could be the majority, given that technologically non-advanced countries may contain the majority of the world's Christians.

Canadauni 8y ago

Francis Collins is a well documented example of a Christian who very much contrasts Ken Ham as the current head of the NIH and director of the Human Genome Project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins

jhawk28 8y ago
It comes down to what you hold to be true. If you believe Genesis is historical fact, then the interpretation of the science facts are wrong. If you believe the Bible is true and that the interpretation of science facts are true, then you see Genesis in a figurative interpretation. If you reject the Bible, then you will see the narrative of the Bible as false and the scientific interpretation as true.

tessierashpool 8y ago

you kind of need to follow your own advice there. "all should consider themselves Creationist" would be considered pretty silly, or at least absolutely debatable, in the church I grew up in (a very unremarkable suburban Presbyterianism). the Bible itself contains two contradictory creation stories. I think the overwhelming majority of Christians fit into the "the two mutually contradictory creation stories in Genesis could not be taken literally even if they didn't contradict each other" camp that I'm most familiar with, or, at most, are nearer the "could be billions of years" end of your spectrum. edit: after a little Googling, it looks like 51% of US Christians accept a "but it was God's idea" version of evolution, i.e., evolution is how it works, God set evolution in motion. and we probably all know that the US is the only technologically advanced nation with such a high percentage of evolution skeptics. but if it's about all Christians, worldwide, evolution skeptics could be the majority, given that technologically non-advanced countries may contain the majority of the world's Christians.