Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
Essentially, people accept the bible on faith.
The Jewish interpretation of why the bible (at least the portion that is shared between Judaism and Christianity) doesn't mention things like dinosaurs or the Big Bang is because even though the bible is "the word of G-d" it had to be written down by people and thus put into terms they would understand. I mean 2000 to 4000 years ago humans didn't exactly have an understanding of paleontology or physics.
Another theory which this Jewish physicist guy actually presents a lot of mathematical evidence for is that since G-d is a being external to the universe, the rate at which it was/is expanding called the theory of relativity into play and that would make the period of time in which the original stuff mentioned in the bible happened look like only a week to an external observer.
My observations of Christianity is that it tends to put a lot more into adherence to the actual words in the bible regardless of science, instead of trying to reconcile the two.
ok, i think i understand now. Basically god would be on an entirely seperate energy level than the rest of the universe, despite the bible saying he created everything and so and and so forth?
Oh Another thing... Adam and Eve... If it only started with two people, that god created, how did the rest of the world come about? Did god create more people to populate or are we all a product of biblical incest? thats another thing that I really didn't understand.. but i think i understand the dinasaur/cavemen thing