From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad:tektronix!tekmdp!jonw
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: A few questions
Article-I.D.: tekmdp.1868
Posted: Tue Mar 29 10:06:43 1983
Received: Thu Mar 31 01:18:25 1983


This newsgroup is such a great source of truth and wisdom that I thought I
might prevail upon some of the more scientific-minded biblical literalists to
answer a few questions that have long puzzled me.  If any of these questions
appear flippant, let me assure that I am interested in sincere and *succinct*
answers.

1.  If God created man in his own image, which race does he most closely
resemble?  Does he appear to be an old man or a young man?  If he looks old, 
what caused him to age?

2.  When you pray, does God actually answer in audible English?  If so, does 
he have an accent, good diction, large vocabulary, etc?

3.  How old is the earth?  If your answer is something on the order of 10K
years, how do you account for gradually-forming geological features such as 
the Grand Canyon?  If your answer to this is that God created an "old" earth, 
is there any way that we tell the difference between the erosion that God 
created and the erosion that we can observe currently happening?  Did God
scatter a few fossils about in order to confuse prideful evolutionists?

4.  Does anybody out there really believe the biblical account of Noah's ark?
If so, please explain how Noah handled the logistics of this operation. (How
did he gather the polar bears and kangaroos?  How did he build a boat large
enough to house millions of insect and animal species, not to mention their
food?  How did he dispose of the tons of manure that accumulated daily? Etc.)
Also, since it had to be continuously raining at a rate of 6 inches/min 
worldwide (to cover the highest mountain in forty days), how could anything
stay afloat?  Once the sea level had risen over 29,000 feet (world wide, of
course), where did all the water go?  Don't try to tell me that it
evaporated!

5.  Is is it reasonable that wealthy and politically powerful churches should
not pay their fair share of property and income tax?  Non-profit organizations
such as the Sierra Club have lost their tax-exempt status for becoming too
politically involved, but I have never heard of that happening to a church.

If I can get some satisfactory answers to these questions, there are plenty 
more where they came from.

						Jon White
						Tektronix
						Aloha, Ore.