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Indeed "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth"

Do you see a timeline there? A simple statement: First God created heaven and earth. THEN he did this stuff.... continue.

You prove my point, sir.

contradicting part of what you said.

and the established doctrine at the time when modern geology was born stated that the Earth was a mere 6,000 years old. Sometime in October in the afternoon. Must've pissed of the Bronze-age people not having a history.

Odd, you'd think they'd know better if their ancestors had passed down their millions of years of developmental knowledge.
It's a common misconception. I forgive you for buying into it.

I am getting rather tired of people who go around quoting the actions of pseudo-Christians as being representative of the Christian scriptures. If you want to launch criticism of Christianity, please would you base your criticisms on the scriptures and not on the actions of people pretending to be Christians. I am not interested in what "doctrine" says, because "doctrine" is not the same as the scriptures.

On the earth being the centre of the universe, this was a nonsensical Roman Catholic doctrine and unfortunately, the Roman Catholic church still preaches things that are at odds with scriptural teaching.

As for the age-of-the-earth debate, there are scientific arguments supporting both positions, but unfortunately, only the "billions" position ever gets to have its arguments represented as being mainstream. I myself am on the fence, but I don't think it makes much difference anyway: - there are many parts of the scriptures that would generate nonsensical interpretations if you interpreted them literally and if science conclusively proved (which it hasn't done yet) the young-earth creation account to be wrong, it would not challenge my faith in the slightest.

I make no apology for Christianity's opposition to homosexuality: - it is extremely arrogant for us to think we are better able than God to know the difference between good and bad. I also make no apology for the fact that Christianity prescribes different roles for men and women, although it should be noted that whilst the roles are different, we are all equal in Jesus (see Galatians 3:28). Whilst I think the Holocaust was not the best course of action, I make no apology for Christianity's opposition to Jews who haven't recognised Jesus as their lord and saviour and I make no apology for Christianity's opposition to various practices that humans think are ok, but are not according to biblical teaching. However, there is no part of the Bible I know about that expresses any opposition to blacks, innit?

I will happily believe a 2,000-year-old book. For instance, an experiment was done with different dimensions of boats and their seaworthiness and the experiments found that the boat with proportions similar to Noah's Ark were by far the most seaworthy. Obviously, nobody in biblical times would have understood about marine engineering so well.

the what?

And just because something is written doesn't make it so. Heck, I could jot something down now. Would that make what I write gospel? I'd even go so far as to call myself an apostle. Mike, the fourteenth apostle.

Trust me, I could argue with you until the cows come home. I could provide just as much evidence (yes, evidence) as you could and at the end neither of us would be any closer to changing our minds.

However, just because you don't understand the evidence or do not agree with it does not give you the right to go around insulting other people's intelligence. I have a tendency to jump to the defense of those being attacked. I apologise for engaging with you in argument.

ok.

Since when is love bad?

There's a version of a bible that says something about blacks. The King James bible. That's another thing; why so many versions and translations?

Love is not bad and is strongly advocated by Christianity. However, it is a different thing to homosexuality.

I am glad the KJV has been updated, because nobody talks like that any more. I don't see anything wrong with frequently releasing new translations as a method of continuous improvement.

Could you please give me a reference for the part about the KJV opposing blacks innit?

Don't evangelize, digger1. Nobody likes that.

How so?

Wow, something triggerd it! What wonderful evidence with no gaps at all! I'm totally convinced.
I can see why it requires more intelligence to believe in.

(more sarcasm)

I'm not a bio-chemist.

What do you think it was that triggered the amino acids to combine and multiply? Can you admit that you have no idea?

One thing that you might want to keep in mind, is that there are some forms of "Christianity" that may not be healthy to those of us on the spectrum. What I mean is that there are churches and congregations that stress withdrawal from what they call "the world", and this can vary from group to group. I have seen people become so wrapped up in their religion (with the encouragement of their church) that they lose almost all interest in anything outside the church. They no longer participate in anything except church activities, they shut their minds down, lose their curiosity and creativity, and what may be even worse, insist that those around them do likewise. For those of us on the spectrum, who may already have a tendency to withdraw from social interaction, this could prove a disaster. Unfortunately, in my experience, it is precisely those individuals and those churches who are the most aggressive in recruiting, and it is not always easy to know just how to determine what is a good situation. I would say that if you are struggling to integrate yourself into society, don't just blindly follow a group's social do's and don'ts, but evaluate them in terms of what you want and what is best for you (not what others say is best for you). Ask yourself, if confronted with a restriction, is this going to help or hinder me?

With that in mind, I would say the older established mainline denominations are probably your best bet, as they do not seem to put very many restrictions upon their members.

I have faith

On church-shopping:

Go with your gut. First impressions usually turn out to be correct.