# How does a Christian reconcile Creation with fossils? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 20, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-christian-reconcile-creation-with-fossils/88634 "2001-10-20T21:34:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-christian-reconcile-creation-with-fossils/88634/61 "2002-09-29T18:21:08Z")
Jersey Diamond, I’m afraid I don’t have the time to get into a full-fledged debate right now. However, if you’d like to send me your answers to the geology [stumper questions,](http://psyche11.home.mindspring.com/ben/GeologyFAQ.htm) I’d be willing to put your response on my webpage. (And as for the rest of you, I’d be more than pleased if you could point out any errors you spot in the geology FAQ.) ---
**Author:** ![JerseyDiamond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@JerseyDiamond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerseyDiamond)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-christian-reconcile-creation-with-fossils/88634/62 "2002-09-30T03:58:57Z")
**Ben** , just so you know, I don’t claim to be a “young creatonist”. I don’t think that our idea of time is the same as God’s. A day for God could have been 2 minutes, 24 hours, or 100 years. One way or the other, science doesn’t disprove the Bible, it only proves it. I am curious to know what you think of this web page I stumbled across [http://www.trueorigin.org/geocolumn.asp](http://www.trueorigin.org/geocolumn.asp) ``` JD ``` ---
**Author:** ![Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ben)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-christian-reconcile-creation-with-fossils/88634/63 "2002-09-30T05:02:48Z")
Did you read my FAQ? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-christian-reconcile-creation-with-fossils/88634/64 "2002-09-30T05:37:28Z")
To: [http://www.trueorigin.org/geocolumn.asp](http://www.trueorigin.org/geocolumn.asp) Talk Origins has provided: [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/geocolumn/](http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/geocolumn/) ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-christian-reconcile-creation-with-fossils/88634/65 "2002-09-30T10:41:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flabbygirlyman \* > \*\*I once had a Jehovah’s Witness girl friend ,and I asked her how do you explain all them there fossils. Her answer : “The devil put them there to lead us astray” ! Come to your own conclusions . \*\* Wow. I had a Christian friend at school who answered the same question, stating, _“ **God** put the fossils there to test our faith…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-christian-reconcile-creation-with-fossils/88634/66 "2002-09-30T11:02:25Z")
If Satan put the fossils there, then you have to accept (having already accepted that there is such an entity) that he is capable of acts of _creation_, which poses a problem (I think). If God put the fossils there, then you have to accept that he is a deceiver ( **Polycarp** has explained this far better than I ever could in a number of threads) ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-christian-reconcile-creation-with-fossils/88634/67 "2002-10-01T20:43:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vanilla \* > \*\*IMHO, I believe the Bible and God creating the world in 6 literal days by faith, not proof. \*\* Vanilla I think that is a courageous statement to make here. I don’t hold it as a cornerstone of my own faith but I respect it. That leaves the original question, do you reconcile your belief in creation with fossil evidence or just disregard it? You being a bible creation literalist makes you best able to give a direct answer to the OP. FWIW I am not a creation literalist so there is little for me to reconcile. I believe that Genesis is not blueprint for the universe but a story that outlines our relationship with God. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-a-christian-reconcile-creation-with-fossils/88634.md?page=3)