The number of years is not the point. Gd has set up a genius system with genetics and epigenetics and things we have not even discovered yet. Judeo Christian philosophies are not mutually exclusive with biology. They can’t be because Gd created biology.
Words help us understand but words are limited. In different languages there are different meanings for things that supposedly translate perfectly. I speak 4 languages and I know that it isn’t so. Words come close but are not meanings themselves. They are tools. Our bibles are filled with truths but we may not be understanding them perfectly. We do the best we can.
There are wonderful things about this world and there are terrible. This week is an example of both. There are wonders and mysteries about us and our development both ontological and phylogenical. I think I just made up a word.
We aren’t meant to understand everything while we are here. But we have the curiosity to try.
“We aren’t meant to understand everything while we are here. But we have the curiosity to try.”
Given the incomprehensible size of the universe, this will be no problem. Furthermore, we should be curious about the number of years mankind has been on the earth.
Why not?