If God created the earth and the universe some few thousand years ago HE went through a lot of trouble to make it look much much older.
Starlight has traveled for hundreds of millions of light years before reaching Earth, some of it denoting stars that have never actually existed within the last six thousand years.
Antarctica was once in temperate latitudes, and one can find temperate archaic species (but no modern ones) buried beneath the ice. How did Antarctica move from temperate to polar latitudes within a few thousand years without ripping the planet apart? Why are only archaic temperate species found (Dinosaurs and such) but no modern temperate species?
Add to this the physics of atomic decay, the evidence of Geology, history, the fossil record, and many other independent lines of evidence and the case for a “young earth” is clearly only supported by haphazard Biblical interpretation and not Science.
“Our faith becomes a matter of ridicule if any Christian, not blessed with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma that which scientific scrutiny has shown to be false” Thomas Aquinas.
If God created the earth and the universe some few thousand years ago HE went through a lot of trouble to make it look much much older.
Starlight has traveled for hundreds of millions of light years before reaching Earth, some of it denoting stars that have never actually existed within the last six thousand years.
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Just as He made Adam and Eve fully mature on day 6, could he not make the universe fully mature?
We are warned in the Bible to be wary of “oppositions of science, falsely so called.”
I call your attention to what were prevailing theories of phlogiston, ether, and currently global warming. There is no consensus on the last, and it took some time for consensus to appear on the former two, that they were wrong.
Your blowing off the scientists at AIG without looking at what they say is argument by assertion. I have every confidence you are a fine scientist, with knowledge far exceeding my own. But they are also experts, and you can’t handwave them away credibly.
I have gone through their material, and my BS meter (goes off a lot when debating liberals on taxation, abortion, and foreign policy) never went off. It’s plausible to me what they say ... and that is also argument by assertion. :)
I invite you to check it out. Don’t check your brains at the door when you do.
It would be good to review the scientific controversies of those days. Unfortunately, Galileo, 300 years later, was not saved by these words.