[Fichori]

“The age of this planet is not a matter of faith, it is established fact.” [excerpt]

Well, you are wrong on that point.

Everything could have come into existence 5 minutes ago with the appearance of great age, and you would have no idea.

As far as that goes, you have faith that it didn't.

You have faith in your interpretation of what you call evidence that you claim establishes the factualness of an age which you assert is that of the Earth.

“If the Earth was only 6000 years old, then explain to me why there are so many visible stars in the sky at night, most much more than 6000 light years away.” [excerpt]

Your getting the dust cloud ahead of the camel.

An entity capable of creating everything that is in existence is certainly capable of making stars a great distances visible.

God gave a number of reasons given why He created the stars, but 'universal dating service' was not one of them.

[allmendream]

Last Thursdayism small g god as a deceiver bump.

[MrB]

Adam was created as an adult human.
Extrapolate, with omnipotence, to the entire universe.

[UCANSEE2]

As far as that goes, you have faith that it didn't. You have faith in your interpretation of what you call evidence that you claim establishes the factualness of an age which you assert is that of the Earth.

And isn't that what the real issue is on these threads?

Faith vs. Science?

[nuke rocketeer]

A God who creates a situation where easily discovered physical laws and visual data contradict the scriptures he supposedly caused to be written is not a god I'll worship. A loving god will not set traps like that, only evil will.

I don't have faith in the facts. The facts are the facts, no faith required. The facts fit and verify current physics, again no faith required. Faith is required only when you deny the evidence that proves your religious based age is wrong. You have faith in your theory, no facts to back it up.

BTW....the 4.5 billion year age for earth (+-200 million)is an established fact backed by the physical evidence and confirmed physics. A collection of tribal oral histories is not verifiable evidence.