Posted on 09/03/2003 8:25:36 AM PDT by blam
Sure, as long as you refuse to believe a Creator could have created the star with already-emitted light.
Similarly, you could reject the notion that He created the already-aged (adult) Adam and Eve.
Again, it's just a matter of whom you believe. The light-years prove nothing more than your assumptions.
In Genesis God gives the order of creation which does not match the assumed order in the THEORY of evolution. Here again if God did a long day thing or a gap thing His word is fibbing about the length of days and the order of creation. It seems to be an awful easy thing to take God at His word and ascribe to Him the ability to have done it in whatever timeframe He wanted but definitely in the timeframe He said.
"Trouble"? He spoke it into existence. Didn't even break a sweat.
to deceive us into believing the universe is a specific age
You're limiting your conclusion to your own set of rules, instead of allowing Him to set His own. You simply won't allow Him to create something that "looks old" to your way of thinking. Remember, prior to The Fall, nothing "aged." There was no such thing as entropy. Everything would have looked "old" to us, because we only know how things work in our own experience of time. He has no time.
But, if you insist on thinking that way, you'll have to also declare His creating the adult Adam was an identical deception. Because, when Adam was only one day old, he looked like an adult. Same goes for the plants, animals, fish, etc. Unless, of course, you dismiss the Creation Story altogether.
Lol, I never said he did. Just a way of phrasing things. Look, I don't care whay you worship. Mohammed, Krishna, Roosters whatever. You're a free person. I respect that. As long as you drive on the proper side of the road (sober of course) and stop at stop signs and red lights you and I can coexist in this world no matter how old it is. I would also urge you to vote Republican- but again, this is up to you and is fine with me either way.
Have a nice day!
Hey, it's an open forum ;-)
Nice chatting with you. :-)
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