Science is not political correctness especially something as basic as whether the earth is 9,000 years old or billions of years old. Individuals are entitled to their beliefs, but Broun is specifically stating that his beliefs will govern his policy decisions in the area of science. How would your soon with a B.S. in Physics explain the evidence which exists of a earth much older (4 x 10^5) than 9,000 years. You could argue that God started (restarted) his simulation 9,000 years ago so that it would appear that events occurred prior to that time? Why would he do that? I am waiting for Rep. Broun’s evidence of a 9,000 year old earth. Will he make it available to us so we can compare it to the library of evidence that the earth is over 4 billion years old? I have an interesting book in my library called Prehistoric Life. If you accept 9,000 years old (and God did not start the clock in midstride so to speak) then an incredible variety of flora and fauna would have had to exist simulataneously and be fossilized in distict layers where bunny rabbits are not in the same layer as ophiacodons or bony fish with archaeocyathids. I think a useful application of Occam’s Razor is in order.
“I think a useful application of Occam’s Razor is in order.”
I think a useful application of the Bible is in order. It supersedes all of our “knowledge.”
God created the world in six days in excellent working order. Mountains were up high, trees were full grown, in soil, which is of course broken down elements, Adam and Eve were created as full blown adults. It was a miracle. It need not fulfill whatever scientific laws we have discovered.