10,000 years is just 100 hundred-year lifespans end to end. Having a decent perspective on what a century is, methinks that’s not very long. Then I take my experiences with physics/geology/biology, look at the world as it is, and it’s pretty obvious it didn’t happen in 10,000 years or less, and that the delicate nuances and grand scale weren’t the result of terraforming in a matter of days.
And I read Genesis, and see no conflict of the above therewith.
And if you still insist everything was created less than 10,000 years ago, kindly explain why it all wasn’t done in the last 20 minutes.
Oh, I don't know... very little of what we 'know' is much older than 300 years. There is fair provable history back about 1500 years, but even then, it's getting pretty sketchy. Most of the sciences have taken a quantum leap in the last 100 years or so, relying largely upon extrapolation. I think we have grown comfortable with those extrapolations, and assume science to be fact. That is not necessarily the case. In fact, historically, 'settled science' has time and again been turned over on it's head. Why do you suppose it is any different now?
It is the hubris of Man. The same hubris that accepts our knowledge and society today to be oh, so sophisticated, and attributing near retardation to our direct ancestors (at least by comparison). It isn't so.
Then I take my experiences with physics/geology/biology, look at the world as it is, and it’s pretty obvious it didn’t happen in 10,000 years or less, and that the delicate nuances and grand scale weren’t the result of terraforming in a matter of days.
That presupposes quite a bit. In fact, the Flood is the best and most reasonable explanation of our current biodiversity by the means of micro-evolution. The very thing that Darwin got wrong explains it perfectly - Life (a species) does not change because it MUST. When it MUST, it dies out. A species changes because it CAN. And it happens relatively rapidly.
And I read Genesis, and see no conflict of the above therewith.
Then you aren't understanding Genesis. The only chance you have is gap theory, because after that the patriarchy from Adam onward sets the time frame exclusively. And even with that, an understanding of the Jubilees will probably change your mind.
And if you still insist everything was created less than 10,000 years ago, kindly explain why it all wasn’t done in the last 20 minutes.
Because of the plan. I am not an hard core 6k guy, but I cannot go much farther than 13k without calling YHWH a liar... And without losing sight of the plan.
And I read Genesis, and see no conflict of the above therewith.
It is too bad that people who are literalists are not literalists on things that are easy to understand but on the things that seem impossible.
2 peter 3
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Why don`t they take this scripture literal?