True enough - But the lie may very well be in the interpretation of that evidence.
I firmly believe in the Creator God , I just think the puny and limited knowledge level mankind got the time line wrong .
Or, in our hubris, modern man, with our equally puny and limited knowledge, got the timeline wrong.
Since everything in our experience and consciousness is so limited , we seem to try and impose those limits and definitions upon God and His creation .
Exactly true, but not in the way you seem to suppose.
To the point of unintelligently rejecting ever peg that does not fit into the forms we create .
But that is done all the time in modern archaeology - That which does not conform to the current paradigm is consistently ignored. The proof is in the errata, not the theory.
I was asking a pastor friend recently how do explain dinosaur fossils , which carbon date and also exist in geological structures that can be dated ? he told me of a few references to ‘ Leviathon ‘ . Sorry , not all dinos were big , some were minute and the variety of fossil record we have now found is immense , not some single species. Let’s be frank , the ancient Jews just did not know , they could not know , they didn’t have the information . Not to fault them in any way ; they made things up to explain the unexplainable .
Who is to say they are being dated accurately? The problem with your premise is that one can no longer trust the Bible, relying instead upon the works of men. For instance, the Bible says explicitly that death did not enter into the Creation until the fall of Man. Your scenario necessarily refutes that explicit declaration, with death (and decay) being natural. Which then, is true?
God is far far more vast , complex , intricate , and ancient , than anything we can come close to defining via the human mind . Imagine earthworms trying to figure out and define the Himalayas ....
Then why not believe Him?
I’m from Missouri ....waiting to hear from Him directly .
And yes , I have come to distrust the spin of mankind .
Geology and paleontology are what they are , forensic evidence , tangibles . Nothing made up or extrapolated .
I have ‘studied’ religions and spirituality for many many years . Attended church , been baptized and pray daily , and after all of that , I hold this more pragmatic approach , rather than pure faith on unsubstantiated theology and the writings of the ancients alone . If a man of the Abrahamic times came upon a fossil embedded in a rock face , what would he have made of it ? can a mouse define the Himalayas ? It can assume they are BIG , but it has no idea how big ....what does the mouse tell other mice ? The mountains are BIG!.... but there is more involved . Much more .