I’m totally confused here......the Creationists are revelling in the fact that this find throws a “monkey-wrench” into the complexities of Evolutionist theory YET at the same time they’re acknowledging that this fossilized forest is millions of years old. I always thought diehard creationists would only admit that the Earth is 7,000 years old and thats it (or something like that). It seems to me that it’s just one more piece to a impossible puzzle that no one can totally figure out.
don’t even bother asking questions, it will get you nowhere
You see, there are young earth creationists, and there are old earth creationists. An old earth is fine with the old earth creationists.
complexities of evolutionary theory? No, there is no theory. It’s just a lot of stories applied on an ad hoc basis to give the illusion it explains everything. Just as ptolemaic theory appears complex and explanatory because poof! you add an epicycle whenever the data doesn’t fit the original model.
“..diehard creationists would only admit that the Earth is 7,000 years old and thats it (or something like that).”
I agree - it was created on a Friday the 13th.
There are a lot of us who don't see the gap between science and the Bible.. of course, we aren't 'Young Earthers'.. The problem a lot of people have (on both sides) is trying to apply the How (Science) to the Why (Bible) and vice versa and thinking that the Why is the How and the How is the Why.. Thusly, the 'Young Earth' creationists are always trying to refute science that contradicts their interpretation of the Bible and atheist evolutionists are unable to answer the statistical improbabilities for many of the fundamental trigger events and intangibles- such as the faith they are trying to refute.
I consider myself a theo-evolutionist. (this is not 'intelligent design' which just tries to plug God into whatever gap that science has.)
” I always thought diehard creationists would only admit that the Earth is 7,000 years old “
bingo!
“I always thought diehard creationists would only admit that the Earth is 7,000 years old “
NOPE!
That’s just the small group that evo’s like to point to.
For myself, I take the view that the universe is probably very old, and yet still maintain that Genesis was the inspired word of God (although I allow that God could have created the universe to simply look old, this seems unlikely to me).
I hold that God's messages to mankind in Genesis are plentiful and profound, but are geared toward understanding the human spiritual condition, not to advancing the physical sciences. Conversely, our discoveries about how vast creation is in size, detail, and time, is evidence that God may has been understating His own greatness.
Moreover, current science strongly suggests that the universe, though very old, could not have simply always existed. Which I see as being a big problem for any non-trascendent philosophy, including naturalism and related forms of atheism.
They (We)..don’t it only places evoutionary theory in jeopardy in its current form becuase supposedly in their theorized timeline mangroves didn’t evolve in this “strata” of rock since they were supposed to have evolved millions of years later according to evolutionary theory..It’s like finding an apple computer in the ruins of troy!
We have a winner!!!! We admit that the Earth is old so the evil evolutionists cannot be right!!!! Some Monty Python anyone?
Why do you believe others believe the Earth is 7000 years or so old?