[Bryanw92]

>>with all fossil records in place

God does not lie.

I don’t design universes so I really don’t care if the Young Earthers are right or the Old Earthers are right. But I cannot accept the idea that God would create a false fossil record to confuse us.

TBH, the ending of the Battlestar Galactica reboot is the best origin story for Earth’s human race. ;-)

[freedumb2003]

>>TBH, the ending of the Battlestar Galactica reboot is the best origin story for Earth’s human race. ;-)<<

Actually the “B Ark” feels right to me.

And I agree that “God the Trickster” is a very cynical idea.

[wbarmy]

God would create a false fossil record

God did not create a fossil record, the flood did.There is even some evidence in Mt St Helens that fossils can form rather rapidly.

And there is the blood still in T-Rex to show that it happened not to long ago.

[metmom]

This may be of some interest to you.

The Age of the Universe

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3051495/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576941/posts

[sparklite2]

TBH, the ending of the Battlestar Galactica reboot is the best origin story for Earth’s human race. ;-)

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It really copped out on who/what Starbucks was, though.
That said, it’s one of my favorite all-time shows.l

[ctdonath2]

Agreed. The “created in motion” theory makes God out as a liar, presenting false evidence.
The “all from the flood” theory expects far too much order & depth to come from too much energy in too short a time.

10,000 years is just 100 hundred-year lifespans back to back.

Celestial bodies more than 10,000 light years away would not, for all true evidence, exist.

Expecting intricate fossil records from a single giant flood would be like expecting a Swiss watch be created by a nuclear explosion.

Look up. Tell us what you see. Give a sensible expansion.

[GingisK]

God does not lie.

True, but God did not write the Bible. Men did. Men who had little knowledge of the physical world.

[grey_whiskers]

Why does it necessarily have to have been done in order to confuse us?

There are other reasons He might have had, having nothing to do with us.

And -- if it were done to confuse us -- He's done that kind of thing before:

"11And He told them, “The mystery of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside, everything is expressed in parables, 12so that, ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven.’”" Mark 4:11-12

[logi_cal869]

And this author demonstrates why I no longer participate in the faith under which I was raised. I view most of them as stupid.

I did write “most...”

Cue the ad hominem...