In re: red shift, I believe that God created things in mature states. For instance, if Adam had cut down a tree the first few days, there would have been rings. Even though the tree had been standing there “full grown.”
Think about Jesus turning the water into wine in Galilee.
How do we turn water into wine? We pour it near a grapevine, the water wicks up the stem, goes into the grapes, they ripen, we harvest, we crush, we filter, we store for years or what have you (pardon me if I leave out a step or two, I have never made wine). At the end we have a delicious product that is the fruit of perhaps many years’ work.
Jesus did it instantaneously. But if you have put a drop of His wine on a microscope slide, it probably would have looked just like a nice wine made the traditional way.
Normally, light travels at a certain speed. But God isn’t under any compulsion to do things normally.
As for no human fossils being found next to dinosaur fossils, if you say so, I’ll take you at your word. I have mentioned the Paluxy River Bed in previous posts. But, I have been informed that the human fossil footprints next to the dino tracks there are suspect in some way. I don’t know.
But I ask you, because I don’t know the answer, what types of fossils ARE found near dino fossils? Is there a large variety, or just a few things? Is the mere absence of human fossils next to dino fossils proof that men never lived on this earth at the same time as they?
>>In re: red shift, I believe that God created things in mature states. For instance, if Adam had cut down a tree the first few days, there would have been rings. Even though the tree had been standing there “full grown.”<<
So the billions of miles observed from the red shift predate the beginning of the Universe?
>>Think about Jesus turning the water into wine in Galilee.
How do we turn water into wine? We pour it near a grapevine, the water wicks up the stem, goes into the grapes, they ripen, we harvest, we crush, we filter, we store for years or what have you (pardon me if I leave out a step or two, I have never made wine). At the end we have a delicious product that is the fruit of perhaps many years’ work.
Jesus did it instantaneously. But if you have put a drop of His wine on a microscope slide, it probably would have looked just like a nice wine made the traditional way.
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So God created fossils and strata miraculously for some reason only He can understand? He created an entire fake physically consistent history spanning billions of years? To what end was this done?
Yes, there have been miracles. But they tend to be individual events and not broad brush.
>>Normally, light travels at a certain speed. But God isn’t under any compulsion to do things normally.<<
Certainly. I ask again, to what end would God create a consistent physical Universe that can be measured and evaluated, cross-checked and consistency checked?
And do you also think that God just makes physics work on His whim? Chemical reactions depend on His beneficence?
Why would God deceive us so?
>>As for no human fossils being found next to dinosaur fossils, if you say so, I’ll take you at your word. I have mentioned the Paluxy River Bed in previous posts. But, I have been informed that the human fossil footprints next to the dino tracks there are suspect in some way. I don’t know.<<
Yes, you don’t.
>>But I ask you, because I don’t know the answer, what types of fossils ARE found near dino fossils? Is there a large variety, or just a few things? Is the mere absence of human fossils next to dino fossils proof that men never lived on this earth at the same time as they?<<
Yes, it is proof of that.