If you have One God who Created the Universe, that's your starting point. It does not therefore follow that God continued to create every single second of creation in the greatest of detail ~ and we can, in fact, demonstrate that this does not happen. God does leave a lot of stuff to fields, forces, dimensions, quantum mechanics and so forth (the words we use in our time to describe certain phenomenon we do not fully understand).
The "young earth" crowd are also readily dealt with in a single story.
It's in the various tales of Abraham ~ and recall that Abraham (in the Bible and other sources) comes along quite a few centuries after Adam, and Inkydu, and so on ~ many centuries ~ thousands of years in fact.
The Young Earthers are giving us about 5100 years for everything to happen, and there's Abraham, and his "kinsman", Lot. And what's Lot doing? Well, he's wandering about with his flocks and family, doing stuff, and among the the stuff is this trip to the nasty old cities of Sodom and Gomorrah where people do outrageous things.
We all know those stories whether we are religious people or not because the events have been popularlized by professional homosexuals to advance the idea that the Bible is "out of date" these days since, as it were, they think being "gay" is good.
Well, anyway, not to belabor the point, but the really big story in Lot is actually about Lot's wife. When we left her she'd been turned into rock salt, or stone, for "looking back", presumably wistfully, at the cities of the plain which were being destroyed by a rain of fire and brimstone.
So, Lot's wife is dead in the middle of what is actually her morality tale. We recall, from their life in the town, that Lot's wife, even with the assistance of angelic beings, was unable to secure husbands for her daughters. Instead, the men of the town much preferred the angelic beings, so Lot's wife was failing in one of her primary duties. Having failed, and now with the town being destroyed around their ears, there was no hope for any future for her daughters, so she was "turned to stone" and abandoned by Lot.
Next on the agenda is ol'Lot, high as a kite, having intercourse with his daughters.
End of the story of the mother who failed to find husbands for her daughters.
So, where else do we find this story? Obviously if we do enough digging in Iraq we are going to come across it in ancient Sumerian, but if we go further, say to Finland, to the stone carvings that have been dated through modern techniques to be at least 7,200 years old, we find the very same story of Lot's wife in the petroglyphs.
Leningrad's Hermitage Museum has some of these items if you ever get a real burning desire to see them although most remain in Northern Finland and Keralia.
So much for 5,100 years. How, then, did the Bible end up with a story that's older than Creation (using the "young earth" method of measuring time?
I don't think they can answer it.
What is your source for this evidence? I can't seem to find any references to it, and I would like to examine the dating techniques.
Cordially,