>To believe in a God who created according to the literal interpretation of Genesis is to believe there is a God so set on deceiving people into disbelief in Him that He planted fossil evidence and warped the behavior of carbon in order to "test" the faithful.
To believe in a God who created according to Evolution is to believe there is a God who is so set on deceiving people into disbelief in him that he lied about how he spoke the world into existance and intentionally tricked people into thinking creation was random and without purpose.
By the way carbon dating is only reliable to about 10,000 years.After that it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
To believe in a God who created according to Evolution is to believe there is a God who is so set on deceiving people into disbelief in him that he lied about how he spoke the world into existance and intentionally tricked people into thinking creation was random and without purpose. Like I said, if your belief in God is so tied into the interpretation of one episode in Scripture, then you should be scared of science.
Don't try to make this God's fault. He did not leave us alone to try to muddle out our own impressions of what truth should be taken from Scripture. He left us a Church to guide us.
The behavior of atomic particles appears random and without purpose. We can't even say for sure where a given particle is at a given moment. This doesn't mean there is no God. It is not the realm of science to speak about God's existence, only to observe what is in nature.
SD