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To: Thatcherite

omphalism?


629 posted on 06/29/2006 10:55:58 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
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To: DungeonMaster
omphalism?

Omphos means navel. There has been speculation about whether God created Adam with a navel or not, given that it would have no function for Adam why would He?

Omphalism refers to the belief that God created the universe 6000 years ago with an appearance of great age.

I ponder what is the difference between an infinitely powerful creator creating something with the appearance of age and the thing actually being old?.... A difference which makes no difference IS no difference.

Further omphalism is scientifically indistinguishable from a rival contention that the universe is 5 minutes old, and God created us all 5 minutes ago with our memories intact. Such claims are essentially worthless because they cannot be tested.

Why would anyone trust or worship a trickster God who for unfathomable reasons created the universe to make it look old when actually it wasn't?

631 posted on 06/29/2006 11:16:36 AM PDT by Thatcherite (I'm PatHenry I'm the real PatHenry all the other PatHenrys are just imitators)
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To: DungeonMaster

All that said however, I speculate that omphalism is the only sane recourse of someone familiar with the physical evidence of the age of the earth who nonetheless wishes to deny that age.


632 posted on 06/29/2006 11:20:10 AM PDT by Thatcherite (I'm PatHenry I'm the real PatHenry all the other PatHenrys are just imitators)
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