‘If you started with the Bible alone, without considering any outside influences whatsoever, could you ever come up with millions or billions of years of history for the Earth and universe?’ The answer from this scholar? ‘Absolutely not!’
Let’s be honest. Take out your Bible and look through it. You can’t find any hint at all for millions or billions of years.
This misses the point. As an old-world creationist I do not conclude that the world is millions of years old based on the Bible, but from outside of it. I also conclude that it is possible for people to build machines that fly, although the Bible did not tell me this either.
What I am looking for is a contradiction, not support. There is plenty of support for an old world in non-Biblical evidence.
>What I am looking for is a contradiction, not support.
>There is plenty of support for an old world in non-
>Biblical evidence.
Just as Adam and Eve were created fully mature, so was the universe. Is it not possible for God to have created the universe fully mature(as if billions of years old, with light from stars hundreds of light years away visible on day 7), if he created Adam and Eve (grown man and woman) fully mature, though only a day old?
Check out http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/08/ and ask yourself if God, who created the universe, could create everything in 6 days, and create light between something 13 billion light years away, and us, so that it is visible roughly 6000 years into creation?
So basically, we can see it 6000 years after it was made, though it should have taken 13 billion years for the light to get here. Couldn’t God do that?