ISA 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.ISA 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
My post was replying to a suggestion that God could have created the world with fossils already in the earth, and other signs of vast age on day one.
In my exposure to creationism, it seemed fairly common for creationists to hold that the earth was (consistent with Bishop Usher's calculations from scriputre) about 6,000 years old.
As far as ancient literature claiming the universe was created recently... Just turn to Genesis 1:1 and you'll read: In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. That's got the earth showing up right at the beginning, and humans show up just 6 days later. Then if you follow Usher's calculations (based on the lineage from Adam)... you can deduce that this all happened just 6000 years ago. Seems pretty recent to me.
My point is that the abundant physical evidence that the world, and the cosmos, are very old contradicts such a literal reading of Genesis. Any hypothesis that God deliberately created a world which only appears billions of years old requires God to be deceitful. So I prefer to believe instead that Genesis, written for a pre-technological semi-nomadic people thousands of years ago, is only a poetic fable containing some essential spiritual truths but not a literal history of the world.
But that aside, I'm still hoping for an answer to my post #99 - how do you figure Darwin cost 100 million lives?