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Bible tells us that the earth is flat like a piece of clay stamped under a seal (Job 38:13-14),

No, It doesn't tell us that.

It says ...

Job 38:14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

There is nothing in that passage about "flat."

If I said my baseball was stamped IN GOD WE TRUST, as a penny is stamped, does that mean my baseball is flat?
 
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No, It doesn't tell us that.

It says ...

Job 38:14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

There is nothing in that passage about "flat."

If I said my baseball was stamped IN GOD WE TRUST, as a penny is stamped, does that mean my baseball is flat?


Actually they do.

Of course reading comprehension is still sadly lacking in most fundamentalists.
 
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Actually they do.

Of course reading comprehension is still sadly lacking in most fundamentalists.

If I said my baseball was stamped IN GOD WE TRUST, as a penny is stamped, does that mean my baseball is flat?
 
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Luke 5:37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.

Interesting how the verse is about wine, not the earth.
 
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Interesting how the verse is about wine, not the earth.

2 Peter 3:5a For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old,

Notice it says 'they willingly are ignorant'?
 
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2 Peter 3:5a For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old,

Notice it says 'they willingly are ignorant'?

No, but I do notice how this verse is not about the earth either. And I also notice that you didn't answer my question. What requires the earth to be 4.5 billion years old for it to be "mature"?
 
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A random word is not an answer. What requires the earth to be 4.5 billion years old for it to be "mature"?

For the second time: obedience.

When God spoke the earth into existence as old as it was, it didn't refuse to obey.

This earth was created mature.

That means this earth was created with the ability to perform that which was expected.

Why so much maturity as 4.5 billion years is the Creator's choice.

I personally suspect it has something to do with the anthropic principle; but I don't know.

In any event, whether 4.5 billion years or 20 years, or even 1/10 second ... that would constitute embedded age.

So it's just a matter of degrees.
 
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Amazing, just amazing. "Obedience", that's even worse than "God did it".

Ya ... that "O" word is just a bad word, isn't it?

Scientists have done more to bring this country down morally than at any other time.
 
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Because a ball of molten rock waiting to cool down would not be
suitable to make land and place plants upon within a few days.

Or a young star waiting millions of years to grow into a yellow one
so as to sustain life.

God did not have to wait. He created everything mature and in
working order.
 
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Because a ball of molten rock waiting to cool down would not be
suitable to make land and place plants upon within a few days.

Or a young star waiting millions of years to grow into a yellow one
so as to sustain life.

God did not have to wait. He created everything mature and in
working order.

If God is truly a timeless being, what difference does it make whether it takes six days or six years or six eons? Waiting is only a problem when you're bound by time. God isn't. It makes absolutely no difference to him whether the star takes a million year to form or whether it's ready to go right out the box. It's all the same.

Besides, he did 'wait', even if you take the story as literal as it can be taken. He did it in six days, when he obviously could have done it all instantaneously, if he wanted to.
 
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