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Taking questions on Embedded Age Creation (2)

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If The Creator ever said the earth was even a hundred thousand years old He would have explaining to do since He Himself Says otherwise already..
Instead, He Told us how old it is, how long it took Him to Create all things /NOT replicate all things - He did not copy anyone/ ... and He is not a man/not a human that he could lie./like humans do.
I think you missed my point.

When God's own creation indicates that it is billions of years old, for us to conclude otherwise means we think God's own work is false.
 
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If The Creator ever said the earth was even a hundred thousand years old He would have explaining to do since He Himself Says otherwise already..
Instead, He Told us how old it is, how long it took Him to Create all things /NOT replicate all things - He did not copy anyone/ ... and He is not a man/not a human that he could lie./like humans do.
I don't think anywhere in the Bible did your God say how old the Earth is.
 
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I don't think anywhere in the Bible did your God say how old the Earth is.
Would it matter?

It says Methuselah died 969 years old?

Do you believe that?
 
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Would it matter?

It says Methuselah died 969 years old?

Do you believe that?
There are plenty of religious texts that make plenty of fantastic claims.

Why should we believe any of them without evidence?
 
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Would it matter?

It says Methuselah died 969 years old?

Do you believe that?
What does that have to do with the Bible not saying how old the earth is?

But to answer your question, no, I don't believe it.
 
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There are plenty of religious texts that make plenty of fantastic claims.

Why should we believe any of them without evidence?
Thanks for the QED.
 
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What does that have to do with the Bible not saying how old the earth is?

But to answer your question, no, I don't believe it.
Fair enough. Thank you for an honest answer.
 
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Do you know the difference between EMBEDDED AGE CREATION and OMPHALOS CREATION?

Are you implying that on the day Adam & Eve were created, Adam had "faded, scratched paintwork, rusty wheel arches, black oil, worn bearings, leaky gaskets, broken shocks, brittle plastic, 4 billion miles on the odometer - all put there on purpose"?
What? No, Adam & Eve is just a story. But if they had been created and we were their descendants, they would have to have been created with a full embedded history of their evolutionary ape, mammal, and vertebrate heritage; with the same basic chemistry, organs, anatomy, physiology, genetics, etc. If they had been created in the image of anything, it would have to have been the image of an intelligent bipedal hominid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The story simply doesn't add up in any direction - unless it was not intended literally.
 
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No, Adam & Eve is just a story. But if they had been created and we were their descendants, they would have to have been created with a full embedded history of their evolutionary ape, mammal, and vertebrate heritage; with the same basic chemistry, organs, anatomy, physiology, genetics, etc. If they had been created in the image of anything, it would have to have been the image of an intelligent bipedal hominid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As the saying goes:

Evolutionists make monkeys out of themselves.
 
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Not time -- age.

Age is by definition when an object passes through time. If you are using a different definition can you provide it?

So what evidence do you have that age is a property that can be embedded into an object?
 
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Age is a measure of time
Age is by definition when an object passes through time. If you are using a different definition can you provide it?

So what evidence do you have that age is a property that can be embedded into an object?
Age: one of the stages of life

SOURCE
 
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