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Taking Questions on Embedded Age Creation

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It would be nice if Christians also would honour God for creation and realize that natural science is useless to tell us about that creation or oppose it.
It would be nice if you would be honest and admit what is obvious to all of US--the you are not arguing in favor of God and His authorship of are being, but only in favor of your interpretation of scripture.
 
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Christians who are not YEC honor God for creation by understanding what creation itself, God's first and only direct book, is telling them.
If God created the rock and science looked at that rock the next day, they would claim old ages. Yet that would not be understanding. It would be foolishness. All understanding we have of creation honours God. The attribution of existence to natural processes is not 'understanding' anything
By the way imagining or interpreting nature in a way that dishonours Scripture is misreading it. A proper reading of the book of nature is that the heavens declare the glory of God and even the beasts know about God and creation!
 
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No, I'm not going to forget that radioactive potassium-40 decays into argon-40. It's something that potassium-40 does.
Yes you need to forget that when looking at a rock that was created on day one that has such material in it. Obviously it could not have come by old age or any natural process! It has no bearing or connection or relation to a rock on the day after creation.
If we find a pinecone under a pine tree with no other pine trees in miles, we're going to assume that the pinecone fell from that particular pine tree.
If that particular tree was in the garden of Eden, then sure, why not assume it fell? (unless Eve pulled it off the tree for a look or decoration for her home etc)
Sure, both could have been created out of thin air by God days ago, but we know that pinecones fall from pine trees.
The tree in the example of Eden would have been created days ago! Seeing a cone on the ground days later does not mean much. Unless you were thinking the tree came from the cone or some such!
If we find argon-40 mixed in with potassium-40 and know that argon-40 comes from potassium-40,
No. Not the day after creation. Any of those things would exist independent of any processes of nature. They did not come to exist by natural means but by the will and creation of God.
then unless indicated otherwise it's safe to assume that the argon-40 got there by decay of potassium-40.
Absolutely false in any age! There is too much of the daughter material present to possibly have come to exist by decay! You simply observe a process happening today and attribute the existence of the materials, all the materials, to that process. You did not know when to stop. There are some isotopes of that kind being produced by decay today of course as well. You give all the credit to the processes and miss the forest of GOD for the trees.
 
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It would be nice if you would be honest and admit what is obvious to all of US--the you are not arguing in favor of God and His authorship of are being, but only in favor of your interpretation of scripture.
You should admit that all the bible speaks of the creation and refers to Genesis as well often. Jesus also mentioned the beginning and first couple etc. Your attempt to obfuscate this has no currency whatsoever.
 
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Since God is a spirit, how is it that you look only to physical processes to find out when He made all things? That seems to be a contradiction in terms
Because God is straight up and honest in all He does. God is incapable of being otherwise. That included His Creation. When God through His Creation is showing us when and how a geological event's happened, that's when and how it happened. Period! God doesn't mess around with His Creation.

Spiritually, everywhere I look, there God is. It's all in the blessings of His Creation, if we know how to look.
 
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It would be nice if Christians also would honour God for creation and realize that natural science is useless to tell us about that creation or oppose it.
Natural sciences have opened a window into how God Creates. I see that as deserving the highest honors.
 
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God did not do any such thing. He told us He made it all. You 'go though' it using something else other than God or creation. The methodology of science does not see God in any aspect of creation, quite the contrary.
Spiritually, everywhere I look, there God is. It's all in the blessings of His Creation, if we know how to look.
Which God? Jesus created the heavens and earth, all things. Jesus created Adam and Eve. Jesus told us that they were there at the beginning. Anyone that tells you anything else is either lying or delusional.
 
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Natural sciences have opened a window into how God Creates. I see that as deserving the highest honors.
Natural science claims that nature created man and all things including the universe. That is not the creation of God! That is vain imagination casting God into the gutter and blaspheming by claiming He is not the creator and the Scripture Jesus verified and fulfilled is a filthy lie.
 
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So tell us, when God separated the water from the land on the planet could that have involved some fissures?
Nope. The lava dykes are rock.
There are no physical examples of your suggestion.

Here's an image of one of a lava dyke.

Also if it was not an eruption but just molten rock moving or some such then would there not also be a path?
Yes, there are paths. One runs 300 miles to the Oregon Coast.
Now you are claiming that the event was long after creation. Fine. Firstly, prove it. Then we can go from there.
I'm just trying to correct your comment in post#1006 about basalt at the imagined time of Creation with an examples of basalt not at all related to that imagined time. Which is basalt dated back to 16 million years ago.
 
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we can show that the 4.5 billion year age of the Earth is real and not the result of embedded age.
The Bible teaches a young earth roughly 10,000 years or less

Job walked with the dinosaur (Brontosaurus/Behemouth) as the Bible clearly describes below

Job 40:15-24KJV
15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
 
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Nope. The lava dykes are rock.
There are no physical examples of your suggestion.
Of course what was formerly molten rock would become rock. Why pretend I suggested something else?
Yes, there are paths. One runs 300 miles to the Oregon Coast.
So? How does that help you?
I'm just trying to correct your comment in post#1006 about basalt at the imagined time of Creation with an examples of basalt not at all related to that imagined time. Which is basalt dated back to 16 million years ago.
So your point is that these rocks were not from the time of creation. I have no problem with that, lots of things happened and formed long after creation. However you have not proven that it was not at the time of creation here. You simply showed tall rocks and noted there also were paths. In what way must we deduce that there could have been no molten rock when God separated the waters from the land on day 2? In what way can you prove this was long after creation exactly?

The things is that we can't use the materials in the rocks to tell us when. As I mentioned, whether God was there and affecting things at creation or anytime after, things still got affected! For example, let's say that the movement of molten rock that left these paths happened somewhere around the time of Babel. We know God was on earth then! We also know that He did things then that affected all mankind. If His will happened to be to have continents drift quickly apart, well that is what would have happened and happened in a way that took mankind into account. In other words no heat was going to kill mankind as a result of something He willed to happen. We still have molten rock, we still have paths we still have materials in the rocks etc etc. All we do not have is the naturalistic explanation you though you could tack onto the rocks. No problem.
 
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I disagree, the God hating humanist atheist would agree with you
I don't think the Earth, as Created by God would disagree though. The Earth has a way of showing the truth of itself. Being of God, the Earth can't lie.
 
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I don't think the Earth, as Created by God would disagree though. The Earth has a way of showing the truth of itself. Being of God, the Earth can't lie.
Only according to secular humanist athiest

Millions and Millions of years ago = Man's Fairy Tale
 
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No, because there is no possibility of using radioactive dating or any scientific method on a newly created rock.
Rocks less than 2000 years old have been accurately dated with radiometric dating. Why couldn't they date rocks created 6000 years ago or so? (Or whatever actual date creation is in your personal theology.)
No you are talking about dismissing creation and God and Scripture and supplanting them with some little natural process did it all theory and so called dating method.
I'm talking about what happens *AFTER* creation, not during.
No. As I said above, a rock created by a creator 6000 years ago could be dated depending on if it started with any radioactive isotopes or not. This is true if you believe in a creator or not.
No. Not if that rock and all that it contains was created.
 
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