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You're the one who opened the door to this; if God did the embedded age thing then you need to have a coherent explanation for how you know that it didn't happen five seconds ago. So far you're just relying on memories that were placed in your own embedded age, and ignoring the fact that to God a day is as a thousand years.Do you believe that?* if not, mind if I don't either?
You're the one who opened the door to this; if God did the embedded age thing then you need to have a coherent explanation for how you know that it didn't happen five seconds ago. So far you're just relying on memories that were placed in your own embedded age, and ignoring the fact that to God a day is as a thousand years.
Given your history, a coherent explanation is not what I expect.
Filling the gaps with supposed "miracles". Sheesh!!Are you aware that I now prefer saying the earth is as old as God willed it?
Filling the gaps with supposed "miracles". Sheesh!!
Why not? I think God could have done that. Why do you think he couldn’t have?No embedded age, and Adam couldn't have been given the responsibilities he was given.
But if they had embedded age they would have had navels, surely.That means Adam & Eve had no belly buttons.
Is there an empirical way to distinguish embedded age from real age?
You have just made it much more difficult for anyone to accept Embedded Age Creatonism as true.
But some rocks have scratching tracers from ancient glaciers.That means Adam & Eve had no belly buttons.
But some rocks have scratching tracers from ancient glaciers.
Some dinosaur bones have teeth traces from ancient fights.
Some parts of the ocean floor have magnetic crystals that align with ancient magnetic field reversals.
Astronomers see remnants of ancient supernovae. And so and so on.
Did god embed all these fake events as age too?
And how would you distinguish embedded events from real events?
As near as I can tell, the miracle you claim is that God made the world about 6030 years ago and miraculously declared it to be physically x years old, where x is some number much larger than 6030. You won't tell us what you think x is, but hint that it might be close to 4.5 billion. (See My Canoe Challenge)What gaps?
Gaps come between points A and B.
The miracles came at Point A: the very beginning.
Why not? I think God could have done that. Why do you think he couldn’t have?
I use "fossil record" instead of "fossil layers" because that is the term scientists use. Why should I not be allowed to use the same term that others use? Why do you get to dictate which words I get to use?Suit yourself, Merle.
You won't take my advice and use "fossil layers," so I'm just going to have to pray for you and let it go at that.
But if they had embedded age they would have had navels, surely.
Why is it not possible that what we see in God's creation is what He did ...
... and what the Bible says is simply the word of ancient men who did not have a full grasp of the world around them?
Why force God to adhere to the word of men?
You're the one who believes he did it, so you're the one who needs to make it make sense.
Because what you see in God's creation is not the way it was back then.
You're seeing God's creation PLUS six thousand years of death, destruction, and decay.
Nope.
Then you could project their ignorance into cosmology and come up with all sorts of weird interpretations.
Like the sky being a solid dome, the earth being held up on pill...
... oh, wait!
1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Your "these are the words of men" would then spill over into the New Testament, and you guys would be claiming Paul didn't know what he was talking about.
Any way you look at it, people are good at taking God out of the equation, then the Bible, then our morals, then they get replaced with science, and look at the mess we're in now.
As near as I can tell, the miracle you claim is that God made the world about 6030 years ago and miraculously declared it to be physically x years old,
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