Hello again Verticordious,
You responded:
It is undeniable that a huge asteroid hit the Earth, given the 112 mile wide crater in southern Mexico and the massive increase in the iridium contents of the soil from that time period all around the globe.
I'm probably not as wise as you in worldly knowledge and so I'm going to have to ask you to 'prove' your statement to me. What 'proof' has been offered as to the 'time' of this meteoric strike? Secondly, what 'proof' has been offered as to the time of this increase in iridium content?
You see, as I understand God, He is wiser than any of our wisest scientists and He knows what everything needs to work properly. Let me give you an example.
The Scriptures tell us that there was a 'day' a literal sun came up and sun went down 'day' that He created the first man. The earth had already been formed and for the sake of this example we won't even consider whether it was also done in a day or an 'eon'. The stars and planets and grass and trees and animals had all been made and the earth and the universe, for all intents and purposes was just as we see it today. Then God created Adam.
Now, for the purposes of this example we will need to use some fiction, but I think if you follow the logic you will find it irrefutable. Let's just say that instead of Adam living over 900 years, he died during the first week of his existence. Seven days of rising and setting suns. He's named all the animals and gotten to see Eve and hopefully had sexual relations with her so that the creation continues, but nevertheless he falls out of a tree trying to gather some food to eat and hits his head and dies. Let's also allow that there was someone who was practiced in forensic science and had all the knowledge of the whole world's libraries regarding this 'scientific' practice. Eve calls this forensics specialist on her cell phone and asks him to come over and do an autopsy on Adam to determine his cause of death. She was probably blonde and didn't understand that the big gaping wound on the side of his head and his brains falling out had anything to do with it.
So the forensics specialist comes and lays Adam out and begins to cut through the sternum and cuts out and weighs all of Adam's internal organs and measures all of his limbs and does all the preliminary work that they do in performing an autopsy. He notes all the weights and measurements on his 'official death certificate' and then makes his detemination based on his voluminous knowledge of forensics.
Under description he writes:
Subject appears to be a healthy male of about 28 years of age,...
Wait a minute!! What?? God just created him last week. How can this great and worldly trained finest forensics specialist make such a glaring mistake?
Well, the answer is simple. He trusted science instead of God. He has studied and knows that a male with bone measurements of the size of this speciman is a matured man who must, no has to be, at least 18 years old. There are volumes and volumes of such proven 'evidence' in all the libraries of the world. He knows that the size and weight of the organs would only be of a man who is in his early twenties. He knows that all of his hair coloring and body hair can only be attributed to a man who has fully matured and that isn't usually until the mid twenties. There is literally tons of evidence and he can pull out of his own personal libraries all kinds of justifcations for his findings, but ultimately, yes, the truth is that he's wrong.
Now, let's look at the earth and try to make some logical conclusions from this fictional account to real life. If... If, God created the earth nearly instanteaneously and for whatever reason the future existence of the planet needed to have a varying iridium content, then God put that in there. We, taking all of our worldy science textbooks, see this change in the iridium levels and based upon what we 'know', what we've 'proven scientifically' we know that the earth must therefore be so many millions of years old because of this change in iridium content that we 'know' must indicate millions of years of age. But, just like in the account of Adam, it just isn't true. The change in iridium content needed to be there for some functional reason just as Adam's organs needed to be fully formed and grown so that Adam could live without aid of a mother's breast to suckle and raise him as a baby. Adam had to be made fully formed and grown into a man because he couldn't have taken care of himself as a day old baby. However, all men since Adam, have come into this world as a suckling babe and so we accept that that is the only way a man can become fully grown, yes, now you can work to discredit and obfuscate the issue by bringing in Elijah. Science has proven beyond any doubt that the only way a man comes to walk on this earth is that a sperm impregnates and egg and a child is born as a wee babe and is suckled and cared for until he becomes a fully grown man.
But there are two exceptions to that 'scientifically proven' 'fact'. Adam and Eve. So, hopefully you will seek the guiding of the Holy Spirit and come to understand that this same 'impossible' event, according to our 'proven science' that would deny the true age of Adam under the circumstances written here, does really deny the true age of the earth. We base all of our 'scientific proof' on what we have observed as rational, natural, logical processes, but friend, the creation was none of that!!
BTW don't forget to take your thinking cap off before you go out.
God bless you.
In Christ, Ted
