On How I Believe God Created The World

Not the actual methods, but the way He made the final results.

from JoeUser Forums

I believe that God created the world with an infinite depth. We can go back 4M+ years with "science", but God gave us free will to allow an total world. Also, I do not believe that the world is necessarily terribly young. I don't know how old it is, but I do believe that it's probably older than the 6K some suggest. Though, I'm not ruling it out, I'm merely saying that God could've let us develop a long time. Also, in accordance with free will, I believe that God made plenty of evidence. I do believe in Pangea (if simulated by God, given Earth's unknown age).

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
but I do believe that it's probably older than the 6K some suggest.
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Me too. Just a wee little bit older than that.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

We can go back 4M+ years with "science",
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Or 4.54 billion years...something like that.

~Zoo

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top

You'd think it was much much older than that given the actual evidence that's been found, like say, fossils dating millions of years, or what not. But silly me. :p

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

I hate radio-carbon dating. What verifiable standards do we have in the B.C. period?

Or are you using a more verifiable dating method?

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I hate radio-carbon dating.
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Why? Bad experiences? There's lots of radiometric dating options...carbon isn't the only one.

Most of it involves measuring the ratios of parent isotopes and daughter material...there's also a way called isochron dating to skip the assumption of that ratio in case contamination occured. There are probably a slew of other measurement techniques, but I'm no geologist...so if you're curious, Google will provide answers. :)

~Zoo
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

Also, I do not believe that the world is necessarily terribly young. I don't know how old it is, but I do believe that it's probably older than the 6K some suggest. Though, I'm not ruling it out, I'm merely saying that God could've let us develop a long time. Also, in accordance with free will, I believe that God made plenty of evidence. I do believe in Pangea (if simulated by God, given Earth's unknown age).

 

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The world might be 6000 years old, but the planets in it are certainly a lot older. G-d can certainly create objects that are very old once created. He can also create creatures that evolved from other creatures (and science tells us that either He has or it really happened).

I'm not sure where the number "6000" comes from anyway. There is no sane reason to prefer Jewish legends over any other legends. I am also not convinced that the years given in the Bible should be taken literally. (If the Bible should be taken literally, we'd have to cope with a G-d with a hand and physical body. Haven't seen that, never believed it either.)

 

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

(I have a sqyare bracket \quote square bracket between "dating method?" and "By". But JoeUser apparently doesn't care...

 

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Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

Bad Auth...

Cannot edit the two previous comments. Could, however, remove the offending bit of the comment before that.

 

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

Wait, which comments Leauki? Just say the numbers.

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top

Sorry, took me a while to comment again. JoeUser automatically logged me out whenever I came back to this page.

Comments 7, 8, and 9 are unecessary and the result of trying to edit comment 6.