(May 19, 2025 at 5:40 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: True enough, but the SDAs insist that the Earth is just 6000 years old (more or less). I've yet to hear a scientific explanation of how consciousness arose in that teensy-weensy time frame.
No; Genesis introduces Earth as already existing, empty of life and covered in water, before creation week. And why would consciousness require any time at all? You went from a single cell to a conscious infant in under nine months, is that time frame also teensy-weensy?