(May 20, 2025 at 5:43 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(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?
‘Without form and void.’ SDAs generally believe in a young Earth (though you yourself may not) and a literal interpretation of scripture.
There is a wide gulf between the current state of an organism whose ancestors first appeared on the scene some six million years ago and a species evolving consciousness from a formless void in just 6k years.
Again, why don’t you just invoke the magic you believe in and have done with it?
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
