The notion that the Earth was a blank void just 600 years ago (and counting) is without merit. I have this cool sedimentary rock, filled with brachiopod fossils that's clearly a shallow-water marine ecosystem from the Devonian. Cutting that is a granite that dates to 350 Ma. The granite produces a contact aureole that extends several hundred meters out into the sedimentary rock, so the relationship is pretty unambiguous. That entire mess has been folded, shoved up onto land, and had several kilometers eroded off the top down to the present-day surface. There are at least five different processes preserved by this one small piece of the map, any one of which would take a few million years. I have a few options:
(1) A Bronze Age myth isn't meant to be taken as scientific fact and The Bible wasn't meant to be read literally. Many Christians would agree with this and it strikes me as the obvious answer.
(2) Everything we think we know about material science and physics is wrong and these processes can be run at speed. Seems unlikely given the energies involved.
(3) All of Creation is one vast fraud and no examination of it will reveal anything true. This says something Interesting about The Creator.
(4) The joke's on the Christians. The answer above is correct, but it isn't there god. It's Anansi and he invented white evangelicals just to fuck with them.
(1) A Bronze Age myth isn't meant to be taken as scientific fact and The Bible wasn't meant to be read literally. Many Christians would agree with this and it strikes me as the obvious answer.
(2) Everything we think we know about material science and physics is wrong and these processes can be run at speed. Seems unlikely given the energies involved.
(3) All of Creation is one vast fraud and no examination of it will reveal anything true. This says something Interesting about The Creator.
(4) The joke's on the Christians. The answer above is correct, but it isn't there god. It's Anansi and he invented white evangelicals just to fuck with them.
