(February 6, 2014 at 9:41 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Young in comparison to what? I believe that if you start with the axiom that God does not exist you will arrive at an age for the Earth somewhere around 4.5 billion years (for now, this number will probably eclipse five billion soon). On the other hand, if you start with the axiom that God does exist and that the Bible is what it claims to be (as I do) then you will arrive at the conclusion that the Earth is just over 6,000 years old. Same evidence; two very different conclusions. Both of these positions are far more consistent than a Christian who believes it is billions of years old or a materialist who believes it is thousands of years old.
Hey Stat, glad your surgery went alright and you're doing okay. You do understand that the age of the earth doesn't speak to a god actually existing, and so you can examine the evidence for it without beginning from a position on the non/existence of god, right?
Given this possibility, where the question of divine origins doesn't even enter into the picture, what conclusion would you say one would draw from the available evidence?
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