Sorry for taking so long to answer your post. I've been very busy lately
simple writes:
I accept reason, documentation, evidence, and there is no reasonable doubt that the second world war happened, or that I really had a mother. We have much good solid evidences, including things we can date, like videos, books, birth certificates, etc.
I know you accept these things. But the point is that a lastthursdayist might just argue that
all these things happened before the big change that happened last thursday, and that all this evidence cannot be interpred with our current interpretations. For instance: "Sure you have a belly button, but we do not know what that means because we don't know what kind of phenomenon might create a belly button in the world before the big change that happened last thursday".
The only difference between your point of view and that of a lastthursdayist's is that you put your big change a little further back (not a relevant difference)
The problem with either point of view is not that they advocate that there was a big change. The problem lies in the fact that these views also advocate that the big change was seamless. How could such a huge world change be seamless?
By doing that these point of views create a water tight boundary around them where oposig views cannot break into (Sure a safe place to be, but grown up people that need a security blancket does not make a prety sight). And that comes at the cost of bringing us to a logical bog from which no further progress can be made.
simple writes:
We don't have any of this for before the flood. We have the bible saying a lot of things that mean it all had to be different to be true. Like water above the earth. It can't happen in the present laws of physics, we would cook. Trees can't grow in a week now. Man can't live forever, or a sun even. The flood waters can not be taken off the planet under current laws, barring some miracle. Ans on and on it goes. Same with the future, we can't have a gols city the size of the mmon land gently on earth, from space. Gravity would kick in. We can't have 12 different fruits on the same tree, a different one growing every soingle month of the year. Etc.
You commit the glaring mistake of asumming that the genesis must be interpreted literally. I know other books where you can find animals that speek. The hare and the Tortoise, for instance. Books like these are great tools for teaching kids valueable life lessons, but are not to be read literally.
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