Hi Aaron,
You any kin to Moses? pun intended
Welcome to EvC.
Aaron writes:
The Old Earth "book" is actually an excerpt from my main book. I make my case using:
1. Living organisms older than 4,500 years (the supposed date of the Nochaic flood), with many much older than 6,000 years.
Why not just use what the Hebrew text says.
The universe and earth are a lot older than anyone on this site believes it is.
But maybe you can correct my thinking about what the Word says.
I read in Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning" no one has ever been able to tell me when the beginning was. Some scientist tell me it was 20 billion years ago. Some have reached a consensus of 13.7 billion years ago. Not too many years ago they were telling me it was about 8 billion years ago.
I have made the statement in other threads I believe the heavens and the earth have always existed just not in the form we see it today. Einstein was right it is eternal.
There is some kind of stupid rule that energy cannot be created or destroyed. In fact I read in Scientific America, "The conservation of energy is an absolute law".
Then Alan Guth comes along and gives us cosmic inflation and the inflationary universe. In which all energy needed to create the universe passed through a phase of exponential expansion soon after the Big Bang that was driven by a positive vacuum energy density.
Now we got a zero energy universe.
That has to be held together by some unknown energy that we don't know what it is so we call it dark energy.
Maybe you can clue me in to what existed at T=0 that 1 billionth of a second was that expanding universe. Nobody has ever been able to explain to me where whatever that was began to exist as there was an absence of anything.
So it would be nice if someone could come along and make sense of all this.
God Bless
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