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Message 4 of 37 (92270)
03-13-2004 4:44 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Navy10E
03-13-2004 4:17 PM


There is a fundamental problem with your argument. Creating Adam as an adult might have had practical benefits - but would Adam have been created with evidence of a past above and beyond his existence as an adult ? Is it reasonable to suppose that, say, God would create Adam with a scar from an accident that never happened ?
The Earth and the universe are full of such thinngs - fossils, light from stars that exploded tens of thousands of years ago - and more - ancient meteorite craters, the burned out remains of stars the lava from ancient volcanic eruptions (check out the Siberian and Deccan Traps). The Earth and the Universe are not just "adults" they have the evidence of a long history. Is that evidence a deception ?

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Message 26 of 37 (92359)
03-14-2004 4:26 AM
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03-14-2004 12:56 AM


No, the Flood does not explain the fossil record. It can't even explain the geology of the rocks, let alone the order in the fossil record.
Nor is it reasonable to suppose that God created stars which can only be seen with the most powerful instruments we have just so we could look at them.
And I don't think you appreciate the magnitude of compressing much of the Earth's vulcanism into a single year. In itself the Deccan Traps eruption was a major catastrophe - far bigger than anything in recorded history. The Siberian Traps are even bigger. Both sets of eruptions are disastrous enough to be considered possible causes of a mass extinction event.

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Message 33 of 37 (92441)
03-14-2004 4:13 PM
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03-14-2004 3:25 PM


On the issue, suppose God assembled the universe to teach faith in Christ and not science. If so, then He is not a deciever or a trickster - people are simply attempting to extract something that is not there and was not intended to be there.
If you meant to write "Bible" rather than "Universe" that would make sense.
But as written it certainly does not make sense - our observations of the Universe by necessity teach us about the Universe - and many of those observatiosn tell us nothing about Jesus. If God made those observations misleading then God is a deceiver.

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