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It's age is just right.

It was, indeed. It doesn't, however, say that it happened instantly in human terms. To God, it was the same as instant, however, because all things, from the beginning to the end of time, are laid out before him like a tapestry. But that's only from his perspective, being outside of time itself. He created time for us to live in. He's not himself restricted by it, although he spent 33 years under its governance.

This whole discussion is fraught with complete and total bias on both sides of the argument. The fact is the bible speaks in generalizations of life, belief in God, and how to live our lives in order to please and praise God. In that, I believe in most of the bible but I also believe the words in the bible were never meant to be taken literally, in essence they believed in teaching by way of parables, which are not factual as much as they are life affirming.

Personally, I believe in what the bible teaches us, but I also believe in the science that we have developed- through God's hand and our development over the many millennia humans have inhabited this earth- even beyond the creatures that were here before us- and the nothingness that existed for many hundreds of thousands of years after the earth's forming. The Big Bang is just another example of our inability to understand huge cosmic events so we pretend we understand and continue to explore meaning by putting forth theories and the proving if they are right or wrong. Why do you think we have continued to explore space in more and more detail over the years? The one question I ask anyone who tries to explain away the beginning of the universe by saying it was the Big Bang is this- "where did the material for the Big Bang come from? No matter how small or large the central core of the Big Bang was at the beginning, it had to come from somewhere."

I believe God was involved in the creation of this universe but He works in ways we may never understand and in a time frame we aren't able to understand. The universe may be 14 billion years old, or much older- we don't have enough understanding to completely judge these things yet. But as a working theory it makes sense according to what evidence we have accumulated at the moment. To discount the speed of light, carbon dating, and scientific theories that try to explain these things out of hand because of your total belief in the bible as a scientific or historical reference is just plain being obtuse and argumentative. Close minded people have held back scientific discovery for most of recorded history. Look what happened to Galileo when he proposed the earth wasn't the center of the universe...

Absolutely! On the contrary, I have been used by God to bring many to Him on the job over the decades. I don't understand why you are afraid of honest science. Some of the Christians I met came to Jesus because of science. Like me, they never gave religion a thought.

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No. Because creationists are some of the most if not the most close-minded people on earth.

"Evolutionists" as you call them, are not.

Of course not. They used dating methods which assume they know how much parent product was there in the beginning, which they can't know. They assumed they know how much daughter product was there in the beginning, which they can't know. They assumed no product was leached out or brought in, which they can't know. If the dating was reliable, all the labs would have arrived at about the same age, no matter which system they employed.

Again your philosophical escape mechanism is failing. God created time for man's use. For those with out a preconceived bias, the Genis text is quite clear. Six days and everything was created. 1,656 years later God flooded the whole world, as evidenced by any western movie of the Southwest.

"... as evidenced by any western movie ..."

Now we know how you got so confused. You get your scientific knowledge from Western movies.

What's in that pole you are smoking?

Take a bow. You made laugh. I think I will watch another western I recorded yesterday.

Ringman, are you resorting to name-calling now?

You're better than that.

Amen

Y’all got sucked past the Ringman radius…

Known half-lives of radioactive isotopes are ‘known.’ Atomic fission and atomic fusion are reality, and knowing the half-lives of the radioactive isotopes involved helped make these discoveries and technologies possible. Medical linear accelerators and nuclear medicine are reality, and knowing the half-lives of the radioactive isotopes involved helped make these discoveries and technologies possible.

Carbon-14, potassium-argon, and uranium-lead are all accurate methods of dating objects specific to their particular time frames.

Some folks’ grasp on their religious beliefs is so tenuous and so shaky that they’re afraid the least little puff of knowledge will blow it away. If your belief in God depends upon the universe not being billions of years old, then you’re in deeper trouble than you can imagine, oh Ye of little faith.

Evolution says nothing of how the earth began, not does is say anything about how the universe will end. Those are covered by different scientific disciplines.

WRONG!!

it is do-able but waaay down the chart of preferred allocation. There is still dna, tissue typing and several criteria in the qualifying matrices of compatibility
Ethnicity to like ethnicity will rank higher as to best suitability.

The only “perfect” match is an identical twin sibling.

Be careful with your generalizations, someone is always lying in wait to call you out on your bullshît

Ringman's posts are what's called a "target-rich environment. "

It's a 6,000 year-old black hole.

Unlike you heathens, I KNOW how the pyramids were built.