RE: The Seven-Day Universe - Part 3: Physical Evidence for a Young Earth
Great unbias post mate. I like your humble approach in writing about this. The thing I find is often left out in these debates is that, what if God just chose to build age into his creation. That is, God if he is all knowing and all powerful, could have just created the world with aging/history built in. Just think about it. Where Adam was created, was he created as a baby or matured adult? I tend to think he was created as an adult. Similarly, during the 6 days of creation, God could have simply designed everything with age built in already. Of course, none of us can be totally certain about how God did it and his reasoning, but God has been faithful with every other aspect of his word, with the fulfilment of so many prophercies, so I trust his word to be accurate here too. Just some food for thought.
““As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:9)
Hello, friend...
Thanks for stopping by, and for your thoughtful comment.
I'm well aware of the "apparent age" argument. Yes indeed, God did create Adam as a full-grown adult. When he was only minutes old, to us he would have appeared to be twenty years old or more.
However, that particular argument is not helpful from a "scientific" standpoint because (in the case of the age of the earth) there is no experimental way to verify or falsify it. And so, Did God do things that way?
We will simply have to wait to ask him... ;)