Young Earth Creationists

[gabosaurus]

To quote the great Bill Hicks:

"I have a one word question to all who believe that the world is 6,000 years old -- Dinosaurs"

[Hobbit]

To quote the great Bill Hicks:

"I have a one word question to all who believe that the world is 6,000 years old -- Dinosaurs"

If you believe that an all-powerful God created the whole thing, then you can believe that that same God could put in dinosaur fossils and make them appear to be millions upon millions of years old. Why He would do this is beyond me, but then again, he's God, and I actually believe in a 4 billion year old Earth.

[glockmail]

Why not just write "age" instead of "day" then?

Why do great writers and artists do anything?

[gabosaurus]

If you believe that an all-powerful God created the whole thing, then you can believe that that same God could put in dinosaur fossils and make them appear to be millions upon millions of years old. Why He would do this is beyond me, but then again, he's God, and I actually believe in a 4 billion year old Earth.

So you think God is being a prankster? God is F*CKING WITH OUR MINDS!
Hobbit, you never cease to amuse me.

[Lightning Waltz]

If you believe that an all-powerful God created the whole thing, then you can believe that that same God could put in dinosaur fossils and make them appear to be millions upon millions of years old. Why He would do this is beyond me, but then again, he's God, and I actually believe in a 4 billion year old Earth.

If you believe in the guy with the red and white suit that gives away presents, then you'll believe in the flying raindeer....

[Hobbit]

If you believe in the guy with the red and white suit that gives away presents, then you'll believe in the flying raindeer....

That's a little offensive, but yes, it's actually a good analogy.

So you think God is being a prankster? God is F*CKING WITH OUR MINDS!
Hobbit, you never cease to amuse me.

No, I think the Earth is 4 billion years old and was once populated by dinosaurs. I'm just saying that if you assume God created the world, then it isn't that much of a stretch to think that God created it with signs of age already built in...elaborate signs of age.

I, personally, believe that God is a fun-loving God (we were created in his image, right), and that he created the world and then had fun for a few eons messing around with those really cool-looking pre-historic life forms, and when he'd had enough of that, just an ice age here, a warming period there, toss in some continental drift, and presto! The Earth's now ready for the human race.

I'd also like to point out that the 6000 year timeline is also pretty unreliable, since it's based on the geneologies and the wording on the geneologies doesn't necessitate that each 'step' in the geneology be only one generation. There could be many thousands of years unaccounted for in there.

[Nuc]

Why would a "God" create the world, state that it was created in a set time period and give evidence that contradicts that same time period that "God" said it created the world in?

Seems like a twisted "God" to me...

You can claim it's a test of "faith"...I suppose. But, I think I'd prefer the simple explanation.

Yes, i have actually met Christians who claim the dinosaurs never existed, that God created fossils to confuse humans and cause them to doubt.

Do they ever stop to think that this makes Christianity look idiotic?

[glockmail]

Yes, i have actually met Christians who claim the dinosaurs never existed, that God created fossils to confuse humans and cause them to doubt.

Do they ever stop to think that this makes Christianity look idiotic?

I have actually met Liberals who claim the dinosaurs never existed, that God created fossils to confuse humans and cause them to doubt.

Do they ever stop to think that this makes Liberals look idiotic?

[diuretic]

I have actually met Liberals who claim the dinosaurs never existed, that God created fossils to confuse humans and cause them to doubt.

Do they ever stop to think that this makes Liberals look idiotic?

Probably not. They probably think that no-one is dumb enough to generalise from a few nutbars to a whole population.

[Nuc]

I have actually met Liberals who claim the dinosaurs never existed, that God created fossils to confuse humans and cause them to doubt.

Do they ever stop to think that this makes Liberals look idiotic?

You are a genius. If you ever start your own message board let me know. I'll be the first person to sign up.

[glockmail]

Probably not. They probably think that no-one is dumb enough to generalise from a few nutbars to a whole population.

So unlike Nuc, you understand the sarcasm behind my post.

[diuretic]

When I first saw the title of the thread, "Young Earth Creationists" I thought it was about Young Creationists, you know, like the Young wing of political parties? I thought, jeez, all these loonies with the stare, you know the stare? It's sort of like when you're walking through LAX and some nutbar tries to get you to take that "free personality test" and you KNOW it's one of those fucking lunatic Scientologist freaks and the only way you can get them to leave you alone is to tell them to fuck off or youi'll kill them?

I thought it was going to be like that.

I was wrong.

It was worse.

At the end.

[diuretic]

So unlike Nuc, you understand the sarcasm behind my post.

No. The point of sarcasm is it doesn't have to be understood, just recognised.

[glockmail]

No. The point of sarcasm is it doesn't have to be understood, just recognised.

It's really not all that difficult to understand. Nuc was making a sweeping generalization, nearly phobic.

[diuretic]

It's really not all that difficult to understand. Nuc was making a sweeping generalization, nearly phobic.

I'll check, back in a minute.