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That's what I'm pointing out. We have a book where God creates the universe in six days, then have the genealogies adding up to something like 6000 years, depending on which you go with.
And then we have the universe we can look out and see, a universe that attests to billions of years. I don't see how you can make those two jive. If the universe appears to be billions of years old and the bible says that it's 6000, either the universe was created to appear much older than it is or the bible is wrong. Either way, God has lied to us.
It's more like this, is God lying if he created Adam as a fully formed adult male who looks to be about 25, but 5 years after creation he tells someone, "I created Adam 5 years ago?"
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No, but only because he would have had to have created Adam in his 20s. If you drop a newborn in the woods, it dies. If you drop a toddler in the woods, it dies. If you drop a child in the woods, it dies.
Even if you drop a teenager in the woods, he'll eventually get himself killed. The universe doesn't need to be created with the decay isotopes of uranium surrounding uranium in only exactly the amount that you would get if the Earth were 4.5 billion years old. There's no reason for that, and yet, here we are. The world is full of instances like that. The universe appears ancient in ways that only make sense in the case that the universe is ancient, or there's a trickster god trying to convince us that it is.
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