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quote:Originally posted by dearestnight_falcon:
Please tell me why it is that God would create a universe, that, from all observations that we make, appears to be very fucking old.
Why the hell would God try to trick us?
to "test" us?
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You bring up an interesting point.
In 1857, English naturalist Philip Gosse, a early opponent of evolution, came up with explanation for the fossil and geographical evidence supporting evolution:
He answered this question. "Did Adam and Eve have navels? (Greek
omphalos)?"
Since the navel is a sign of natural birth (from the cutting of the umbilical cord), Adam and Eve should have been created without one. But if Adam and Eve were both the model of the human being, they should both have one.
Gosse concluded Adam and Eve both had navels because they were created as if they had been born from a womb. He then suggested that they had also been created with
memories of a childhood that never happened so that he would be a "normal" human being.
This speculation raised the possibility that all the physical evidence of the earth's age was created in 4004 B.C. so that the earth appeared millions of years old.
Why such a joke would be played on humanity was never explained by Gosse (who attributed it to a test of faith) and neither was Gosse able to answer the simplest question asked by critics: "How do we know that the entire universe wasn't created five minutes ago with all of human history, including the Biblical account of Creation, embedded in our memories as if it really happened?"
This just shows you that Creationism has been under attack since 1857, and even then it couldn't defend itself very well.
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