This earth may be 4.55 billion years old, but it has only been in existence for 6100.
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(@BoxerShorts) My guess would be some kind of Gosseanism (you know, God created the earth recently but with the appeareance of old age), but it is certainly a contradiction in the way he expressed it, so I vote for Non-Contradiction Award too.
Alejandro is right on the money. It's a very badly worded rehash of Gosse's Omphalos theory.
Logically irrefutable, totally pointless (as, by the same argument, the world could appear to be 4.5 billion years old but only have been in existance since 5 minutes ago).
The usual theological objection is that this theory says "God tells lies!", which - if accepted - potentially undermines every other belief you might have in him.
The Omphalos theory was dropped by theologians as soon as it was created. Once you assume God lies like that, it leads to the possibility of "Last Thursdayism" - the idea that the earth was created last Thursday, with not only the appearance of great age, but also with all our memories of everything before last Thursday implanted in us.
The Pastafarians have a slightly different, but equally irrefutable, theory: the Flying Spaghetti Monster alters our perception, rather than the universe itself. He changes the results of our experiments so we're fooled into thinking the earth is old when it's not, and He plants dinosaur fossils to keep scientists entertained.
I didn't know AV1611VET was an Old Earth Creationist.
This is actually a pretty clever bit of double think that allows you to accept both geologic science and the Bible at the same time by saying that since God is omnipotent, why couldn't he make a world already billions of years old when he created it? After all, he made Adam and Eve as full fledged adults, not infants.
Don't get me wrong, it's still ludicrous, but at least he isn't trying to deny the science behind the age of the earth anymore.
@Sandman: "he made Adam and Eve as full fledged adults, not infants."
That's why the "false history" theory is called the Omphalos theory. Omphalos means navel, and it starts with the question of whether Adam and Eve had one. The theory says yes they did, and the first trees had rings, etc.; therefore, God must have created everything with a false history already in place.
I imagine this is what fundamentalists do all the time: compartmentalize information that doesn't agree with their beliefs. Of course, most people I think do it today re: The Bible vs. science, but fundamentalists are possibly the best at it.
Aaah yes, the good old, I'll concede your irrefutable point in a vain attempt to get you to accept my utter rubbish.
That only works when the two aren't related, and when people merely run away to avoid talking to you!
ERROR. DIVIDED BY CUCUMBER. PLEASE REBOOT UNIVERSE AND RESTART.
ERROR> DIVIDED BY CUCUMBER> PLEASE REBOOT UNIVERSE AND RESTART>
ERROROR> DIVIDIDED BY DCUCUCMBER > PLESE REBOOT EUNIVERSESE ANSD RESSSTART> RSESTATR RESTSTSTSSTS>
FATAL ERRORRR> FATRRATL ERROREER>
*universe melts*
I woke up this morning with Cambrian sludge on my hands.
Yesterday is already last Thursday.
Coincidence? I think not.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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