Originally posted by DoctorScribbles
Well, not really. I said approximately 6000 years. The universe is five days older than Adam, from the literal point of view. Only when literalism is abandoned is the time between the beginning and Adam open to speculation.
Don't you think there is maybe the possibility people who think
the earth is only a few thou old are among the most paranoid
people on the planet? To look at, say, the Grand Canyon, and
come to the conclusion God made all this stuff complete with
fossils just to confuse mankind into thinking the universe is
billions of years old but of course this individual knows full well
because he analyzed the bible, that the earth, the sky, the stars,
the milky way are only 6,000 year old illusions. I think people who
live their lives thinking that are paranoid delusional, functionally
insane. You have to ask yourself, why would a god do something
so profoundly stupid? All that went before would be totally meaningless
because the charade is meant for humans of the past couple
thousand years only, anything before that is just a big prop.
How stupid and delusional can these kind of people possibly be?
To view something like Niagra falls, the Grand Canyon with its
incredible thousands of separate layers of exposed sedimentation,
How could someone in their right mind conclude its all a prop?
People like that are spiritually dead inside, no more use to the world
than burrs on a cactus.