If Earth is 4.5 billion years old and humans are 200-250,000 years old, what was god doing all that time?

Question

Man, he must have been bored! He must have just sat around twiddling his godly thumbs. Yeah, this makes sense to me!

Answer 1

Apart from the fact that God is just a fake creation of man, and that religious theory suggests that God wrote the Bible for humans, but if God genuinely existed, he probably wrote thousands of Bibles for other intelligent life-forms.

The universe is about 15 to 20 billion years old.
Our solar system is about 4.5 billion years old.
Humans have been around for less than 1 million years.
Therefore all human Religions, Gods, Bibles have been around for less than 1 million years.

Since the universe consists of billions of billions of stars, there will be billions of stars capable of supporting life on other planets orbiting them.

The universe has been around for more than 99.99% of the total time and humans for less than 0.01% of the time. On a universal scale, humans have only been around for a blink of an eye. Most other life in the universe has been around much longer. Science would suggest the probability of intelligent life existing on another planet elsewhere in our universe is over 99%.

Religion suggests that God created the universe and wrote the Bible for humans. So for the other intelligent life in our universe which has been around far longer than humans, God must have produced thousands of other Bibles for them.

Although God doesn't exist, just to keep religious believers happy, let's just say God was busy with other more intelligent life, and has left humans to fend for themselves because they're all such idiots.

Answer 2

The first part that is wrong is ASSUMING the earth is 4.5 billion years old and humans are 2-250,000. That is taking man's belief...not fact...and there wasn't anyone here to prove it! Every single dating method man uses to show how old something is disagrees with others. They just use one that comes up with the answer they want.
I believe in 6 LITERAL days and God rested on the 7th. Any other interpretation, gap theory, millions of years, evolution etc is solely man's OPINION and NOT scripture. Evolution doesn't hold water. Evolution is solely dependent on the big bang theory. The big bang and evolution together can not answer...
where the two pieces of matter that collided came from;
what the ACTUAL probability of two of these correct pieces of matter meeting at the right time, at the right place, at the right speed, at the right angle, with the right atmospheric or lack thereof to produce things as we know it;
how a cell in the ocean morphed itself into a fishlike creature;
how this fishlike creature began to breathe air and why it would want to do so;
how and why it decided to go on land;
how it morphed itself into all the different species;
how out of this it was able to morph into a human being which is the only creature on earth with the ability to speak logically, reason, and feel emotion;
how plants survived before they "learned" photosenthesis;
why the holy grail of evolution (Berkley) says on its site that this is what they BELIEVE to be true but is not fact;

All scientific answers are man's best GUESS. There is NO absolute fact, try as he might and as smart as he thinks he is. People think since we get in a car and it takes us where we are going (sometimes) and you can turn on a computer and do most anything (sometimes) man can put a date on things billions of years ago based on things they "think" happened. Problem is, man makes mistakes and evolution is just one of the many.
I have a choice. I can fold in to your way of thinking so I don't get made fun of and then have to answer to God, OR I can allow you to scoff at me and then let YOU answer to him. I choose the latter. Atleast I can say you have been told, you will have no excuse.
There is only ONE True God.
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Answer 3

Good question. First, try to understand that God is not a man. IT is a Creative Energy rather, without form. 2. Creation didn't take place in a day or days or months, but billions of years. Evolution take time too, a lot of time. There was a time when earth was without life, then came the time when life forms began to show up. until it was ready for human inhabitat. Creation did take place as the bible claims, ie, in few days. It doesn't make sense.

Answer 4

There is a theory that since God is timeless, the seven days mentioned in Genesis could be interpreted as ages rather than rotations of the Earth. Thus God created Man sometime during the sixth age/day and God is now silent because we are currently still living in the seventh age/day. Something I read somewhere, but the theory does seem to make natural science and the Bible a little more congruent if it were true.

Answer 5

What's the possibility that we are not the first humans on this rock? There are ruins off the southern coast of Japan, Yonaguni Island, that had to have been built when the area was above ground. That area has been under water since long before man, as we know them, or any other mammals appeared on earth. Just food for thought for all those with all the answers.
Vaya con DIOS

Answer 6

Okay, 1.) If you believe in Christianity, the earth is, at very most, 20,000 years old [for young-earth-theory believers like myself, who take the Bible at its word]. Meaning, God had time to make everything in 6 days. No contradiction there.

2.) If you are a Christian, and an old earth theory believer, then He probably spent the time gardening, and breeding the animals, and such. (However, to be honest, the old earth theory puzzles me as well).

3.) If you are an atheist, you believe there is no God, and you have nothing better to do than trying to put the cart in front of the horse, and wonder why it doesn't work that way. Go find something a little more constructive to do.

Answer 7

Even better: Why are Christians willing to spend their lives looking for little loop-holes in the scientifically established
age of the Earth (4.55 billion years), but find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by pre-historic tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that the Earth is a couple of generations old.

Answer 8

no much, He started the Big Bang 14-15 Billion years ago, and everything was set in motion right after. He's been MIA since.

Answer 9

Churning up the primordial sludge to create life. The moon used to be a lot closer to Earth millions of years ago and moves an inch and a half further away every year. When it was very close to Earth it made the tides huge like indescribably huge, thousands of feet high. The waves would crash hundreds of miles inland and scrape the surface of the rocks. When the dirt and minerals, and vitamins would mix with the sulfuric waters microbial life forms were then born. Understand this took millions of years,but here we are and we are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

To God thousand years is a day so time passed by for Him differently . 2nd Peter 3:8

Answer 11

perhaps he was still creating? after all who was there documenting how long Gods days are? (the bible says God finished on the 6th day and the 7th he rested) well how did the first day go by? if a day is defined as the earths rotation, and a year being its rotation around the sun, then how persay, was a day measured without the sun and earth there at first? (first me made light and dark, later he made sun moon and stars)