God created Adam and Eve as adults, and the animals and plants mature, wouldn't it make sense that God would create a mature earth? That's why I don't see the point in the age of the earth debate.
2007-03-23 05:54:08 · 11 answers · asked by real illuminati(Matt) 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yep, yep.
2007-03-23 05:59:48 · answer #1 · answered by Mr Marc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the earth was created in it's maturity - the earth's spirit has matured over time and the proof of this 'aging' is in the societies that inhabit this planet. Looking back through history I think it's safe to make the assumption that the earth was created young, given all the greenspace, the pure waters etc, where now these things are being depleted. Although I believe that there is a cycle to it where all things die to be born again, earth included. As far as the age of earth debate I think people just get too analytical of these things and forget that the overall importance of the life we live today is purely to make the world a better place not to place a number on that which we do not know or understand. My two cents...
2007-03-23 06:03:54 · answer #2 · answered by JD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The age debate is critical, because truth is critical. Always has been and always will be. The fact that this is not a debate at all in many parts of the globe, nor throughout all disciplines of the scientific community, should be indicative of where truth lies. No God would "fake it", making geologists from Lyell (~1830) on down see an ancient planet. Like it or not, we're living on a rock around 4.6 billion years old which took ~50my to form.
And to more directly respond, the planet was not "mature" (by any definition I see) when it was young. We know by the lack of fossil evidence in places like the Canadian Shield that there was no life (or extraordinarily fragile life) back beyond ~4.1 bya, & life was very simplistic (prokaryotes) from then to ~3.1 bya.
Still more telling, multicellularity only arose around ~950mya, and life remained microscopic until ~600mya. So to attempt a claim of "mature" when these early lifeforms could hardly be seen for an incredible ~3.1 billion years is just way off base.
2007-03-23 05:56:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because people actually believe that the Genesis account is meant to described how the World was created. The purpose of the account, is truly to identify WHO the Creator of the World is and WHAT is his character like.
When you read Genesis try approaching it with the WHY questions instead of the HOW questions. Your faith will be deepened.
I personally don't understand why there is an age of the Earth debate either. I mean the evidence is overwhelming that the earth is much older than 6-10 thousand years old.
2007-03-23 06:01:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It also broaches the question "why create an obvious history, prior to 'Adam and Eve'". Just to fool us?
It also broaches the question, "How can you tell if we weren't created three seconds ago, complete with full memories". This is basically indistiguishable from the Mature Earth/With history creation scenario.
2007-03-23 06:00:16 · answer #5 · answered by Radagast97 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People and animals evolved over a long time. Doesn't it follow that the earth has to be old to support that evolution timespan?
You are correct in that there is no point to the debate, but only for the reason that it won't resolve anything.
2007-03-23 05:59:36 · answer #6 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't think God created a mature earth. I don't think he created anything else, for that matter.
2007-03-23 05:59:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he did, But he gave man free will and well we screwed it up over the years.
2007-03-23 05:58:20 · answer #8 · answered by gsxr650 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he created it during it's adolescensce
2007-03-23 05:57:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
do people look mature to you?
2007-03-23 05:59:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋