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You sound like someone who has been brainwashed yourself. Apparently Christ has done nothing for you, or he is trying now and you aren't listening.
Did you ever consider this: God knew that mankind and the large dinosaurs could not live together if he was to fulfill prophecy in order to save mankind. So he allowed the dinosaur to fade away. The other thing is that in allowing them to fade away he left reminders of their existence for us to see that there were once huge beasts that roamed the earth. So he created fossils.
As for the time of decay for bones, consider what you just said. They don't last long. But being buried and away from oxygen the shelf life of almost everything extends to unbelievable time. Take the west coast for instance, petrified wood can be found along the shore lines from trees that died only a few hundred years ago. How then can you NOT see that fossils are mineral replaced bone and can be only a few thousand years old?
It sounds like you're mixed up in a cult belief where the members teach and refuse to acknowledge ALL of Gods abilities. Do not confuse what people say about the earth and evolution with the facts of once living creatures. If you believe in God, believe in all creation.
Did you ever consider this: God knew that mankind and the large dinosaurs could not live together if he was to fulfill prophecy in order to save mankind. So he allowed the dinosaur to fade away. The other thing is that in allowing them to fade away he left reminders of their existence for us to see that there were once huge beasts that roamed the earth. So he created fossils.
As for the time of decay for bones, consider what you just said. They don't last long. But being buried and away from oxygen the shelf life of almost everything extends to unbelievable time. Take the west coast for instance, petrified wood can be found along the shore lines from trees that died only a few hundred years ago. How then can you NOT see that fossils are mineral replaced bone and can be only a few thousand years old?
It sounds like you're mixed up in a cult belief where the members teach and refuse to acknowledge ALL of Gods abilities. Do not confuse what people say about the earth and evolution with the facts of once living creatures. If you believe in God, believe in all creation.
Well..
I know if you look at the speed mountains grow.. and rocks .. if you just take the speed they are at now.. and then project it backwards.. then you do get millions of years alot of the time.. BUT
The huge (and mistaken) assumption of this.. is that it has always been growing/ageing at the same rate..
Catastrophes, disasters, flooding etc etc.. all majorly change landscapes and growth rates for the world..
So to start with.. a mountain could be formed in like 20 years and then stabilise in growth.. and be then rising at a miniscule rate every year thereafter.
So uniformitarianism.. doesn't stack up with observable history.. and millions of years are not necessary..
Anyhoo.. what I believe
God created the Earth in 6 literal days.. and the earth is around 6,000-10,000 years old. Guess you call it a biblical creationist.
More reasons why:
All over the world there are deposits of sediment that should be far far deeper than they are if millions of years of sedimentary deposit is assumed.
The fossil record.. the data used to support millions of years .. the fossils used.. are sparse and incomplete.. what data there is can also be used to support Creationism
Trees standing fossilised thru supposed millions of years of layers? This happens all over the world in cliff side faces.. where you see trees standing up right through layers of rock. These cliff faces cannot be millions of years old.. and had to be formed quickly by catastrophe to have trees quickly buried like that.
Barry Settlefield.. has been calculating the speed of light using all the measurements from history.. and he has found that the speed has been slowing down. The rate at which it has been slowing down.. the decay curve.. not only matches around 6,000 years from the bible.. going back until the speed becomes infinite... but the decay curve also matches measurements from other decay rates from nature for different elements. Apparently.. this was ridiculed at first by many.. but recently more and more data has been gathered that supports it.
The Egyptians pyramid..
Can't remember exactly which one.. but one of pyramids has an area for light to come into it .. built deliberately so that the Pharoah could walk out at just the right moment as the light was coming in .. and he would be bathed in this light that seemed supernatural..
Now.. this can be used as a measurement of time for the day.. but when people knew of this.. the measurements don't add up.. and there is a gap in timing. The time that the light comes in to this pyramid can only be accounted for when their is a tilt in the earth's axis!
So people calculated back when this tilt must have happened.. and it matches around the time given for the flood from the bible.
Anyway.. the point of all this.. is to show that 6,000 year old earth is not a crazy thing.. or stupid.. but that there is considerable.. and more evidence building up.. that support this age.
I know if you look at the speed mountains grow.. and rocks .. if you just take the speed they are at now.. and then project it backwards.. then you do get millions of years alot of the time.. BUT
The huge (and mistaken) assumption of this.. is that it has always been growing/ageing at the same rate..
Catastrophes, disasters, flooding etc etc.. all majorly change landscapes and growth rates for the world..
So to start with.. a mountain could be formed in like 20 years and then stabilise in growth.. and be then rising at a miniscule rate every year thereafter.
So uniformitarianism.. doesn't stack up with observable history.. and millions of years are not necessary..
Anyhoo.. what I believe
God created the Earth in 6 literal days.. and the earth is around 6,000-10,000 years old. Guess you call it a biblical creationist.
More reasons why:
All over the world there are deposits of sediment that should be far far deeper than they are if millions of years of sedimentary deposit is assumed.
The fossil record.. the data used to support millions of years .. the fossils used.. are sparse and incomplete.. what data there is can also be used to support Creationism
Trees standing fossilised thru supposed millions of years of layers? This happens all over the world in cliff side faces.. where you see trees standing up right through layers of rock. These cliff faces cannot be millions of years old.. and had to be formed quickly by catastrophe to have trees quickly buried like that.
Barry Settlefield.. has been calculating the speed of light using all the measurements from history.. and he has found that the speed has been slowing down. The rate at which it has been slowing down.. the decay curve.. not only matches around 6,000 years from the bible.. going back until the speed becomes infinite... but the decay curve also matches measurements from other decay rates from nature for different elements. Apparently.. this was ridiculed at first by many.. but recently more and more data has been gathered that supports it.
The Egyptians pyramid..
Can't remember exactly which one.. but one of pyramids has an area for light to come into it .. built deliberately so that the Pharoah could walk out at just the right moment as the light was coming in .. and he would be bathed in this light that seemed supernatural..
Now.. this can be used as a measurement of time for the day.. but when people knew of this.. the measurements don't add up.. and there is a gap in timing. The time that the light comes in to this pyramid can only be accounted for when their is a tilt in the earth's axis!
So people calculated back when this tilt must have happened.. and it matches around the time given for the flood from the bible.
Anyway.. the point of all this.. is to show that 6,000 year old earth is not a crazy thing.. or stupid.. but that there is considerable.. and more evidence building up.. that support this age.
I personally belive that the eath is somewhat maybe 6000+ years old. Now i no it may sound very small but I am still in school and learning these things, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Now the reason for me thinking this is I was taught in Geography that the world was made four billion years ago. Now to me - i highly doubt it - the teacher went on to say that Britian used to be where Africa is now. But after I left that class to go to History, my teacher there informed me of the No-Mads - cave men - these people crossed over the frozen English Channel from France - to Britian.
I am not sayin either are wrong, I think that there is a certian area of contradiction between the two classes. But anywayz...Jesus was on this earth 2009 years ago. And i belive that the world was not very old when he came down from the hevens. Maybe 4000, for most sience/history books say that Alexander the Great was alive 400 years before Christ was on Earth.
That is my rather lenghty reason as to why I think the world is only about 6000 years old.
I am not sayin either are wrong, I think that there is a certian area of contradiction between the two classes. But anywayz...Jesus was on this earth 2009 years ago. And i belive that the world was not very old when he came down from the hevens. Maybe 4000, for most sience/history books say that Alexander the Great was alive 400 years before Christ was on Earth.
That is my rather lenghty reason as to why I think the world is only about 6000 years old.
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