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Say what?
I'm not speaking for the person you addressed (Bowman), but the your last sentence in particular makes no sense to me.
You are the one with the time constraints. Specifically, you are stuck with the universe, earth, dinosaurs, and humans all being created 6,000 (which you stretch to 10000) years ago.
I'm not speaking for the person you addressed (Bowman), but the your last sentence in particular makes no sense to me.
You are the one with the time constraints. Specifically, you are stuck with the universe, earth, dinosaurs, and humans all being created 6,000 (which you stretch to 10000) years ago.
But if you accept the secular view of origins, that man was a late comer in the creation, then you have a totally different view of death and suffering. In your view, suffering and death came first, and sin followed. In your view, cancer and cannibalism and every other horrible thing we find in the fossil record pre-existed Adam's sin, and is to be considered "very good."
But that goes against God's word, and therefore is an attack on the authority of the Word of God.
Personally, I don't care much if the earth is billions or millions or hundreds of thousands years old. I don't care much if humans first appeared on the earth 10000 or 20000 or 100000 years ago. I'll go with what the preponderance of credible scientific evidence indicates.