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Originally Posted by notofworks
So Pel, do you give any plausibility to my college-days view that "In the beginning, God created...." and He made it exactly as it appears complete with aged appearances, coal, diamonds, etc.?
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omphalos argument? No.
"Omphalos" is Latin for "belly button," as in "Did Adam have a belly button?"
For this theory to work we'd have to allow that Adam did have a scar on his abdomen (a navel) that gave the appearance that he had been in a womb prior to his birth/creation.
And, that he had the cross hatched patterns of wear on his teeth as if he had been chewing food for 30 years (or however "old" he was when he was created). Also, that he had the arterial sclerosis commensurate with a human being of that same age.
The trees all had rings - and not only that... they had the dead and decayed organic material around their roots that allow fungi to process nutrients into compounds that the trees can take up through their roots. Trees can't "eat" without fungi and the dead things the fungi live off of already in the soil.
God would have had to have place fossils in the rocks just to make it look like the earth had gone through billions of years of time. He would have had to go through every single one of the trillions and trillions upon trillions of mineral crystals and set the proportion of decayed isotopes in the proper ratio to the undecayed isotopes AND THEN...
... distributed these mineral crystals by layers in a complex pattern across the earth's surface to make it look like the earth was billions of years old AND that the surface of the earth had moved around, buckled and crumpled and was completely eroded away in places.
Why go through all of that trouble just to deceive us?
This question actually raises some very serious moral questions about the nature of God. Is he really an all knowing and all wise benevolent Creator Who actually wants the very best for His children? Or is He some sort of Loki - like trickster god who delights in deceiving His children at such a fine level of detail?
And I haven't even scratched the surface with the examples of the "appearance of age" and the problems with such a notion.
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