God versus Science Questions & Other Musings

About: geologic time: age of the earth

Science seems to think that the age of the Earth is about 4.5 billion years give or take a couple of billion.  Recorded history is only a few thousand years. Why if God created the Earth several billion years ago did he wait so long to create people who could read & write ?





















The early 20th century British essayist G.K. Chesterton once observed

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  1. god
  2. science
  3. geologic time
  4. earth

Comments

Mark de LA says
A nanosecond after the Big Bang was anything traveling faster than the speed of light? Is the current believed size of the universe & it's age compatible with the expansion of something (say a micro black hole full of stuff) to the size of the universe over the amount of time the universe is said to have aged since the Big Bang ?


Mark de LA says
seth 2007-02-16 10:46:30 4721
Interesting comparison between Faith and Science here

Would that it were actually that way.  It's more like this for science:

Get an idea -> Formulate a computer model->Ignore contradicting real world evidence->go to faith model->etc.

Most so-called science is about getting grants, finding statistics that support one's theory, publishing, building one's reputation & job security.

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