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Louann Miller (louann_m@yahoo.net) 2003/12/18 14:54
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:04:57 +0000 (UTC), "Piorokrat"
<piorokrat@autograf.pl> wrote:

>> So how far are you willing to take this? Did God create the world 6000
>> years ago with light on its way here from supernovae that never actually
>> happened? Miles of sedimentary rocks containing fossils of organisms
>> that never lived? Igneous rocks with radionuclides in various stages of
>> decay?
>
>Fossils are a point which can be discussed. They are much rarer than they
>should be bearing in mind what evolutionists say about the age of the earth.
>I tend to believe that they are flood victims.

This is actually not an uncommon creationist work-around.  It appears
to have been made up shortly after fossils first became commonly
known. The major competing theories of that era, "Satan did it to be
deceptive" and "Rock just does that sometimes, doesn't mean these were
really alive" have not aged nearly as well. But an examination of the
fossils themselves -- not just bones but tracks, burrows, fossil
pollen, etc -- makes that comforting theory impossible.

One example:
http://home.entouch.net/dmd/orkney.htm

Morton on the Flood in general:
http://home.entouch.net/dmd/fld.htm

And the appropriate entry from the extremely useful Index of
Creationist Claims.
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CH/CH561_4.html

I never did get an answer to my previous question. If your faith means
never, ever changing your interpretation of Genesis regardless of any
possible evidence, how is that different from fanaticism?

Louann

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