It's obvious, Eric. Fossils are the remains of creatures killed in the Flood. Like unicorns and such. Or they're there to test our Faith. I can never remember.
Way back when I was in Catholic school, one of my teachers -- a nun, no less -- told us that while God might work miracles he doesn't work magic. There's a fine theological line between the two, to be sure, but it's there. Young-Earth creationism is based on magic. Intelligent design is based on magic. Nudging the amino acids, like airsick_moth suggests, is more of a miracle. Not that I believe that's how it happened, myself.
Plus, as you mention, any God that would create the universe (in more or less the condition we find it in now) in six days no more than 6,000 years ago and yet include all sorts of false evidence that leads us to believe it's around 5 billion years old is a right bastard of a God, and is laughing us all the way into the grave.
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Date: 2005-08-11 12:25 am (UTC)Way back when I was in Catholic school, one of my teachers -- a nun, no less -- told us that while God might work miracles he doesn't work magic. There's a fine theological line between the two, to be sure, but it's there. Young-Earth creationism is based on magic. Intelligent design is based on magic. Nudging the amino acids, like
Plus, as you mention, any God that would create the universe (in more or less the condition we find it in now) in six days no more than 6,000 years ago and yet include all sorts of false evidence that leads us to believe it's around 5 billion years old is a right bastard of a God, and is laughing us all the way into the grave.