Made-Old, the Stone Washed Universe
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Lets talk about the made-old explanation of natural and geological history. In this, certain people of faith who think that it is spiritually important to come to a specific conclusion about the creation of the world have posited that one way to make a seven day creation (six plus a one-day vacation, really) seem plausible in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary is to state that God made the world looking old.
I believe that this is remotely possible, provided you start with the assumption that there is a God and He is an omnipotent being capable of anything conceivable or inconceivable. In this, it could be said that God created the Earth in-situ, in process, like a rolling start.
In following this theory, I might then conclude that all events that apparently happened prior to the act of creation are therefore synthetic, and manufactured. God is omnipotent, however, so His manufactured history is 100% convincing in all the ways we as lowly humans can ever perceive. So the only one who could possibly tell the difference between the manufactured history and the real history is God Himself.
As a matter of fact, this could mean that God created the universe three minutes ago, including all of our memories up to this very moment. How could we ever know? My car, contrary to the evidence provided me by Ford Motor Credit, may be brand new and my bowels may be full of food I never really ate but only think I did.
Ah, but that is getting ahead of ourselves. Lets go back to God having created the Earth about six thousand years ago sporting a stylishly lived-in look. If true, then scientists have no choice but to use the evidence and phenomena presented by God’s manufactured reality in their quest to find answers and make predictions about the world around us. They must operate within the system set up for us by God. God seems to have made the artificial history completely seamless and predictive, and therefore removed the necessity of believing in his act of creation, an act for which he carefully provided us with no evidence.
That is, if He did such a thing so very effectively, then He effectively did no such thing at all.
With this, I think it is possible to believe in a seven day creation, and it is possible to believe that there was no seven day creation and both are not disprovable and can be valid paths to their adherents, though I am not among them, and fail to see the spiritual necessity of holding onto either concept. Why would the salvation through the love of Jesus require that we believe in a supposed seven day creation? (Well, six plus the aforementioned one-day vacation)
But what if you believe that all of time, past and future, may have already been about to be existing all along? What if all of time was always created because it was all created at once?
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HMMM intriguing theory.
I like the idea that God made the world esthetically(?)pleasing like a pair of faded blue jeans rather then the anal idea that the devil came in & mucked up something that started out pristine & squeaky clean. Not that I go for either one…
It’s hard to get around that omnipotent being concept, though.
I don’t believe it, either.
Mmm … Sacrilicious …
Ah, this is great. But then, we already know the Earth was only created for the benefit of a bunch of white mice, anyway. And, come to think of it, God already disappeared in a puff of logic by proving His existence. He wouldn’t want to do that, again!
God, I’m referential, today … Anyway, it’s because the concept of the world being created with all that fake, built-in history sounds awfully reminiscent of the way Douglas Adams described the creation of Earth by the Magratheans. Don’t tell me Christians are stealing ideas from a self-proclaimed “radical atheist,” now.
I like your shade of green better than my blog’s green.
arth: Fundamentalists scrabble and grab at any idea that allows them to defend their narrow world view. It comes from starting with an answer and then bending all available evidence to fit the predetermined answer.
This is the opposite of science, which starts with a question and just seeks to answer it.
lyvvie:Why, thank you! It is a variation of one of the standard templates. You should still be able to find it. I think it was “this-a-way green”. Not sure, though.
I applied your theory of everything being created at once, past, present and future, and suddenly found myself in the future time where the strongest electron microscope ever devised by man had been made. I then looked at material from before the ‘creationist’ prescribed period and found in very, very small writing on each individual proton and label that said ‘Made in China’.
So the Creationist are right and God ran a sweat shop.
I know we’ve only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days. The first day seemed like a week and the second day seemed like five days. And the third day seemed like a week again and the fourth day seemed like eight days. And the fifth day you went to see your mother and that seemed just like a day, and then you came back and later on the sixth day, in the evening, when we saw each other, that started seeming like two days, so in the evening it seemed like two days spilling over into the next day and that started seeming like four days, so at the end of the sixth day on into the seventh day, it seemed like a total of five days. And the sixth day seemed like a week and a half. I have it written down, but I can show it to you tomorrow if you want to see it.
rich: God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten sadistic foreman….
PJWarez: And now I have it written down as well! It seems as if its always about to have been four weeks.
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