8,000 Years?
My very devout friends that I converse with at my coffee
shop have determined within their faith, that the earth and everything we know
is about – they approximate – 8,000 years old.
Because that is what it says in their holy book. As an open-minded scholar I have read this
holy book, in parts and as a whole several, if not many, times. I have gotten into the nifty-grifty of it and
read books about it. Its history. The story, as we can determine, about its evolution from campfire stories into
written form in separate parts into the compilation we know today – I have
studied all this.
Why? You ask,
why? Because it interests me. So much of what we must endure in our culture today is as a result of millenniums of worship of the precepts put forth in
this text. Actual worship of the text as a set of hard-fast bylaws by which lives are
promoted or withdrawn. Wear a hat here
and we cut your head off, if you don’t wear a hat over in this other place … we
cut your head off. Really???
So the 8,000 year rule?
As it was explained to me; I am told there is no scientific proof that the ground beneath our
feet with all of the dinosaur fossils and all carbon dating, etc., etc. are
truly as old as science tells us. I am
told that science is wrong.
Lots of other science is correct because we can see the other science. Nobody was there when the earth was created, so I am told we have to take that part on faith?
I can do that. I
mean, I really can do that. Taking certain parts of science on faith and
discounting other parts because I can’t drum enough faith to accept them. For instance I do accept on faith that the universe is infinite. I can’t
pull it together enough to accept that the universe is ever expanding. If something
is already as big as it is possible to ever be, how can it be in a constant
process of getting bigger?
Stuff like that.
An electron is an atomic element. If you have an atom, you have to one or
more electrons circulating, orbiting,
the nucleus. We are told that these
electrons are everywhere around that
nucleus at once. Or, they are separate and distinct things
which are everywhere at once.
I find that concept is something I can
accept, but I have to do so on faith.
Now this means, if a god is everywhere at once, omnipotent
and all-powerful and just decides once day (or whatever time element he/she
lives by) to create a planet and
place certain life forms, and such, on it – what would be the time
constraints? None really – that I can
see. Seven days plus 8,000 years? Sure?
Why not? If you want to take that
on faith. To me it makes as much sense
as the electron.
Not even taking into account that nearly all evidence points
to an observable condition of being able to stand on perceivably firm ground because the electrons sort of
bind together with a measurable
force. To me this kinds of proves the existence and conditions of
certain scientific evidence. You can
deny that it is fact, but you cannot
deny the resulting factors.
Now, if you accept the electron part and that it is possible
to actually and remotely measure the lifespan
of certain atoms by the amount of energy remaining within those same atoms then
there are intelligent design
conclusions you sort of have to
accept.
One of those intelligent
design conclusions is that if that measurement of the energy force
remaining in the atoms (electrons cohesion) is measurably 100 million years old
(or however many millions) and you are not
sinking into the floor like quicksand – well then maybe the 8,000 year old faith
component is kind of weird.
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