Trotskygrad wrote:
-Sh1fty- wrote:
menzo wrote:
Radioactive decay dating
God didn't necessarily create the universe brand new. He could have given it age.
Especially since earth is only ~6000 years old.
what motive would he have for giving it age? (god? a troll? no wai!)
and what proves that it's ~6000 years old anyways?
there's this
book, written by nomads in a desert in what is now the Middle East, that gives a written account of all 6,000 years.
now that account is abridged and has been translated many times, and the reckoning of said years is purported to be described by a diety to one of the nomads, and because said description is purported to be of divine provenance other men not present are obligated to take the accounting as truth.
if you do not strictly believe in the account mentioned above, or have a faith that is at odds to said account, you shall be branded 'heretic' and will not partake in the future favors of said diety.
after you*re dead, of course - leaving no possible avenue to report on the veracity of said document. you have to take another man's word that this is all true and feasible, and we will call this 'faith'.