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Originally posted by Bardan the Slayer:
I'm stunned that we can live in a Universe that breathes on a scale of billions of years, seeing stars that were born or died millions and billions of years ago, and yet some people still believe that the Earth is young and fresh and new. Is 1 million years too old for the earth? Get real - 1 million years is *nothing*. The galaxy works on a scale of time that is incomprehensible to us. We see first generation stars out there that formed when the galaxy was young, billions of years ago, yet the Earth is less than a few million years old? I think not.
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Of course, compared to the rest of the galaxy,
by your own words, the earth
is young and fresh and new by comparison!
So.........we're all right and no one is wrong. We simply look at things in a different light and interpretation. If some attribute creation to a divine being, that's right. If some attribute the same to a cosmic kaboom and potluck, that's right also. Seems to me there's plenty of room for everyone's beliefs here....
As for evolution, I am more likely to go with Nachtrafe and the generational evolution theory. On the other hand, I am not willing to totally discount the evolution theory in general as I was not (contrary to my children's beliefs) around at 'the beginning of time' to see the start of species. And what I do not know, I do not summarily sweep out of the realm of possibility. Nor do I simply kowtow to the 'other side' and say that it is something that must be taken on faith that a deity is the only personage with enough power to do such a thing and we are simply the result of a fine-tuning process. Now, since I have agreed with the gen-evolution theory, I obviously believe in the fine-tuning idea. But whether my millions-times-removed ancestor crawled out of the oceans way back when..............::shrugs:: Apparently that knowledge is not given for me to know. Kind of like the "eyes only" in the military. And that's ok with me. I have enough to know and worry about and ponder already.