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Originally Posted by RocketMoose
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You don't have to allow them to share with you, you can simply not answer the door.
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That's not really the point. The point is it's
socially acceptable for, lets hypothetically say, someone to knock on my door on a Saturday morning and immediately launch into a 'Have you invited Jesus into your life?' speech, yet if I were to knock on a door and ask 'Have you accepted that you stand here not due to a magic man in the sky willing it, but through millions of years of refinement and adaptation of genetic material?', I'd at least be cursed at and the door slammed in my face. A few houses later, I'd probably have the Po-Po circling the block looking for me.
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Originally Posted by RocketMoose
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Where in the Bible does it claim the Earth is 6,000 years old? Find it, bring it back to me...I dare you to read it cover-to-cover and show me where it says the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
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I actually have read the Bible, cover to cover. I like it. It has MANY MANY good lessons for life. Pretty much every one is allegorical.
As for the Earth being 6000 years old: It's pretty well accepted by creationists. Unless the Earth's rotation, and thus length of days, months and years has DRASTICALLY changed between the moment of 'creation' and the beginning of recorded history, it's fairly easy to figure out. God created 'The heavens and the earth on day 1. Adam was created on day 6. So the 'earth' is roughly one week older than people and animals. Assuming that unless otherwise specified (Methuselah, Noah, and a few other notables) the lifespan of a person was similar to now, lets say 80-100 years, all one has to do is count the generations laid out in the early books of the Old Testament. That outlines about 1500 years. Then we just have to look at biblical figures that aren't directly tied to lineage...King Herod, for example. There are other, non-religious texts that corroborate his birth and death. That places him chronologically in time, and also in context to other figures in the Bible.
Your move, Holy man.