Advocatus Diaboli

I'm doing a small survey about creationists. If you believe that God created stuff, please give a short answer to the following questions.

1. How old is the Universe?

2. How old is the Earth?

3. How old is life?

4. Was there a Flood? If there was, when?

5. Was there one Ice Age or more? When?

Thank you for your cooperation.

Quetzal

1. 6000 years

2. 6000 years

3. 6000 years

4. 4500 years ago

5. 4500 years ago, during the Flood

Gee, that was easy.

CJD

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Originally posted by Advocatus Diaboli
I'm doing a small survey about creationists. If you believe that God created stuff, please give a short answer to the following questions.

1. How old is the Universe?

2. How old is the Earth?

3. How old is life?

4. Was there a Flood? If there was, when?

5. Was there one Ice Age or more? When?

Thank you for your cooperation.
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Note that the Scriptures do not give us any of these answers conclusively (except for the bit about Noah's flood). As Galileo wrote, "The bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go." * Also note that I hold on to these answers very loosely.

1. about 15 billion to 550 million years old

2. about 550 million years old

3. about 550 million years old

4. First conclusive world-wide flood? From the time after the Pleistocene until about 6,000 years ago.

5. More than one. The major being the Pleistocene (lasting for about 1 million years and ending around 10,000-14,000 years ago). A minor one after the local flood recounted in Genesis (about 4,300 years ago). At least the geological records indicate this . . .

Quetzal

I see several posters on TheologyWeb have answered your questions in almost identical fashion as my (I thought tongue-in-cheek) reply above. Hmm, I must be more prophetic than I thought.

If it isn't too revealing of your evil atheist designs, could you provide a brief overview of what you expect(ed) to accomplish with this survey?

Advocatus Diaboli

I could talk of a Grand Desing, but maybe I should reveal the truth.

I was bored...

I spread this survey on to several different internet forums. Just to see what it will stirr up.

SLD

If you really want to get a rise, try asking them to defend their answers. Ask them for their explanation of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and its observed anisotropy. Ask them what all the various hominid fossils really are, and whether they think Lucy walked upright or not. I tried this several years ago on an AOL message board. I never got an answer.

SLD

CJD

Keeping in mind I am no scientist:

Oh, but maybe you were talking about Young Earth Creationist types. Anyway, here goes . . .

1. I know nothing of Cosmic Microwave stuff. Does it disprove the existence of a Creator-God?

2. I can only guess that all the hominid fossils are just that—hominid fossils. But I thought, since recent findings could find no DNA link between Neanderthal and homo sapiens, that the hominid fossils are an altogether different creature. Like the recently found Cro-Magnon man, too, whose mitochondria DNA generic marker is now extinct. Surprised? Not me. I don't think they will ever find a match. I also thought a hair found in Oregon, dated back to the Pleistocene, had no known DNA matches to any racial group on earth. I can only gather that they are entirely unrelated. Correct me if my "facts" are wrong.

3. Sure, Lucy walked upright. Forgive me, I do not know what the big deal is about that.

There's your answer. I hope you will stop picking on those poor AOL people.