The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.

Water covered much of the earth until about 2.5 billion years ago.

About 400 million years ago the first multi-cellular organisms appeared on land that came out of the sea.

Sharks have been around about 450 million years and have survived all the major extinctions

Crocodiles 200 million years.

Sabre Toothed Cats roamed North American from about 40 million years ago until 11,000 years ago. It is hard for me to comprehend how long that is and I consider myself a very intelligent person. That is undeniable. They have their skulls which were pulled out of the La Brea tar pits. That is as real as it gets. Along with a horde of other animals and plant life.

The last Ice Age began about 2.6 million years ago and ended about 12,000 years ago. The earth has gone through more geological and climate changes in 4.5 billion years than you can shake a stick at.

I don't care what your religion is these are the facts. Reconcile them however you like but to deny them is absurd in my opinion. I became interested in geology as a child. We were actually Squirrel hunting in Jackson County. I looked over at a rock on Sharp Mountain and saw the fossil of several Crinoids and Brachiopods in the rock. Clearly was ocean/marine life. So I took a sledge hammer back up there and broke it off and took it to school.

I did not understand how that got there. That's when I learned that North Alabama rocks were once the bottom of shallow seas between the Cambrian and Pennsylvanian Periods of the Paleozoic Era. And that these fossils I had found and took to school are older than the dinosaurs.

I would encourage anyone regardless of their religious beliefs and views on evolution to objectively maybe just look at some of this stuff. I would encourage visiting the Natural History Museum in New York if you are ever there and/or the Smithsonian in Washington.

About 400 million years ago the first multi-cellular organisms appeared on land that came out of the sea.

I don't care what your religion is these are the facts.

Righttttttttt....

The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old.

Water covered much of the earth until about 2.5 billion years ago.

About 400 million years ago the first multi-cellular organisms appeared on land that came out of the sea.

Sharks have been around about 450 million years and have survived all the major extinctions

Crocodiles 200 million years.

Sabre Toothed Cats roamed North American from about 40 million years ago until 11,000 years ago. It is hard for me to comprehend how long that is and I consider myself a very intelligent person. That is undeniable. They have their skulls which were pulled out of the La Brea tar pits. That is as real as it gets. Along with a horde of other animals and plant life.

The last Ice Age began about 2.6 million years ago and ended about 12,000 years ago. The earth has gone through more geological and climate changes in 4.5 billion years than you can shake a stick at.

I don't care what your religion is these are the facts. Reconcile them however you like but to deny them is absurd in my opinion. I became interested in geology as a child. We were actually Squirrel hunting in Jackson County. I looked over at a rock on Sharp Mountain and saw the fossil of several Crinoids and Brachiopods in the rock. Clearly was ocean/marine life. So I took a sledge hammer back up there and broke it off and took it to school.

I did not understand how that got there. That's when I learned that North Alabama rocks were once the bottom of shallow seas between the Cambrian and Pennsylvanian Periods of the Paleozoic Era. And that these fossils I had found and took to school are older than the dinosaurs.

I would encourage anyone regardless of their religious beliefs and views on evolution to objectively maybe just look at some of this stuff. I would encourage visiting the Natural History Museum in New York if you are ever there and/or the Smithsonian in Washington.

Alright, where is the tylenol?

Lol I ain't fixing to get into a discussion about primordial soup, transition from anaerobic to aerobic, formation of mitochondrion, transition from sea to land, etc.

I believe in micro-evolution, as we see that still happening today. However, I just think macro-evolution is a crock of chit. That being said, I could be completely wrong. I'm not saying God couldn't make it happen, I'm just saying I don't think He did.

Alright, where is the tylenol?

I want to get deep into this, but I just feel the need to stay out of it for the most part. We've been down this road 100 times on Aldeer over the years.

I don't know the age of the earth, but I think it is much younger than the Billions of years the evolutionists claim it to be. How much younger? A Lot younger. Macro-evolution is an atheistic, far fetched, humanistic creation of man in my opinion. Simply no evidence for it. Ancient creatures existed, sure. But there is no link showing a transformation. Evolution has become its own religion to explain the Universe that was designed and created intentionally.

The reason I say that is based on a few things from scripture:

Who actually created? Christ did.

As the creator, Son of God, on earth as a man, Christ had the opportunity to read and study Genesis (as well as all the OT) as a human being and to correct it in his teachings. He never did, he upheld the authority of it all. He created it all so he knows how it happened and when. He read the accounts and confirmed every last word.

What does that tell us today? I know what it tells me.
Does the bible address every issue? No. It isn't a textbook.

All of the OT, including Genesis, points to Christ. We can debate the 3rd level theology all day, but Christ is central. Having the proper view of creation and scripture is important though because a Biblical worldview based on the Truth of Scripture is an essential thing when Standing Firm, Guarding our Hearts, Wearing the Full Armor of God, and sharing the Gospel.

Christians can believe in Billions of years and macro-evolution, sure. But that stance does come with theological implications to say the very least. To each his own. Ultimately, it is about Christ and that is where our emphasis needs to be.

Genesis tells us that Noah took 2 of every animal of its kind not every animal

Reread the account of the flood, slowly and tell me again how many he took

Good point. Most of the Jewish dietary laws are to keep people from catching diseases from improper handling of the animal carcass and forbidden to eat some animals that carries more diseases.