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Originally Posted by jonesy
If people believe in an infinite God, I don't know why they have to say the world is only 6000 years old.
I think you can believe God created everything and have no concerns with the existance of dinosaurs and an earth that is millions of years old. Obviously the fossil record supports the existance of dinosaurs.
One thing that troubles me is that I have yet to see any conclusive fossil records that would support evolution. You would think they would abound. There seems to be lots of fossils of many species but not any of 'partial' species or ones that are in transition. That would be amazing.
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You are discussing the origin of the universe, which is different than the discussion of evolution of life on Earth.
No one has reached any proof of the origin of the universe (ie, what happened right before the big bang), but as photon said, scientests are OK with not knowing. They are ferviously trying to prove what happened, but the fact that they don't know (yet) is ok by them.
Creationists seem to be of the opinion that this is not OK and need an explaination for the beginnings of things, and thus, God is the answer. But the argument comes in from scientists that you can't just say what something is and hold that as truth. There has to be evidence of something. Creationists take it on faith that God created it, Scientists don't know what happened, but aren't going to claim they do until they do.