Our young earth

[jemfinch]

The proof of any scientific theory is its usefullness.

Sure, I can agree with that.

People who use the notion of a billions of year old earth find oil and gold and copper

These were found and used thousands of years before Darwin.

and fossils

Evolution purports to explain the appearance of fossils, but I’m not sure such explanations really qualify as “useful” in at least a pragmatic sense.

and nuclear energy and dark matter and …

These are matters of theoretical and practical physics, entirely unrelated to evolution.

People who belive the earth is 30,000 years old,

Usually it’s between 6,000 and 10,000, incidentally.

well, what good has that theory done them?

We believe that the world that God called “good” was not the result of the millions of years of death, pain and suffering required for natural selection to run its course.

Let me note, at least for myself, that there are no processes of evolution that I’m aware that I deny. I simply don’t accept it as an historical explanation of the origin of the diversity of lifeforms we see on the earth today. Speciation, natural selection, etc.: I don’t deny the studies that indicate that those processes exist today. I only choose to disbelieve that those are the processes that resulted in the world that God called “good” and the end of His creation. I don’t see any compelling reason to do so, either philosophically or scientifically.

Jeremy