May I try?
YECs believe that the Earth and life on it are only 6k years old. Science has strong evidence that it is MUCH MUCH older than that, evidence from the Earth itself.
YECs have stated that science's interpretation of great age is false, that it only appears old to us but is really only 6k years old.
Paul is saying that by claiming that the old age is simply an appearance of age the YECers are making god seem like a liar to those that accept the greater age.
Of course the YECs don't believe it is a deception, but their claim sure looks like one to others.
Of course we don't believe it is a deception, (many don't believe your god exists so how could it deceive us) but the YEC claims make it look like one.
If one were to believe in your god, accept the scientifically accepted age of the Earth, AND listen to YECs it would seem that they are asking us to believe that god was deceiving us.
I'll stop now before I get any more redundant.
edited to add<< Buz has participated in an apparent age thread before. what he never seemed to understand is that everyone was agreeing that SOME apparant age would probably be necessary...just not the amount of apparant age.
[This message has been edited by Asgara, 04-05-2004]
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