But the problem is, Jon, that advocates of Creationism do not believe the proof. They (as I understand the position, anyway) claim that the Earth was created approximately 10,000 years ago complete with all the fossil remains, etc, already there in the rocks, just to make it
look like it's 4.6 billion years old. Why their "God" would be so perverse as to wish to do this is a question I've never been able to get a satisfactory answer to
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