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Old 10-12-2015, 02:18 AM
 
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Why did God wait so long before he created man?

Assuming that mankind is the whole reason for having the earth in the first place (as religious people believe).
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Old 10-12-2015, 02:50 AM
 
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Why did God wait so long before he created man?

Assuming that mankind is the whole reason for having the earth in the first place (as religious people believe).
The starting assumption is an unknown. If we start a line of logic from an unknown we can make up anything we want from that point. In the same vain, if somebody describes me a 6'-6" 280 lbs they can say I play professional football. It doesn't mean I don't exist but it does mean that when they see me they should change the story.
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Old 10-12-2015, 03:00 AM
 
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The starting assumption is an unknown. If we start a line of logic from an unknown we can make up anything we want from that point. In the same vain, if somebody describes me a 6'-6" 280 lbs they can say I play professional football. It doesn't mean I don't exist but it does mean that when they see me they should change the story.
But they could say PROBABLY or MIGHT HAVE PLAYED professional football and that would be a logical hypothesis.

Just as humanity is able to determine age of a culture based on tools, pottery and other artifacts. Carbon dating has proven to be fairly accurate and reasonable. SO determining the age of something to be between 6,000 years and 1.2 million is relatively easy.
What causes problems is when some evangelicals insist Abraham had pet T-Rexes and walked with he brontosaurus in an effort to discredit carbon dating and fit nature into an archaic book that was written by men for men is wild.
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Old 10-12-2015, 03:48 AM
 
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He always saves the best to last
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Old 10-12-2015, 06:59 AM
 
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Why did God wait so long before he created man?

Assuming that mankind is the whole reason for having the earth in the first place (as religious people believe).
What makes you think he did?
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Old 10-12-2015, 07:05 AM
 
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Why did God wait so long before he created man?
Just to clarify...you mean from that place where there is no time, the eternal now?
I'm thinking you may in the group that thinks an electron is a particle?
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Old 10-12-2015, 07:06 AM
 
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God only waited 6 days. Duh.

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What makes you think he did?
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Old 10-12-2015, 08:02 AM
 
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God only waited 6 days. Duh.
The OP apparently disagrees with you.
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Old 10-12-2015, 11:11 AM
 
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Default Why did God wait billions of years before creating man?

All good things take time to grow and develop. The initial life forms had to evolve into hominids with brains capable of receiving and producing Spirits.
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Old 10-12-2015, 11:18 AM
 
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All good things take time to grow and develop. The initial life forms had to evolve into hominids with brains capable of receiving and producing Spirits.
Which kind of spirits?

My brain usually receives a few spirits after work on Friday down at Market Street Brewing Co.
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