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I completely agree.

If someone's reason is, "because I do", then I have to question why they take me to task over my own, thought-out, belief. Also as Toaster said, I don't think He wants us to be sheeple, or else He would have just made us sheeple- it's really as simple as that.

All notions of creationism vs. evolution aside, I don't understand how anyone can disagree with the age of the planet stated by scientists, as multiple different methods of scientific measurement have yielded the same answer on the age of the planet.

I wonder why those who believe in "6,000 years" see fit to chant prove it to the scientific community when "science", not "religion", is the methodical, testable theory- whose tests all currently stand together.

Of course, Believing that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old instead of 6,000 years old has nothing to do with believing in God, it just requires that you once again look at the Bible as a book that is meant to teach through stories and lessons, not a manual to be followed literally.

Here's a question for the "6,000 years" people- if you truly believe God made the Earth, how much different to God do you think it is for Him to make a planet by blinking its entirety into existence, or make a planet by creating the right conditions in the universe for a planet to form? Why do you insist He created man, when He could just as easily have created the first single-celled organisms, kicking off an evolutionary process which would naturally yield all the plants and animals He planned it would? Why argue that He spawned entire planets at will- maybe the "Big Bang" really DID happen, and he's the one who created that?

The point is, there's no reason to believe God micro-managed every last blade of grass on the planet just because the Bible says He created the Earth. Yes, I also believe He created the Earth- but by creating the right conditions that would ultimately form our existence.