farmerman wrote:I'm thinking that , during creation, everything that was alive, ever, was created all at once. Then it began dying off, at which time it left fossils.
However, since I wasnt there, I cant be sure, and thus,not having been there, that interpretation doesnt stand up to closer inspection, unless the earth were really young. No, that doesnt stand up to close inspection either.
Im still thinking.
I'm thinking that everything was created approximately 6000 years ago. Everything including a complete and detailed fully comprehensive history of time and space. The past was created as well as the present, and they were made to match.
Animals popped into existance and remembered their previous morning, even though they never had one. Behaviours and instincts suddenly existed as though they had always existed.
All the processes of biology and physical laws were put into place and started in one moment, with a rich trail of history to preceed them.
Of course, this very same argument works for any moment in time we choose (it might have happened ten minutes ago), and there's no way to detect the creation event happening since it leaves no mark.
If this were happening, then the philosophical question would be "is there any difference between an undetectable creation event, and no creation event at all".