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::The reason that I called long ages atheistic is because long ages were the result of an attempt to explain the universe without God. And explaining the universe without God is still the only justification for long ages; you certainly don't need long ages if you have God, and the ''evidence'' for long ages is ambiguous at best.
::The reason that I called long ages atheistic is because long ages were the result of an attempt to explain the universe without God. And explaining the universe without God is still the only justification for long ages; you certainly don't need long ages if you have God, and the ''evidence'' for long ages is ambiguous at best.
:: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 04:37, 27 November 2007 (EST)
:: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 04:37, 27 November 2007 (EST)
:::Hinduism is polytheistic and does have a creator God, and some even argue that it almost mono-theistsic and that the different gods are only different aspects of the same divine being. But it is by no means atheistic, this in contrast with Buddhism. Anyway, Hinduism is a tangent, given that this this religion will only account for a few of the at least 60% of Americans that believe in an creator God, and accept at the same time an old earth view.
:::You are right that an atheistic world view, together with the theory of evolution, and modern astronomy requires an old earth. However, the question is not if atheism requires an old earth, the argument is that an old earth view requires atheism. And this is not the case. The existence of a creator god does not require that the earth is young. And a majority of American believes exactly this, even if you disagree with then, and even if they are wrong. [[User:Order|Order]] 07:12, 27 November 2007 (EST)
==Tides and the earth-moon distance==
==Tides and the earth-moon distance==