Did Satan make the Great Barrier reef appear to be half a million years old?

I really can't tell if you're being serious, and it's rather scary to consider the possibility that you might in fact be serious.

"But the LIVING part is EXACTLY 6000 years old.

"Sea level on the Great Barrier Reef has not risen significantly in the last 6,000 years. ]The CRC Reef Research Centre estimates the age of the present, living reef structure at 6,000 to 8,000 years old.""

So what is it? 6000 years, 8000 years or something in between? Or is the live part only a few decades old? Condemned out of your own keyboard.

Why do the estimates of the Biblical date of creation vary so much among Biblical scholars? Bishop Ussher calculated 4004 BC, Jewish scholars, whose claim to the Old Testament is better than that of Christians have put the year at 3760BC. Other estimates from the same material go back as far as 5503BC.

These dates might seem superficially similar, but a closer look shows that they vary wildly. The difference between 3760 and 5503 is 1743, almost a 40% variation on the mean. Since the dates have been calculated in part from the very clear ages given for the patriarchs in Genesis, the variation in calculation is even more astounding.

The ages of these patriarchs allows me to calculate the date of the Great Flood as about 2358BC taking Ussher’s estimate, or 2114BC from the Jewish estimate.

Now quite independently of Bishop Ussher and Jewish historians it is possible to calculate the date of the completion of the Great Pyramid in Egypt at a few decades before 2520BC and of the Step Pyramid of Djoser as not long before 2650BC. These dates are supported by a few lines of evidence, not including carbon dates. Thus the Great Flood must have happened after these pyramids were built, but the old Egyptians did not notice that they had all been drowned and kept on building pyramids for quite a while.

I've seen a few of your questions by jingo, and by jingo if I don't think you are trolling.

People need to take off the blindfold and ask a simple question: Who was around half a million years to know? Scientist rely on machines which were made by man who is fallible. In addition , scientists do not agree with each other. Of course many scientists are evolutionists and thus do not believe in creation. The people who believe in creation push the 6000 year old earth idea. Whether it is half a million years or 6000 years, all of these are guesstimates. Man does not control time, nor is he smart enough to know the ways or thoughts of God.Man is so smart and can tell the age of the Great Barrier Reef. How is it that they have not discovered the depth of the Tongue of the Ocean?

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> But the LIVING part is EXACTLY 6000 years old.

No it isn't. Coral polyps certainly do not live that long.

Why do theists just up and assert stuff like that?

Sea levels after the last ice melt stabilized about 7000 years ago, this affected which portion of the reef could support coral colonies. (the sea level rise also caused the inundation of the Black Sea, giving rise to the flood myths of the middle east)

rift3r:

No Aussie would drink Fosters- that's crap beer only for export, we keep the good stuff to ourselves.

While I'm not sure that Satan made the Great Barrier Reef look like it was half a million years old...I do agree that God created the world 6000 years ago...But honestly how would we even know what something half a million years old looks like?

What I dont understand is.... why the age of the Earth is such a contentious issue anyway? WHO CARES? It was before all of our lifetimes and in no way what so ever impacts our lives today. Seriously there are bigger things going on that should be getting the attention of both Christians and Atheists... namely the endless wars we wreak on one another, injustice, disease, hunger, the degredation of our planet, education, patience, peace, justice, forebearance, curiosity, exploration...

I dont understand why people obsses about the things that matter the least... I guess they dont want to put the real work in... its easier to complain about the crap no one can change and argue endlessly over conjectures than actually roll their sleeves up and do something....

pity...

Well if we're going to generalise - Hey rift3r, you're a stupid ignorant c*nt which means you must be American. And all Americans do is get fat, have illegitimate children and pretend they're the greatest country in the world even though the rest of the world actually laughs at their false sense of authority.

And as to the question at hand - no, it doesn't amaze me at all. What amazes me is the stupidity of your question.

In my opinion the reef is actually over 9000 years old

Yes, Satan has been very busy planting fossils and putting telomeres, the endplates of chromosomes, in the middle of a chromosmome twice as large as the others to confuse us that they actually fused during a genetic mutation that occured in the evolutionary process. Darn that nasty old Satan. This is why you should never look outside the Bible for information.

Satan didn't do anything.

When God cursed the ground in Genesis, this is when things began to decay. I have the feeling that we haven't all the information yet as to the full effects of God's curse on the Earth.