I am afraid even a dummy like me can see the surrounding countryside that I live in isnt eroding and changing at a rate that would fit a 6-10 000 year time frame
I dont think you have to be einstein to work that bit out! or the rate at which galaxies ect are evolving during our lifetime while viewing them through our telescopes! many, many simple examples like that. rate at which a glacier moves ect. none of these things fit a 6-10 000 year frame rate. And beleive me that is fundamental to this theory - remember many movements and politics rely on the general apathy and non involvement and ignorance to get their agenda's progressing - the nazi's for instance - I wonder if the victims of the Holacaust thought life was just a dream?.
I also think it is mischevious, to say the least, that a belief held dear by all of ~6% of all Christians masquerading as fact is given MASSIVE reverent and unquestioning mainstream media coverage over a sustained period of time, and is even seriously considered by our government representatives at the highest level, as replacement and or alternative to science for all Aussies, non-christians everybody, the lot. And on top of that if you question and examine it, you are anti-God and religion - that is outrageous! how conveniant!
Even a dummy like me knows that science is fully transparent, built slowly on facts tested over and over, and science thrives and invites and indeed demands that you question and question hard everything contained in it - thats how it got were it is today - lets look at this alternative to science - I think dogma is supposed to be just accepted and accepted unquestionably..that is called faith
to harp on about my experience again - the brand of religon I know best was very wary of the old testament and indeed almost embaressed of it - they just glossed over it -they seemed to think it was slightly unhealthy and morbid to get too hung up on it and take it all literally - they were totally different when it came to the new testament - from Jesus onwards and the gospels was their big focus - and quite rightfully.
My main concern re this theory was not wether god exists or doesnt, but how this seriously proposed Theory related to a subject i am fond of and what were the impications for cosmology, astronomy? I cannot find any information on the web from the proponents of this theory that tells me how the 6-10 000 year time frame fits in with cosmology - does that make the universe the same age - I assume it does? can anyone tell me? TIA