To fundamental christian/religious people

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Question : if earth is really 6000 years old (or 10000 years) , then how you can explain that the continents fit into each others like pieces of puzzle ?

Come on ...let's hear your **supernatural** theories.

Faith.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_minute_hypothesis Therefore, there is no problem whatsoever with the universe being created 6000 years ago.

^^ sorry this is a stupid theory ...it's rather a BS .

greenblue , i am not convinced ...why God would create 6000 years ago continents that fit in each other like puzzles ?God's sense of humor perhaps? or doesn't that means that all continents were one piece and they were drifted apart during billion of years?

The 5 minute hypothesis? It was developed by one of the better known atheist philosophers. They even have a comic named after him in atheist communities. There is also a teapot named after him too.

Why not create a world that works like that? The fact of the matter is that we refer back to the workings of a being whose reasoning nobody perfectly knows.

^^he was atheist philosopher and not scientist , sometimes philosophers babble crap .

So? Scientists are not necessarily equipped to deal with philosophical problems. Science is based upon a philosophy(actually closer to an epistemology because science is too lacking to be a life philosophy), not the reverse.

Science does not pretend to be a life philosophy. Science develops testable theories to explain and understand the physical world, with is a lot more than 10,000 years old.

No, it does not pretend to be a life philosophy, however, people do overvalue science and ignore its place in the scheme of things. I know what science is to and I agree with your definition, however, you still cannot prove that the world is more than 10,000 years old, you can only assert that the best evidence tends towards that conclusion. This may make it difficult for the hard-core young earth creationist to believe what they do, but they can still do it and assert that their viewpoint isn't disproved. My issue is that we are assuming science has more power than it does, it is merely an epistemological system designed to come up with the best answer based upon concrete data and logic, it is incredibly powerful for understanding the world, but it cannot overcome philosophy.

^^^
As regards understanding the physical world, I suppose I just have to put my faith in science.

Which is not to say science is a religion. It says nothing of the spiritual world