I am not saying "I know it happened this way", but I would like to posit that God created the earth with an appearance of age. Perhaps, he created a fossil record of creatures that never actually existed; or existed in some time frame we are unaware of. His purpose in creating humans was to have a relationship with them, yet he gave us free will. To do so would imply that he didn't want to force us to serve him; we aren't drones. As such, would he (or the devil, but that's a whole new discussion) not put some stumbling blocks before us? It is possible that such things exist to make us have a "walk of faith"; not just "have faith". I certainly don't have the same views as I did ten years ago, and don't expect to have the same views I have today ten years from now. Life is a learning process. The one thing I am sure of is that, when I am in Heaven, one of my first questions for Jesus will be "So, how did your Father create the earth?"
I use an iMac G5 at home and a Dell Dimension at work running XP. I have not noticed any problems with crashes on either platform; 1.0 PR1 or the current full 1.0.
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I am not saying "I know it happened this way", but I would like to posit that God created the earth with an appearance of age. Perhaps, he created a fossil record of creatures that never actually existed; or existed in some time frame we are unaware of. His purpose in creating humans was to have a relationship with them, yet he gave us free will. To do so would imply that he didn't want to force us to serve him; we aren't drones. As such, would he (or the devil, but that's a whole new discussion) not put some stumbling blocks before us? It is possible that such things exist to make us have a "walk of faith"; not just "have faith". I certainly don't have the same views as I did ten years ago, and don't expect to have the same views I have today ten years from now. Life is a learning process. The one thing I am sure of is that, when I am in Heaven, one of my first questions for Jesus will be "So, how did your Father create the earth?"
I use an iMac G5 at home and a Dell Dimension at work running XP. I have not noticed any problems with crashes on either platform; 1.0 PR1 or the current full 1.0.