Reply #18: What do you think is the appropriate response to silly ideas?

[eallen]

There are calibrated tree-ring histories that go back further than 6,000 years. Of course, an omnipotent god could have created evidence of a longer past than the world actually has. That was seriously proposed by the theologian Philip Gosse, as a way of explaining the conflict between the Bible's literal history and the physical evidence of longer age.

Which raises the question: at what point do you start laughing at a religious believer's explanations?

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