How long did God ponder, “Do I make them with belly buttons, perhaps to make them resemble their future children, or leave them out?” I think it is in His power to do either.

The decision to create a “mature” Earth however, must have been much easier. In His wisdom, He knew that we would need oil, minerals, oceans, mountains and great plains that would take billions of years to “evolve.” Maybe He didn't want to wait. Maybe he created a “mature” Earth already filled with dinosaur bones, the remains of ancient man, an Earth ready for mankind, put here as little as 6,000 years ago. Can anyone out there prove that this wasn't the case? I don't think so. An entity capable of creating the grandeur of the universe would find it child's play to create a mature world.

On Dec. 20, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III of Harrisburg, Pa., ruled that intelligent design “is a religious alternative masquerading as a scientific theory” and cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district.

If Judge Jones, or anyone out there, cannot scientifically refute the “mature Earth” theory, then allow it to be presented for discussion in school where we should be encouraging our youths to “think outside the box"! I'm tired of great brains shaking their tired old dinosaur bones at me and telling me how Earth was created.

Martin Martinez

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