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[questor]

The main impediment to discussing this problem is the inability of most people
to eliminate the man-made concept of God from their minds when arguing points. Example here is the parting of the Red Sea myth which of course is immediately refuted by those of scientific bent , or that man was created 10,000 years ago, a story which is always used to point out how ridiculous creationists claims are. This is a ridiculous claim, but suppose the dates were off and man's ancestors appeared after the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, about 65 million years ago, or even much later.
My own argument is to imagine the earth does not exist, but the rest of the universe does. There is no one to confuse the issue by concocting the myth of an elderly man with a staff and long beard surrounded by angels. What then? 3 choices:
1. the universe was always here
2. the universe spontaneously appeared
3. the universe was created by some force that was/is not God
My point, do not argue the Bible, do not argue the existence of God, do not argue man-made myths--argue how the universe came to be. If it was created, creationism would be science.