Wow, missed your response (Bob). Lost in all the rest of the discussion.
That passage does not say that. It speaks of creation being "subjected in hope", and groaning and travailing, and eventually to be delivered, but does not say there who caused it other than "Him who subjected it". And it seems to be talking about all of creation, not just the earth.That proposal [death before Adam] was clearly debunked in the review we did of Romans 8 - where Paul clearly says that the death decay and corruption of nature itself was imposed on it due to the sin of Adam.
But I had also said "the decay in the universe". We do see decay way beyond this world which is all God has committed to us. (Psalms 115:16) That cannot have been caused by our fall.Actually man was given dominion over the earth and the animals on the earth according to scripture. No such commands regarding total and absolute dominin were given to angels.
You're looking only at the maturation of living things. I was talking about rocks, stars, and stuff like that, where "age" is from a type of "decay" (gets older, not as fresh as when new).The age vs non-age argument assumes "too much knowledge for man".
#1. Man does not know how to make a living planet - man has no idea how much daughter product in the classic decay sequences is "needed in the earths crust" to make it viable.
#2. Mankind was "obviously" not created as a "zygote" nor as a 1 day old infant.
#3. The plants were "obviously" not just seeds laying on the ground. All animal life would have died.
#4 A host of other mammals could not "survive" if created as "zygotes" or "1 day old cubs".
So the existence of earth with what "we call age" was obvious and necessary from the very start.
No. The process of going from zygote to adult does not require that the zygote "decay".
It's not supposed to. Obviously, those who believe the Bible do not accept the "uniformitarianism" of science, so no, you can't "solve" anything to them. But as there was a Creation, there will be a new Creation. But at least it's nice to know that string theory allows for instantaneous change that breaks the uniformitarianism most science today assumes.Speculating about "entirely new laws of science" does not really "Solve" any real science problem here. Under that vast non-specific umbrella can come a host of alternatives.