(we cross posted)..to answer the age thing...because we can ***PROVE*** that certain things are WAY older than 6000 years...there are physical processes that cannot happen without more time than that, and they have happened.

And I cannot fathom why a God who could create a universe, would play such a silly trick as to give us evidence of million year old fossils in a 6000 year old world! If a God did create it all, I'd like to think he'd do it logically, so his poor mortal creations wouldn't be scratching their heads in puzzlement at his sense of humor...