Hmm. Just picked up on this quote from pete:

"the central doctrine [of science] of purely naturalistic causes is sacresanct"

No it isn't. But if someone hypothesizes a non-naturalistic cause they must also make a prediction about some implication of that hypothesis, and design an experiment to test that prediction.

So let's do that...if the Earth was created 6000 years ago with essentially its current flora and fauna, then we should *not* be able to observe__________________________.

Fill in the blank, and we will come up with the experiment!

Note the formulation of the prediction as a falsifiable "null hypothesis". This is because we can't prove all swans are white by counting white swans, but we can prove *not* all swans are white by finding just a single black one (example stolen from Karl Popper of course).

This challenge is not a trap pete. It is science.