As a creationist I can confirm that creationists who think the world is 6000 years old are idiots.
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Agreed. Most creationists take the "created earth in six days" literally. We can't know if it was actually just 6 days or 6 billion years. Bible also says that God has a different view of time. To him a thousand years can seem like a day.
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Exactly. That's why I hate literalists. They take the word of god so seriously but don't think about what they're reading. Why would a god's word be so basic? I think a lot of it is a metaphor, or gets misinterpreted. Like the story of Sodom & Gamorra, (I think I spelled that wrong). It was destroyed because the town had no hospitality, but for some reason everyone reads it as "god smited it cuz there wur gays in the town".
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Thats arguable, but I would say that aside from a lot of the moral instructions and the fact that god is real, the stories are metaphors or have a deeper meaning. You're meant to think about the bible, not read it and instantly assume what's written down is absolute truth.