re: 2 billion year old fossils of multicellular life forms discovered

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This "discovery" takes nothing away from God.

This is no "gotcha" moment.

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Agreed...unless you happen to be a YEC. But then, anyone that is still a YEC has no interest in examining evidence, so new evidence that pushes an already impossible date even further back is completely irrelevant. To those that have to believe the entire universe is around 10,000 years old, it matters little if science finds life at 600 million or 2 billion. It has to be wrong because it has to be wrong.

As for the discovery, very very cool. This is, after all, what science does. It refines our knowledge base as new information and new ways of discovery things come in. For some, the fact that this may push back the established time line by 1.5 billion years will be seen as a failure of science and how "it's always wrong." For the rest of us rational folks, this is seen as a sharpening of our knowledge...like going from flat, to spherical, to oblate spheroid when describing the earth as we got better and better at measuring it. To say that earlier descriptions were "wrong" may be accurate...but to suggest it was as wrong as the first belief or that we will suddenly come to the conclusion that the earth is actually a cube or that life is actually 10,000 years old is just asinine.

These folks are in the same camp as those who will ask for and receive evidence of a transitional fossil between 2 species, only to then point at the new gaps created between the the old fossils and the new one and claim we now have two NEW spots to fill. Ugh...