re: #70 allegro

I’ve heard is said that fossils are just God’s test of belief cuz the world really isn’t more than 6,000 years old. Is this much different?

Or that they’re tricks planted by the Devil to confuse men’s minds and faith.

Heaven forbid that they might be exactly what they appear to be - the remains of ancient animals, plants and other organisms. Or that an infinite and all-powerful God might choose to perform His creation using something other than a magic wand, or whatever it is He’s supposed to have done - a description the Bible rather pointedly leaves out.