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actually the fossil evidence presents an extremely serious problem for evolution. it shows only sudden appearances and extinctions and no gradual change whatsoever. richard dawkins (a higher echelon famous evolutionist) and his colleagues have freely admitted this. that in fact is what has led to the recent theories of punctuated equilibrium ( a resurrection of the previously discredited “hopeful monsters” proposition), which have replaced darwinism (at least in the higher centers of research, it hasnt really trickled down to the high school level, for the most part)
but that has nothing whatsoever to the the lack of indisputability of your proofs. if you want to believe in fossil evidence, go ahead.
now the following assumes that you believe in a Creator, if you dont i have nothing to say of meaning for you.
the Creator created a MATURE world, in seven days, seven 24 hour periods, (we dont need to say that a day wasnt a day or whatever. you could say that but you dont need to). the Boreh created a mature world.
Adam wasnt a seed, he was a grown man. the trees he saw werent seeds they were mature trees many years old. although dirt is composed of sand and decomposed living matter, modified by bacteria and worms and ants, and other complex processes, nevertheless Adam stood on dirt the day he was created.
and it was an earth full of lead and iron and copper and oil and sapphires and diamonds.
diamonds and oil that take hundreds of thousands of years to create.
they were all there when Hashem created the universe, because he simply created a mature universe.
he certainly may have created carbon and uranium isotopes in a manner of a mature world as well as everything else, just as he placed stars in the world trillions and trillions of miles away. He placed them there for man to see. Adam saw them the first night he was born, he didnt have to wait trillions of years for the light to reach him.
but any scientist using his scientific tools and methods would see a world created billions of years ago, yes?
NUMBER TWO:
im not going to elaborate here. any maimon should know the following already. if you dont understand it i wont be able to teach it to you.
Hashem created the world for man. He created it for man to exercise BECHIRAH.
if all of the evidence of man pointed to the creation being merely 5769 years ago there would be no room for disbelief, there would be little room for apikorsus.
THERE WOULD BE NO WAY TO SEPARATE BETWEEN THOSE WHO HAVE ABSOLUTE EMUNAH IN THE G-D OF SCIENCE, AND THOSE WHO HAVE EMUNAH IN CHAZAL. there would not be the ordeal we must go through in the days before Moshiach, whether we will belive in man or in Hashem.