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| - The story takes place on present-day Earth. Maybe give or take a few decades or centuries. However, the world is really young. It doesn't have billions of years behind it, nope, it has only been around for a few thousand years. In either case, what about all the scientific evidence that the world is much, much older? What about ancient fossils and radiometric dating? What about starlight that has traveled at light-speed from distant galaxies for billions of years, and so on? There are several approaches to this: Examples of Earth Is Young include:
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| - The story takes place on present-day Earth. Maybe give or take a few decades or centuries. However, the world is really young. It doesn't have billions of years behind it, nope, it has only been around for a few thousand years. Note that in theory, that doesn't have to mean that the world is created. However, a young Earth usually come with some kind of creator in the form of a God, alien, time-travelling human or simply an author writing the story of our lives. If the creator is a computer programmer and our world is just a simulation rather than the real Earth, then see instead Inside a Computer System. In either case, what about all the scientific evidence that the world is much, much older? What about ancient fossils and radiometric dating? What about starlight that has traveled at light-speed from distant galaxies for billions of years, and so on? There are several approaches to this:
* The They Just Didn't Care approach: The world is young, period. In this setting, science agrees or is not practiced, so no conflict.
* The Science Is Wrong approach: "Scientists believe the silliest things, lol. Evidence Schmevidence." A subtype of this is also found where the 'official' scientific explanations were created by an Ancient Conspiracy as a way of misleading the public about things which they'd prefer were kept secret.
* The Jerkass Gods approach: Yeah, the evidence is there. But God or Satan placed it there as a Mind Screw or a test.
* The Post Modern approach: The world is as old or young as people believe it to be, or simply a far stranger place than we can comprehend. The theory that the universe was created six minutes ago, assuming that we all spawned completely with memories and unwashed clothes and everything, is equally valid to any other theory: Who said that time has to be linear, one-dimensional, or begin with creation anyway! The Earth might just as well have been created with a past, or time has expanded backwards as well as forward.
* The Lampshade Hanging approach: God did put the ancient-looking dinosaur skeletons there and everything, but didn't mean anything by it. He was simply decorating His creation! No examples of what people believe (or are claimed to believe) in real life, please. For those, see young Earth creationism at That Other Wiki. Examples of Earth Is Young include:
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