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Saber-toothed tiger (smilodon) fossils are regularly dated to the Pleistocene (such as here), which would put them before animals existed according to many Christians (at the earliest, ~12,000 years ago).

How do Christians who reject animals existing >7,000 years ago reconcile their views with the Pleistocene-existing saber-toothed tigers, according to scientific sources?

Only True God
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  • I thought that you find these types of questions funny :) –  Apr 04 '21 at 18:03
  • @SpiritRealmInvestigator I do, but if the mods are going to censor my answers to these sorts of questions, I might as well start asking them. There's an infinite supply of them. – Only True God Apr 04 '21 at 18:05
  • @AnthonyBurg What was the gist of your answer that was censored? –  Apr 04 '21 at 18:43
  • This is a really interesting question — I've been wondering something similar, but related to campion seeds. –  Apr 04 '21 at 18:55
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    Well, the answer is that those same Christians question the correctness of the aforementioned dating methods. Not without cause, either. Your premise seems flawed. – Matthew Apr 04 '21 at 19:47
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    Wow, @k_n_c , that's a really interesting question! Surprised I didn't think of it myself! – Only True God Apr 04 '21 at 20:11
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    I'm voting to close this as duplicate with the other question about plants. YEC almost always respond in the same way to claims of earthbound things older than their claimed creation date. They only differ when it's about astronomical entities. – DJClayworth Apr 04 '21 at 20:57
  • Wish granted. –  Apr 04 '21 at 22:49

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I think your premise may be flawed.

You ask about "Christians who reject animals existing >7,000 years ago", but that implies Young Earth Creationists, who reject anything (other than God, of course) existing more than 7,000 years ago.

This means that they also reject any dating of any worldly substance (at least on Earth, but that's a whole other can of worms) which claims an age of more than 7,000 years. So there is no "reconciling" to be done; the Christians you are asking about reject your implied premise.

If you are genuinely curious to learn more, here are a couple places you can go that will start to give you some information on the basis of YEC rejection of Uniformitarian dating:

https://creation.com/how-old-is-the-earth
https://answersingenesis.org/age-of-the-earth/

If you want something with a little more meat, I cannot recommend strongly enough that you read the R.A.T.E. report. You can read a summary here, or download the full report here (fair warning: this is a book; 686 pages long). The second report may also be available. (Personally, I own both in physical form.)

Matthew
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