I am an agnostic who is seeking Christ. I don't need snide remarks from non-believers, because, being one, I already have them in my head. I have a lot of hard questions and not a lot of answers. Here's one to which I am particularly interested to hear reactions:

It took hundred of years for modern English to evolve from a combination of French, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon. How can there be nearly 7000 languages actively spoken in the world, many of which have no clear connections to others, if one man and one woman were created 6000 years ago?

Never mind how long it would realistically taken their descendants to spread across and populate the Earth. And never mind how long it would take for those descendants to physically adapt to their environments (i.e. darker skin where there is more sunlight, various hair colors, physical attributes, etc.). And never mind that the ice bridge from Asia to North America would have long ceased to exist at that point (I have no problem saying this because Genesis begins with the earth already being there and, let's face it, we can go to the North Pole, drill a hole and see millions of years right in front of us).

Now, I realize that the Bible does not explicitly say how long ago man was created, but it provides a lineage that biblical scholars analyzed to arrive at the number six thousand-something years. I am more inclined to believe that they are mistaken in their calculation than to dismiss the idea that it "could" have "possibly" "actually" happened.