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| MoleManFromMiddleMars:
--- Quote from: Bisjac on August 06, 2017, 02:59:56 PM ---i would blame Christianity, but the bible actually doesn't say anything at all about the age of the earth so im not sure where they get these numbers from. --- End quote --- The Jewish calendar starts at the supposed time God created everything. (6000 years ago), so 1 A.M (Anno Mundi) was the year of creationism, I think I remember reading that in a book about facts, including calendars. |
| Drydess:
heretic |
| SWAT One:
--- Quote from: MoleManFromMiddleMars on August 06, 2017, 01:53:45 PM ---Okay here is another idea, the Jewish calendar starts at the year that is said to be when God created the World and since Judaism was the first Abrahamic religion, it tends to apply to Christianity and such as well. --- End quote --- No, this isn't it either... Calendars are merely a human-created construct. The Chinese, Arabs, Jews and Christians, even North Koreans each have their own calendars and they are only a method of gauging time. If I pointed to a rope and said "It's 3 meters long" and you enter with your own measuring device and say "No, it's 5.3 hublahs long" it doesn't mean stuff. While I am a Christian and yes, believe that the Earth is young. I don't believe the Old Earth Theory because casting the idea that all knowledge of the origins of life, the Earth and the Universe was arrived through unaltered scientific method is an insult to the scientific method itself. In the Old Earth, have not experienced the events of the past in our time—It is not our experience and our observations in our time, and thus it is not our history. As a result, it undermines the strength of the argument. Furthermore, there is no way to test said gathered data after building a theory around it through experiments that will provide definitive proof that something is the way it is. Additionally, radiocarbon dating is less and less reliable he further you go back because you need exponentially greater equipment, something that is not possible with today's technology, and, with margins of error widening the further you go back, the less "scientific" the result ends up being. I have no beef whatsoever with Old Earthers believing hat they will and Young Earthers believing what they will, but under the purely scientific scope, neither is proven, and any person who struts about like an ass claiming it is as proven through science or the bible is a blinded zealot. |
| Insert Name Here²:
loving nut heads |
| MoleManFromMiddleMars:
--- Quote from: SWAT One on August 06, 2017, 06:12:32 PM ---No, this isn't it either... Calendars are merely a human-created construct. The Chinese, Arabs, Jews and Christians, even North Koreans each have their own calendars and they are only a method of gauging time. If I pointed to a rope and said "It's 3 meters long" and you enter with your own measuring device and say "No, it's 5.3 hublahs long" it doesn't mean stuff. While I am a Christian and yes, believe that the Earth is young. I don't believe the Old Earth Theory because casting the idea that all knowledge of the origins of life, the Earth and the Universe was arrived through unaltered scientific method is an insult to the scientific method itself. In the Old Earth, have not experienced the events of the past in our time—It is not our experience and our observations in our time, and thus it is not our history. As a result, it undermines the strength of the argument. Furthermore, there is no way to test said gathered data after building a theory around it through experiments that will provide definitive proof that something is the way it is. Additionally, radiocarbon dating is less and less reliable he further you go back because you need exponentially greater equipment, something that is not possible with today's technology, and, with margins of error widening the further you go back, the less "scientific" the result ends up being. I have no beef whatsoever with Old Earthers believing hat they will and Young Earthers believing what they will, but under the purely scientific scope, neither is proven, and any person who struts about like an ass claiming it is as proven through science or the bible is a blinded zealot. --- End quote --- Can you add a TL;DR please? |
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