Well, keep in mind, the number of people that assume the earth is only 6000 years old is very small. There are plenty that believe in the order put forth in genesis, but feel the earth is older than 6000 years.
They chalk that up to being the way the story went, that a day was relatively longer back then. Our day is based on the rotation of the earth. It is relative to what we know. _____ From: G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 11:26 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: What Do Creationists Make Of This? > I'm just thinking out loud here but what, then, do IDers make of > celestial science? The lord created the heavens and the earth. So....God made the stars and planets. > Where I'm going is that we use physics and chemistry to date and prove > the that dinosaurs were around X million years ago, etc. They simply reject that. They bury their heads in the sand and refuse to admit the validity of carbon dating. > Well that same science is used to discover, chart, and date planets, > stars, etc. The difference is that we can go to those planets and > have done so. So are planets and universe part of the big scam God is > pulling on us to test faith. And if, so, why even have the planets > and stars? I mean they don't add anything. Why have the dinosaurs? Why have tsetse flies or even humans? We only "add" in the capacity that we feel our presence to be beneficial. The answer to your question though might be a matter of methods. Whereas we would take a science, or a study, and lead to a belief.....an ID'er would start with a belief, and work back to a "science", or a debunking thereof. So we say: "Carbon dating proves that this animal lived around X million years ago." An ID'er: "The world is only a few thousand years old, so this animal could not have lived X million years ago." One approach is logical, the other aint. > It's not a fully developed thought, but there it is ... Hard to fully develop a thought about a thought that isn't fully developed to begin with. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:201716 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
