There are very few people that actually believe the world is 10,000 years old. Those that do are fundamentalist that look at things like dinosaurs and other things that point to a time before the history laid out it genesis as temptation from the devil.
Who knows maybe they are right, the simple fact is that you can't prove that what we take as scientific fact could be based on something created outside of our understanding. > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > No, it makes you an idiot because you refute science that is accepted > by 99% of scientists (unlike the science surrounding global warming, > which is not "generally accepted" even among scientists). I don't > know how *ANYONE* can actually believe that the world is only 10,000 > years old or so. If you truly believe in creationism, then that's the > length of world history. > > And I really don't get how *ANYONE* can believe that. I think the > science of carbon dating is pretty sound. There's no indication of > dinosaurs in the bible. Why? Because 99% of the earth's history is > in the first few pages of Genesis, and most of it is glossed over or > left out. > > It is possible to believe in God *AND* evolution. You just have to > not take the bible quite so literally and realize that it was WRITTEN > by people who couldn't have understood that the earth was billions of > years old even if God himself had told them. > > Rick > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234069 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
