should i believe anyhting? ---------- >From: ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [MMouse]: 10,000 years old >Date: Wed, Dec 1, 1999, 2:51 PM > > More imporant than not believing everything you read (which is definitely a > good rule to live by, I'd have to say) is DON'T BELIVE EVERYTHING YOU'RE TOLD, > and DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU'RE TAUGHT, even if it's by the people who > you've learned to trust the most. The one thing you can do for yourself and > your own knowledge is pushing the limits of what you believe, and challenging > your own beliefs. Okay., so this doesn't have anything to do with Modest > Mouse. sorry. ryan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> In a message dated 12/1/99 3:13:16 AM Eastern Standard Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> << hmm. i am a christian. i believe the bible. i also believe in the >> creation theory. i believe the world is probably around 10,000 years old. >> it can't be undoubtedly proven that it is older, just like it can't be >> undoubtedly proven that the evolution theory is correct, just like it can't >> be undoubtedly proven that the creation theory is correct. >> >> ben, i know you're dying. >> johnny. >> >> >> K well, unless you have the scientific prowess to completely disprove carbon >> dating, which is something rediculous like 97.9% correct then maybe you have >> yourself an arguement. However, considering the oldest Primate/human they >> have found to date has been dated past 40,000 years I think there might be >> some problems with your theory. Do me a favor, take a few Geology Courses >> and then tell me what ya think. Im not sayin youre wrong, well, yes I am, >> but regardless, seriously, don't you think the smartest people in the world >> would know a little bit more about the Halflife of Carbon molecules then say >> you or I? For Christs sake, we actually had to perform carbon dating in my >> Geology class, thus making it a bit more of a theory than a hypothesis. >> Dont believe everything that you read. >> Jonathan > >
