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To: spirited irish
Spirited: Enough with scientistic quibbles, let’s cut to the chase. Macroevolution and not microevolution is the real issue of contention. Macroevolution is the notion that long, long ago a bit of primordial slime-—through many changes (reincarnation works just as nicely)——became a lizard, then a fish, then a simian, and finally by way of an evolutionary quantum leap in consciousness (thanks to the magic-offices of the Ineffable Force within the evolution deity)the simian became ‘aware’ and then Presto, Chango! there appeared a human—soulless of course.

Sorry, wrong.

The issue over radiocarbon dating pertains to a young earth. Because radiocarbon dating provides considerable evidence in excess of 6,000 years many creationists feel that the method must be discredited. That is the whole point of the "quibble" that we discussed yesterday.

699 posted on 12/30/2008 1:22:38 PM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman

Are you implying that dating rocks isn’t the best and highest use of carbon dating?


700 posted on 12/30/2008 1:51:36 PM PST by js1138
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To: Coyoteman

Whenever a Darwinian materialist (that’s you) argues radiocarbon dating (or any scientistic theories, for that matter)he is placing the cart before the horse.
Before he can argue scientistic theory, he must establish before all else exactly how it is that a soulless meat machine at the mercy of natural forces whose brain is mysteriously implanted with ‘thought’ by an impersonal intelligence hovering somewhere in the unseen realm knows anything? After all, materialism, like it’s flip-side pantheism, posits that man is nothing more than a tiny, insubstantial part of Nature, variously called Dialectical Matter (Marx’s divinized Matter Entity), Elan Vital, the Absolute, Overmind, the Force, etc.

Lacking soul, mind, conscience, reason, and free will, the meat machine is fully caused and determined by unseen forces of Nature. Hence it is merely a puppet dancing to the tune of unseen forces. Whatever words come out of its mouth were put there by Something Else. As there is no ‘you,’ it is this Something Else which speaks of radiocarbon testing.

Coyoteman is merely a body tagged with the name Coyoteman.


709 posted on 12/30/2008 2:47:26 PM PST by spirited irish
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