[headsonpikes]

Thanks for posting this article.

I must admit I’m puzzled by the seeming hostility of many posters to the scientists and science involved.

[decimon]

I must admit I’m puzzled by the seeming hostility of many posters to the scientists and science involved.

They seemingly can't resist.

[DannyTN]

"I must admit I’m puzzled by the seeming hostility of many posters to the scientists and science involved."

I don't think you are seeing "hostility". But rather a bunch of us strongly doubt the consensus view on the age of the earth and the process by which the earth formed.

This article does an excellent job of calling those consensus views "speculation".

Usually when we run into consensus views on "age of the earth", "age of the universe", "macro-evolution", "process of the earth forming" or "global warming", the views are not presented as "speculation" but rather as "fact" with the certainty of religious dogma (note the questioning of the underlying worldview in post 9).

Consequently, those articles do reap hostility because of the non-scientific arrogance in the way the consensus views are presented.

This article lacks that arrogance, but you are still seeing objections to the consensus view.

In fact Wendy1946's post 18 does an excellent job of pointing out a further inconsistency in the consensus view model. If the heavy minerals in the earth's crusts are from extraterrestial sources, and not from the earth's original formation, then you can't really date the earth by those minerals.

[metmom]

Dan is right. It’s not hostility towards science.

That’s a typical accusation that occurs whenever someone disagrees with something, or points out flaws or errors in something.

The first that that the person is accused of is *hate* or *hostility*. You see it here on FR in regards to science and religion.

Questioning things is not hate or hostility. Challenging something is not hate or hostility.

Whatever happened to thinking for a change? Thinking outside the box? Is there something wrong with challenging existing presuppositions? How does anyone expect to learn anything if we just take in what we’re spoonfed and never go anywhere with it?

The only hostility that some may exhibit is when science is abused and misused as a weapon either for political gain or to destroy the foundations of our society, not against the pursuit of knowledge and use of it for the betterment of mankind’s lot.