It’s very frustrating because the young earth types will scurry back to their creationist web sites rather than listen to anything you say, regardless of how reasonable. I’ve gone to the web sites and listened to some of the videos. All patent nonsense. However, I can see how it can be attractive to someone with a strong faith in literal reading of the Bible and with a poor understanding of science.
I guess I’m irrational myself as I often reply regardless of a great lack of success.
JimSEA if you truly know anything regarding geology and science you ought to set BroJoeK straight regarding this statement...
“In the real world, all of science is based on certain assumptions, including naturalism and uniformitarianism.”
If that were so we would actually know much less than we do and could not truly call it science rather mere speculations.
JimSea: “It’s very frustrating because the young earth types will scurry back to their creationist web sites rather than listen to anything you say...”
I “get” all that, have long argued that they are perfectly entitled to believe whatever they wish, so long as they don’t call their religious beliefs “science” or pretend to judge science they don’t like (I.e. “historical sciences”) as somehow “not science”.
By US law, science is what scientists say it is, and it certainly includes assumptions like naturalism and uniformitarianism.
If **some people** don’t like it, that’s fine, but they can’t just define it away.
As for their arguments themselves, those are all easily answered, by anyone with time and patience to devote — time I sometimes do have, but not always.