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To: Havoc
There is no physical evidence you can produce that argues against the account in Genesis.

An Earth and Solar System dated at a few billion years old; a fossil record that just happens to show a progression from the single-celled to multi-cellular to increasingly complex organisms over billions of years -- all corroborated by multiple dating types to obviate any discrepancies.

Of course, what you are saying is there is no physical evidence that we can produce that you will accept, regardless of its provenence. You are one of the few creationists who make no bones about flat-out rejecting any evidence that conflicts with your beliefs.

235 posted on 12/20/2004 3:42:56 AM PST by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: Junior
An Earth and Solar System dated at a few billion years old; a fossil record that just happens to show a progression from the single-celled to multi-cellular to increasingly complex organisms over billions of years -- all corroborated by multiple dating types to obviate any discrepancies.

Opinions are not evidence - nor are beliefs. There is no date stamp on the solar system requiring it to be older than scripture claims it is. 6000 years give or take a few. The fossil record shows only one thing - a bunch of stuff that used to be alive, died and was rapidly buried in such a way as to produce said fossils. Clams don't die with their shells shut, yet they're everywhere like that in the fossil record, telling us whatever hit them, hit them hard and suddenly.

Beyond that, there are multiple dating systems that do not verify anything any more than they give any kind of accurate basis to judge a date on anything to begin with. When dating methods place skin on a beast 30k years apart from bone, that isn't substantiating anything, much less arguing for accuracy of the system.

Of course, what you are saying is there is no physical evidence that we can produce that you will accept, regardless of its provenence

There is no physical evidence that disputes Scripture. Christians have not one single argument against any valid physical evidence that you can produce. And Valid means - non fraudulent (ie, Lucy among piles of others). Christian scripture has not one beef with valid evidences or with science for that matter. The beef is with evolution. Evolution isn't science - it's a belief system which is substantially a religion in and of itself. You project your beliefs on the evidence and want to call that science. Therein is the problem. And that is where the problem will remain until it is removed from the schools.

247 posted on 12/20/2004 4:18:07 AM PST by Havoc (Reagan was right and so was McKinley. Down with free trade.)
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