Posted on 01/08/2006 2:56:32 PM PST by Dichroic
Most paleontologists look into the mouth of an allosaurus and see a prehistoric eating machine with a jaw full of flesh-tearing teeth.
Peter DeRosa peers into that mouth and sees the hand of God.
Working from a business park about 80 miles north of Tampa, Fla., DeRosa and his family are hammering away at two bedrock principles of modern science: evolution and the notion that Earth is about 4 billion years old.
The DeRosas are part of a small but growing band of creationists using dinosaurs - the icons of an ancient Earth - to argue that the world is only 6,000 years old. The DeRosas' tool of choice? The fossilized bones of Ebenezer the allosaurus and other creatures cramming their makeshift laboratory.
"It's very clear in Scripture. God's word is true," said DeRosa, 22.
"Everything we've found supports that." The DeRosas run Creation Expeditions, a ministry that relies on dinosaurs to spread what they say is the infallible word of the Bible.
The family operation includes Peter, his brother Mark, sister Leah, and parents Pete and Linda.
The DeRosas have no formal training but have studied dinosaurs and fossils for more than a decade. .......... The DeRosas' digs have produced impressive results. They have uncovered a 22-foot-long allosaurus - a smaller relative of the T. rex - and a 15-foot-tall edmontosaurus, a plant-eating, duck-billed dinosaur.
The DeRosas and their movement, in essence, are trying to turn science against itself.
By digging up fossils and interpreting their finds, some creationists hope to convince others that evolution and a 4-billion-year-old Earth are nonsensical notions unsupported by the data.
They maintain, for example, that they've found organic plant matter buried with fossils indicating the animals died only a few thousand years ago.
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I had this very same discussion yesterday
at a gathering. The individual was pointing
to cro-magnon man and neanderthals whom
he stated had no souls.
Made me really uncomfortable.
Finding microbial life on Mars would force the conlcusion that life on Earth was seeded by life on Mars because even Dawkins admits that the odds of abiogenesis are fantastically remote. He ducks around the issue by saying basically that, well, there are lots of worlds, and lots of time, and it only has to happen once, you know (paraphrase from the Blind Watchmaker).
But, interestingly enough, they always seem to be the SAME mutations, or mutations that result in the same effects. Random mutations causing random variation does not seem to occur.
So what?
So where did Cain's wife come from?
Yeah, that would make his sisters younger than him. What's your point?
Cain married his wife before Adam had daughters. So where did the women come from? Adams first wife?
Where do you get that idea?
Did he marry his SISTER?
Yes.
Wow!
That was the only option & the gene pool was ultra clean then. This preceded the Mosiac law, so there was no problem.
Think: Adam was the first man, Eve was the first woman, and Cain was their son. ANY women in the world HAD to be Adam & Eve's daughters.
What about Adam's first wife?
OK, you've now convinced me you're just messing around. Buh bye.
The story is common knowledge.
This post you made contains nothing but creationist's dreams. It is not science, but a ridiculous attempt to distort science to a particular result. (Its not only wrong, but spectacularly wrong!)
Tell me, how many scientists who actually do radiocarbon dating have signed on to this?
the group met and delineated a five-year plan of research to explain the apparent disparity between conventional and biblical dates.
That's a laugh. Most biblical scholars don't even believe what you are peddling. Check out these links:
ReligiousTolerance.org Carbon-14 Dating (C-14): Beliefs of New-Earth Creationists
The American Scientific Affiliation: Science in Christian Perspective Radiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective by Dr. Roger C. Wiens.
This site, BiblicalChronologist.org has a series of good articles on radiocarbon dating.
How does the radiocarbon dating method work? (The Biblical Chronologist, Vol. 5, No. 1)
How precise is radiocarbon dating?
Is radiocarbon dating based on assumptions?
Has radiocarbon dating been invalidated by unreasonable results?
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Son, I know a bit about radiocarbon dating.
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Yes father, I think you do. But I think there are other people who also DO radio carbon dating who disagree with you. You may call them ignorant, thats fine with me. But I don't think you can dismiss their academic credentials so easily.
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This post you made contains nothing but creationist's dreams.
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Maybe we can replace dreams with challenges.
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It is not science, but a ridiculous attempt to distort science to a particular result. (Its not only wrong, but spectacularly wrong!)
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Very nice attack. But the devil is in the details.
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Tell me, how many scientists who actually do radiocarbon dating have signed on to this?
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1) How many scientists during Galileo's time actually supported him ? ANSWER : A MINORITY
2) How many scientists during Jenner's time believed him ?
Since we are into links, might as well provide some to balance the ones you provided :
Evidence from the Gulf of Mexico to examine various approaches to stratigraphy within the creation model.
http://www.trueorigin.org/cfjrgulf.asp
Geology and the Age of the Earth
http://www.trueorigin.org/walkergeo01.asp
Examining the credibility of the much-publicized geologic column (and why it always seems to look bigger in print!).
http://www.trueorigin.org/geocolumn.asp
Examining the facts behind radiometric (& other) dating methods cited by evolutionists to prove their million-year scenarios.
http://www.trueorigin.org/dating.asp
Examining the documentations provided by National Geographic regarding radio carbon dating.
http://www.trueorigin.org/natgeo_jw01.asp
Examining the science behind the claims of a very old earth using carbon dating techniques
http://www.trueorigin.org/old_earth_evo_heart.asp
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