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To: metmom; Dimensio

Dimensio said: I have witnessed that many creationists reject any science that contradicts what they wish to believe.

Then metmom replied: I know what you're referring to. I was thinking of the comments that creationists reject all science, which they don't. And there is a difference between young earth creationists and old earth creaionists. The latter aren't in that category.

As a YEC, I don't reject science either. What I remain highly skeptical about is folks claiming absolute scientific proof w/o regard to the numerous stated (and more frequently unstated) assumptions that allow for their conclusions.

Look closely enough at the things that are claimed as 'proven', you should see a pattern of ignoring the scientific method. The old earth/universe dating methods include assumptions like uniformitarianism.

Uniformitarianism is the best reason to reject the global warming crisis. It's even more ridiculous to think that things (i.e. radio isotope decay rates) have always remained constant over thousands (let alone millions/billions) of years.


236 posted on 06/02/2006 7:38:44 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels

Actually, Scripture doesn't support that conditions were always the same. The Fall brought corruption to the universe, hence change; and the Earth was watered by a dew, or mist, that rose up from the ground before the Flood. Gen 2: 5&6


240 posted on 06/02/2006 9:07:40 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: BrandtMichaels
As a YEC, I don't reject science either. What I remain highly skeptical about is folks claiming absolute scientific proof w/o regard to the numerous stated (and more frequently unstated) assumptions that allow for their conclusions.

Please identify an individual who has claimed "absolute scientific proof", given that nothing in science is ever "absolutely proven".
245 posted on 06/02/2006 12:21:33 PM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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