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To: fishtank
When a person says this or that “should have happened” it indicates they think they have a much deeper understanding of the cosmos than they really do.

What if the planetary rings are a million years old instead of a billion or more? Does that make the cosmos or the earth only a few thousand years old?

Much of science is speculation but speculative error is also the error of the young earth people.

9 posted on 02/15/2013 12:36:34 PM PST by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: count-your-change

I believe the current theory is that the rings are constantly being renewed by out gassing of moons, collisions among other smaller bodies etc. Not to mention the countless collisions that must be happening among the ring materials.

There are lots of organic compounds in space. None of it shakes my faith in God. Even Newton who was very much the pure scientist believed that comets were messengers from God. From what we’ve seen today, I’d have a hard time disagreeing with him. To me it says God wants us to get off our butts and start seriously thinking about how to prevent the impacts.


16 posted on 02/15/2013 12:49:05 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: count-your-change

The evidence plainly makes the Earth only a few thousand years old.

There is zero speculation in that fact; it is pure observation without application of an extraneous agenda.


64 posted on 02/17/2013 4:19:39 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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