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To: OneVike

Okay, clearly you believe in young earth, so I ask you this simple quesiton...

How old do you believe the Earth is, and what evidence do you cite to make that claim?

Are you suggesting that Geneisis in its original Hebrew gives the creation date?

Secondly are you suggesting, and with what evidence are you mounting for this, that animals and beasts found to live on the earth and believed by the hethens not to co-exist in time with Humanity did indeed do so?

Third, The great rusting of the oceans of the earth, that hethens believe happened for millions of years, and is evidenced by the massive iron deposits currently being mined, did not happen, how do you suggest they occurred?

None of these suggested things which counter the “young earth” hypothesis disprove God, and no theologian worth their salt has ever suggested that science is at odds with God.

The literal reading of the prehistory of the Bible is an ignorant philosophy that flies in the face of thousands of years of Theology.


46 posted on 04/29/2013 10:07:04 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

You ask;
Okay, clearly you believe in young earth, so I ask you this simple quesiton... How old do you believe the Earth is, and what evidence do you cite to make that claim?

I hold to the belief that the earth is approximately 10,000 years old. My evidence/ Come on. I would have to write a thesis for all the evidence. However, I will attempt to truncate a short list of some problems I have with an universe that is supposed to be billions of years old.

Galaxies wind themselves up too fast,
Too few supernova remnants,
Comets disintegrate too quickly,
There is not enough mud on the sea floor,
There is not enough sodium in the sea, the earth's magnetic field is decaying too fast,
Many strata are too tightly bent,
Biological material decays much too fast,
The fossil radioactivity shortens geologic "ages" to a few years,
There is too much helium in minerals,
there is too much carbon 14 in deep geologic strata,
There is not nearly enough Stone Age skeletons (we have gazillions of animal fossils and sea fossils some on Mountains too high for normal expalanation, which actually supports a major world wide flood),
The agriculture technology is way to recent,
Written history is too short and does not support the length of time human have been a live according to an old earth theory.

You ask;
Are you suggesting that Geneisis in its original Hebrew gives the creation date?

Not a date, but obviously it points to a young earth age.

You ask;
Secondly are you suggesting, and with what evidence are you mounting for this, that animals and beasts found to live on the earth and believed by the hethens not to co-exist in time with Humanity did indeed do so?

Actually we have many stories from ancients that dinosaurs existed with humans. We even have evidence of drawings in caves of extinct animals. Why would ancient Indians in Peruvian caves draw them if they did not exist?

You ask;
Third, The great rusting of the oceans of the earth, that heathens believe happened for millions of years, and is evidenced by the massive iron deposits currently being mined, did not happen, how do you suggest they occurred?

There has always been many problems with the way we have been measuring the age of things, and now we even have more evidence. This is from, News Science

Two of the solar system's best natural timekeepers have been caught misbehaving, suggesting that the accepted ages for the oldest known rock samples are off by a million years or more.

According to two new studies, a radioactive version of the element samarium decays much more quickly than previously thought, and different versions of uranium don't always appear in the same relative quantities in earthly rocks.

Both elements are used by geologists to date rocks and chart the history of events on our planet and in the solar system.

"If you have a critical event in Earth's history, something like an extinction event or a climate change shift or a meteorite impact, you need to know the absolute age with the most confidence," says Joe Hiess of the British Geological Survey, who led one of the studies. "In Earth sciences there's a need to be able to define what happened first and what happened second."

You ask;
None of these suggested things which counter the “young earth” hypothesis disprove God, and no theologian worth their salt has ever suggested that science is at odds with God.

However, man here at FR do claim that very thing, and that is why I mentioned it in my statement to you.

You ask;
The literal reading of the prehistory of the Bible is an ignorant philosophy that flies in the face of thousands of years of Theology.

Says you. You have neither a learned, nor a simple cursory understanding of Hebrew or Greek, let alone of Judeo/Christian Theology to make such an ignorant statement.

65 posted on 04/29/2013 11:10:05 AM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
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