I do agree with the creationists on one point. We often make wild assumptions based on small amounts of data. If scientists in 5 million years come down, find only the elephant man's remains, they will have a very strange view of what human's were like. Sometimes the guesses are very educated, other times, later discoveries prove them wrong. But, the sticking your head in the sand and pretending that the earth is 6,000 years old crowd really is getting silly. Most christian denominations have moved beyond that, including the Catholic Church. Maybe, one day, the rest of the lot will as well.
That would be fun. But most of them don't go quite that far.
I do agree with the creationists on one point. We often make wild assumptions based on small amounts of data. If scientists in 5 million years come down, find only the elephant man's remains, they will have a very strange view of what human's were like. Sometimes the guesses are very educated, other times, later discoveries prove them wrong. But, the sticking your head in the sand and pretending that the earth is 6,000 years old crowd really is getting silly. Most christian denominations have moved beyond that, including the Catholic Church. Maybe, one day, the rest of the lot will as well.
Yah. there are a lot of premature "victories". But the good thing in that scenario is that a lot of scientists review the evidence pretty thuroughly. Even if refuted, it makes for quick and pretty solid results in the end.
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