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To: Right Wing Professor
Well, I'm not that entity, and that entity provided your answers in a book. Whether you consider them sufficient or not is between you and Him. But, you've answered my question as to whether or not I could post a single thing that would sway your opinion. Thank you.
1,372 posted on 08/19/2003 10:50:55 AM PDT by DittoJed2
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To: DittoJed2
Well, I'm not that entity, and that entity provided your answers in a book.

Lotsa entities are claimed to have lotsa answers in lotsa books. it's nothing against your particular entity; I'm inclined to disbelieve any creation account by any primitive people which had neither the knowledge nor the intellectual framework to understand a scientific approach to origins.

But, you've answered my question as to whether or not I could post a single thing that would sway your opinion.

Not a single thing, no. The foundation of evolution is not a single thing; it's a large body of evidence. You would need a similarly weighty set of evidence to convince me otherwise; and you would need to come up with an alternative theory that is consistent with scientific evidence, not directly in conflict with a large part of it.

1,382 posted on 08/19/2003 11:01:29 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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But, you've answered my question as to whether or not I could post a single thing that would sway your opinion. Thank you.

Taking a look at for a reasonable list of data that could be convincing.

To present a scientific argument for a literal interpretation of Genesis and YEC you would have to provide an explanation for all the theories of physics that have accumulated over the last 200 years -- something consistent with the data, yet demonstrates that current understanding is out-of-date.

You would have to prove that radioactive dating is wrong, without violating all the physical laws that require it to be correct. Once you substitute your new improved physicl laws, you could re-date the geological strata. Once you have done that and demonstrated that all the extinct species could have lived together at one time, you need to do something about biomass. You need to explain how all the animals and plants that contributed to such phenomena as coal and pead could have lived together without enveloping the earth in a 300 thick carpet.

that would be a start.

1,400 posted on 08/19/2003 11:57:01 AM PDT by js1138
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