[mrjesse]

Said TXnMA: You seem to get it right on the small scale, so I am interested in where your reasoning falls apart so badly as to allow you to be suckered into to the concept of a young universe.(Emph. his)

Good Day, TXnMA!

Say, I've noticed that you haven't yet taken a chance to respond to my earlier in-depth response to your question about how my reasoning allegedly falls apart so badly.

I also notice that you were kind of harsh on folks with whom you disagree on the age of the earth. Then you lay out a rather harsh insult inferring that my reasoning falls apart and that I got suckered into something. But then when I responded logically, you all the sudden won't talk to me anymore to date.

What am I to think? It looks to me as if you parade news of your alleged superior intelligence and learning over folks and then insult them for their alleged ignorance trying to shame them into agreeing with you - but if someone actually accepts your challenge and addresses the issues, you all the sudden just ignore them and refuse to address the very issues you yourself raised.

How can I, as an honest person, come to any conclusion other then that you're not using truth but insults to try to make your point but don't have the integrity to actually stick by what you say or give meaning and body to your empty insults?

Is there something I missed? Considering the evidence before me, how can I honestly reach another conclusion?

I'm not asking these rhetorically - I sincerely would like an honest answer from you if you might be so kind.

So please, let's not just throw insults and then run - let's have the discussion! As a scientist (unpaid for which as I may be) and a Christian I truly am interested in the truth. How are you going to teach me anything new if all you can do is make vague insults and run?

So please, go on ahead and take a whack at my earlier post to you. There's got to be something you can teach me. If not, then it's really not nice to insult someone in telling them they are wrong then refuse to show them how they are wrong. What's the point? Why tell someone they are wrong in an unkind manner when you are then unwilling to teach them the truth even when they are perfectly willing to examine the evidence in search of the truth?

Thank you very much and have a wonderful day,

-Jesse

[hosepipe]

I read your "earlier post" and this one too.. there seems to be way to many questions and allusions to questions.. couched in snarky similes.. to approach seriously..

This forum works best with simple questions not all tangled up like a birds nest.. However; the time-line on when/how the earth was "formed" and the time-line of when humans appeared/were created could be different.. Not the same at all.. Overlooking the possibility Genesis ch 1-3 might be mostly metaphorical.. if not completely..

This planet maybe took zillions of "years" to age/percolate but humans may be fairly recent additions to it.. That is if "time" is indeed lineal at all.. Except from a human perspective..

If the third person on this planet did not come from the first two.. a huge yarn must be constructed.. You know, science fiction.. Because science fiction must be very logical else whats the point.. Science fact/reality need not be logical at all.. Reality has nothing to prove..

Adam and Eve could be composites and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil may be metaphorical.. as well as the Tree of Life.. Being locked into a linear time-line could be the "first-mistake".. generating a birds nest of other errors.. The Bible could be constructed on the "KISS" principle.. How did Jesus walk on unfrozen water?.. Did he?.. Or is that merely legend?..