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dartax

Learning with creation science

Aug 04, 2009 11:18

Sometimes I feel like I have learned more science reading creation websites than I did in high school. Why? Because creation science websites regularly use science knowledge to show the flaws in evolutionary thought. My own belief in the creation of the earth by God does make these sites more comfortable for me to read. Even still, sometimes I read ( Read more... )

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deviltenchi August 6 2009, 00:50:42 UTC

I have nothing but respect for peoples beliefs but I still find it purely ridiculous to believe that the earth is younger than 10,000 years, there is just too much rock solid scientific evidence proving otherwise.

I'm not trying to bash any religion, I just wish religion would stay in its own corner and stop making a mockery of science. If I wanted my children to learn so called "Intelligent Design" I would send them to seminary.

I just want religion to stop poking its nose into everything, if people want to find god, great, just leave everything else alone in the process.

Sorry for the rant, I mean no disrespect.

dartax August 6 2009, 02:18:52 UTC

And there are those that believe it is ridiculous to believe that the earth is older than 10,000 years. What I found interesting was that the scientific evidence given for why it was impossible for life to exist more than 10,000 years ago uses the same logic that people date the earth by radioactive decay or assume that rocks take millenia to form. The argument for a maximum of 10,000 years assumed that the decay of magnetic fields have not varied from what we can measure today. So when I question how many variables might actually effect radioactive decay, I also question the creation scientists who then assume the decay of a planetary body's magnetic field does not have any unaccounted for variables. Questioning the claimed constant of magnetic decay does not change my view of a young earth (besides, with an LDS perspective, I actually believe the creationists get part of it wrong too as I believe the stuff the earth is made is far older than the earth is), nor do I believe that some statement about the magnetic field and its decay ( ... )