Science requires faith, chat gtp agrees.

Don't confuse hard-headedness with strength.

Some years ago you had an interaction with a member named rrhain. He suggested an experiment: put an inch or so of water in a bathtub, then put a brick in it (dry land). Then scoop up some of the water and pour it over the brick. That was an analogy of the Flood, illustrating how it is impossible to cover all of the existing land with the existing water. You professed, post after post, to not understand the obvious. You were either a huge idiot or you were lying about how huge an idiot you were.

I have never seen either one. Don't make assumptions about me.

I just elaborated a bit in my response to Percy Message 2001but I couldn't find your exact post asking me that specific question so I'll just answer it here.My "religious" friends would likely warn me about abandoning the truth that I know and setting it aside as you suggest one *must* do if they honestly want to utilize critical thinking. Well, yet again im a rebel. I am taking the course and I will keep in mind that I could be wrong about certain thinking patterns and ideas...but I'm not a 12 year old Catholic who never met Jesus and decided to throw his beliefs in the gutter as his scientific and rational mind took flight. You have some preconceived ideas that you might need to let go of too. One of them is that the Bible is a poor source of wisdom. You people have nothing better.

How can I dispute what I haven't studied?

Oh, Phat-man. Tom Sawyer is a better source of human wisdom then your bible. And I can cite about 2 dozen gazillion more works.

Feisty, arent we? Better use some of your bullets...because I'll make assumptions about you all week long and twice on Sunday. Granted I will keep revising my assumptions as you give me more written ammunition to work with. And FYI...you make assumptions about me based on what I write ALL the time.

Oh, AZ! You and Becky Thatcher would have made a cute couple!

Im skeptical about stuff that I dont know or cannot see. I accept the science as to how old the planet likely is. Im skeptical about anything to do with YEC, but there is a slim possibility that we *all* are wrong.

Yes, I thought so. At the time I read it Becky and I became quite familiar.

In this day and age, I'd rather trust God than I would humanity. I try and love them all, however. Im just not gonna buy into an eventual global government...if such a Beast would ever rise up.

You and your friends think it rebellious to want to be able to think clearly? Don't you think that's that's a bit screwed up?And I'm not talking about your religious beliefs. That's the third time I've said that. Keep you damn beliefs, they're irrelevant.Critical thinking is not about religion, it's about thinking rationally. You can't think in a straight line. You think you can and every so often you like to tell people that you're at least as smart as everyone here, but you're evidentially not. But regardless of how clever you are, you can learn some fairly simply thinking skills that you'll find useful in your general life and make you look less like a loon to others. You see, you didn't think about that did you? You just shot from the hip, a defensive reflex. I think that the bible is a good source of wisdom - if somewhat unoriginal - but it's not a good source of fact. Strange then that we people seem to manage just fine isn't it?

And you'll be wrong. "Based on what you write" are conclusions, not assumptions. riVeRraT's assumptions that I was referring to, were about what (American) news networks I watch. I have not written about that. He was pulling his assumptions out of his ass.Try thinking for once. You won't fry either side of your brain.

You can't see God, so you ought to be skeptical. As I said, you might as well not be. You're not really accepting science. You're just cherry-picking the parts you want to accept. That isn't how science works.

Yet you do. Repeatedly.