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Vacate
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Message 112 of 142 (502740)
03-13-2009 4:46 AM
Reply to: Message 109 by Sky-Writing
03-13-2009 3:16 AM


Explanations for incredible claims
If a person is looking to disprove something, they will seek out evidence to support their decision and ignore, or even be blind to evidence to the contrary.
Great point, I could not agree more.
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Vacate
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Message 117 of 142 (502781)
03-13-2009 9:56 AM
Reply to: Message 114 by Sky-Writing
03-13-2009 6:34 AM


Re: Explanations for incredible claims
Like I said, I'm not going to argue about a 700,000 YO earth.
That's fine with me. I'm not concerned about what Exact year God
Created our existence.
What an interesting position to take! I had asked: Do you just believe with no thought about it and the indirect answer is yes. Then you casually insert your declaration that God created existence; as if, with no thought necessary you get to trumpet a victory.
Twenty years experience in science but you have little trouble dismissing entire fields of science as if populated by a pack of lunatics. (Invitations to hellish nightmares?) Is this how you spent your twenty years of R&D for Standard Oil; dismissing opposing viewpoints with a casual wave of the hand? I bet not.
Perhaps you should look into the fields with an open mind and actually try to "be concerned" with the science before dismissing it. I would expect that to be the proper way of learning something. A hose in a sandbox is a pretty shoddy way of conducting an experiment and if it actually produced results anything compared to annual varve deposits perhaps a geologist would have noticed by now?
If a person is looking to disprove something, they will seek out evidence to support their decision and ignore, or even be blind to evidence to the contrary.
Wise words, and thus far an excellent demonstration.

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