Question About the Universe

I remember a time when the earth was believed to be around 2 billion years old. I do not recall ever hearing that horses are older than that. Perhaps that was one of the stories that creationists were telling back then. I also do not remember a time when aborigines were believed to have only been there for 3,000 years.And, yes, I grew up in Australia and was attending school there in the 1940sIt is true that Australians looked down on aborigines, but I don't think I would compare that to US and slavery. A better comparison with US slavery, would be the import of Kanakas (South Sea islanders) to work as slaves in the Queensland sugar plantations.

This is absurd.You made assertions about the consensus of scientists, but your assertions appear to be wrong.You are, of course, entitled to disagree with the scientific consensus. But you are not entitled to misrepresent it. You seem to think it a fault of science, that it is not a rigid evidence denying dogma.It is usually considered one of the strong points of science, that when scientists develop better methods they can change what were previous tentative conclusions.

Some do; some don't. If that's "only logical", can you provide the logic. Because I don't think that follows, unless you only mean "some atheists."

I guess I should take that as an admission that no, you cannot provide the logic.You cannot demand that I fill supply what's missing, because it was your claim.There have been a number of people who have said that they are spiritual but not religious. I'm not at all sure what that is supposed to mean.I think, for some people, "spiritual" refers to the human spirit. So people who are not economic materialists, who value friendships and relations, might claim that they are spiritual.

(a) the sky is a domed ceiling above the earth;
(b) the sun, moon and stars are moving light fixtures in that domed ceiling;
(c) the luminosity of the ceiling (during the daytime) is independent of the light coming from the sun;
(d) there are waters above the ceiling;