Moose said:
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I believe that anybody who has a belief system that includes the "Young" of YECism is badly out of touch with worldly realities.
Thronacx writes:
Let me reply with a certain 2 year old's favorite saying.
"WHY?"
Because we've falsified any notion of the Earth having existed for less than 10,000 years with several independant methods.
Thronacx writes:
since no one posting on this forum was alive 100 years ago let alone a 1000 or a million whose can say what really happend. All we can do is use the data and our own imagination to "deduce" a story that seems reasonable to us.
Come on.
ALL of our observations are to some degree indirect, and
every observation we make of external reality infers naturalistically into the past whether you're observing 8 minutes old photons from the sun hitting your retina or 4 light years old photons from Alpha Centauri. Unless you can present a convincing argument that the relevant observed regularities in the behavior of the universe have not remained constant in the extended past, any doubt about the general accuracy of our chronologies, or at the very least about the maximal margins of error of those chronologies, is unreasonable.
[This message has been edited by ::, 12-04-2003]
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