>> >>You say "The fact that you don't see things as I do indicates that maybe I am not doing as good a job of explaining >>"or you are not able to understand the issue." >> >>now who's calling names!? >> >No one is calling names, I simply stated the possibilities.
Oh, I thought your saying "or you are not able to understand the issue" suggested I wasn't smart enough to understand the issue.
> >>I'm not going to go on arguing this. But let me just ask you two questions: >> >>How old is the Earth? >> >>How long ago (and/or what was the date of) Noah's Flood? > > >The truth is neither of us know the answers to the above.
Alright, your best guesses then, given your beliefs, what the bible tells you (Give or take a few thousand years if you like, but the bible's more specific about the Flood)
>Are you saying carbon dating is exactly 100% accurate?
No, but if the evidence says "This rock is 20 billion years old" then I'm willing to allow several million years error.
>I don't take what science doles out as fact. There have been countless times when scientific "fact" has been disproven.
Yes, like the coming of the next Ice Age which was the flavour of the month in the 70s.
>Science is man's best guess at figuring out what God has done.
If you accept the existence of God, then I'm not disputing that. But I vehemently dispute that the writings of some primitive tribesmen, who haven't got the sense to not live in an arid dessert-like area, know nothing about the extent, structure, shape of the world, let alone the firmament, haven't even got TV or motorised transport, exhibit primitive maths and physics knowledge, etc. etc. (in other words lack the luxury of the vast extent of knowledge we have today) can come close to representing that. And I pity people who accept such as verbatim. Why should one trust the these people, who lived 1000s years ago were spoken to by God. Anyone can say that. In fact, when people do today, they get locked up. Why should we accept the words of people who are obviously less advanced than we?
Example, we send a modern steamship to a primitive island then ask the natives what's the fastest means of crossing the ocean, and they begin with "Well you get some rushes and bundle them together, real tight mind..."
>We think a lot of what science has come up with is accurate, but much of it is still questionable. The scientific community isn't even 100% on these issues. Global warming is now threating to cause global cooling?
Er, not exactly - it may disrupt the Gulf Stream and deflect it farther south, thus cutting off the balmy winters we enjoy in GB, France, etc.
>I think I've determined what causes global warming - it is scientist who need research funding. Create a cause then demand the governments pay to research it.
YOH! For once we're in agreement! :-)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night - Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
