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24 Sep 2015, 9:15 am

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The world is more than 6000 years old----end of story!
Maybe it is... but how do you know that it is?

Uniformitarianism is a speculation that cannot be reconciled with observations.



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24 Sep 2015, 9:45 am

Oldavid wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
The world is more than 6000 years old----end of story!
Maybe it is... but how do you know that it is?

Uniformitarianism is a speculation that cannot be reconciled with observations.


How can the Earth be 6000 years old if there are things on Earth which are more than 6000 years old. We know that there are even trees that are older than 6000 years, we can date them by counting the tree rings.



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24 Sep 2015, 4:28 pm

Jono wrote:
Oldavid wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
The world is more than 6000 years old----end of story!
Maybe it is... but how do you know that it is?

Uniformitarianism is a speculation that cannot be reconciled with observations.


How can the Earth be 6000 years old if there are things on Earth which are more than 6000 years old. We know that there are even trees that are older than 6000 years, we can date them by counting the tree rings.
Can you be sure that one ring always = 1 year? Can you be sure that every tree began as a seed from a tree that couldn't exist if there wasn't a tree to produce the seed that produced the tree?

Strange things found in coal and "ancient" sediments quite wreck the uniformitarian assumptions.



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25 Sep 2015, 1:20 am

Oldavid wrote:
Jono wrote:
Oldavid wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
The world is more than 6000 years old----end of story!
Maybe it is... but how do you know that it is?

Uniformitarianism is a speculation that cannot be reconciled with observations.


How can the Earth be 6000 years old if there are things on Earth which are more than 6000 years old. We know that there are even trees that are older than 6000 years, we can date them by counting the tree rings.
Can you be sure that one ring always = 1 year? Can you be sure that every tree began as a seed from a tree that couldn't exist if there wasn't a tree to produce the seed that produced the tree?

Strange things found in coal and "ancient" sediments quite wreck the uniformitarian assumptions.


How about the fact that with evidence from astronomy, we know that the universe is 13 billion years old. Did God put every single photon in just the right place to make the universe look 13 billion years old? Did God put all the transitional fossils in the ground just to make us think that evolution is true? Why? Is God a deceiver?



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25 Sep 2015, 1:25 pm

Yep, I would urge oldavid to google EGS-zs 8-1.

It is visible to us now as it looked nine billion years or so before our own Earth even came into being.


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25 Sep 2015, 3:23 pm

I heard a fantastic quote once: "lack of evidence is not evidence". Nobody can prove that God doesn't exist, nor can his existence be proven. Therefor, nobody can scientifically argue either side.

There is a whole Earth of evidence to prove that the Earth is over 4.5 billion years old. YEC cannot be proven to be true, but it can be proven as false.



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01 Oct 2015, 10:32 am

There is no "evidence from astronomy" or anything else.

Look, fellas, I've seen the kidie's picture books. I've been to Primary School. I've been to University. I've seen the television picture shows like all the rest of you... but I've also seen the arguments against and I've had 40 years to think about them all.

There are also knowledgeable folk who can do the maths that prove fancy is not fact.



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01 Oct 2015, 11:34 am

Oldavid wrote:
There is no "evidence from astronomy" or anything else.

Perhaps you might quibble about the use of "astronomy", but there is considerable evidence that the universe used to be a point singularity several billion years ago.



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02 Oct 2015, 4:36 am

The_Walrus wrote:
Oldavid wrote:
There is no "evidence from astronomy" or anything else.

Perhaps you might quibble about the use of "astronomy", but there is considerable evidence that the universe used to be a point singularity several billion years ago.
Tell us about it. I've seen the kiddie's picture books, the wonderful sales pitches on popular TV, I've been to University doing science... but, perhaps you can jiggle or juggle the Laws of Nature to make ideological fads into facts.



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02 Oct 2015, 5:18 am

This thread is a good example supporting the argument of outlawing religion. How can this species ever improve and achieve it's full potential when it is burdened with this blinkered mindset.



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02 Oct 2015, 10:12 am

Oldavid wrote:
There is no "evidence from astronomy" or anything else.

Look, fellas, I've seen the kidie's picture books. I've been to Primary School. I've been to University. I've seen the television picture shows like all the rest of you... but I've also seen the arguments against and I've had 40 years to think about them all.

There are also knowledgeable folk who can do the maths that prove fancy is not fact.


I wouldn't talk about "fancy" if I were you.

You're the one who just informed us above that: there is a magic force that causes trees to suddenly grow rings a million times faster than normal after trees reach a certain age. You didnt state that in so many words, but its the only way that your actual words would make any sense. But you make no attempt to identify what that magic force is that causes trees to suddenly act so radically different than they act now, much less prove that this force exists. So you're the one trafficking in "fancy".

And you're the one who also informed us above that there is also some other magic force that causes sediment to suddenly be dropped a million times faster than normal rate of deposition after a certain short time span. Again you dont identify this force. Again you appear to be trafficking in "fantasy".

And since you all mentioned "maths", and "astronomy": our next door neighbor is the Andromeda Galaxy which is two million light years away. If the universe were only 6000 years old why are we able to see the Andromeda Galaxy? The light from it wouldnt have reached us yet.



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02 Oct 2015, 11:59 am

Agree with the above. A galaxy has been discovered which is 13 billion light years away. Such distances boggle the mind!

So it existed before the Earth or our solar system did!


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08 Oct 2015, 9:08 am

This thread is a good example of censorship .

I've tried a couple of times to reply but the replies have been scuttled.



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08 Oct 2015, 9:39 am

what do you mean?

Did you have to do those captcha things?

Maybe you just did them wrong.



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08 Oct 2015, 5:26 pm

Oldavid wrote:
The_Walrus wrote:
Oldavid wrote:
There is no "evidence from astronomy" or anything else.

Perhaps you might quibble about the use of "astronomy", but there is considerable evidence that the universe used to be a point singularity several billion years ago.
Tell us about it. I've seen the kiddie's picture books, the wonderful sales pitches on popular TV, I've been to University doing science... but, perhaps you can jiggle or juggle the Laws of Nature to make ideological fads into facts.


OK, so you know about redshift and cosmic microwave background radiation? Conclusive evidence that the universe is billions of years old.



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08 Oct 2015, 6:45 pm

marshall wrote:
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By what means and with what evidence, would you prove false, the hypothesis that the earth is a few thousand years old, and was created by a supernatural being?

If you can't falsify your hypothesis, then there's no way for you to prove it. If you can't prove it, will you shut up for good?

So let's hear it. How do you prove false, the idea that the world was created by god a few thousand years ago?


Young earth creationism can and has been be falsified, like 150 years ago! The only way people can still accept a 10,000 year old earth is to ignore evidence, rely on total misinformation, or use some kind of absurd ad-hoc reasoning to explain away the inconsistencies in their “theory”. There’s just too many independent sources of evidence pointing to an earth that’s on the order of 5 billion years old.

You don’t even have to go into the whole falsifiability problem. YEC is just flat out BS that can be proven to be BS.


Proposing an alternative theory does not falsify or prove false an already existing one. This whole thread is riddled with fallacy.


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