james bond
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Actually I do know how how they come up with the age of the Earth as 4.5 B years old? I also know where the 6,000 yeas old number came from, and how Lord Kelvin and Darwin arrived at their numbers. I doubt you care, you only wish to attack science and ignore the fact that Lord Kelvin and Darwin estimated the minimum age of the earth. Science text books change every year.because science is progressing and not stagnant.Science says the Earth is some 4.5 billion years old. How old do you believe it is?It's not just one has the young timeline while the other has the old.
Do you know how they come up with the age of the Earth as 4.5 B years old? And that science believed it was different in the past such as 6,000 years old, Lord Kelvin, the most famous physicist of his time, had it as 100 M (20 M - 400 M range) and Darwin had 306.7 M years old? Science text books change every year. So who's to say these guys are right now?
I also note you failed to answer my question.
Such a snotty attitude. Is it because you know science? I didn't hear any answers of how "they" came up with the age of the earth as 4.5 B yrs old, so it's not something you can readily explain. A scientist could, but not an internet atheist like @FortFunIndiana. And just who are "they" anyway? Who came up with 4.5 B years old? Hint: It's not Billy Nye nor Degrasse.
My answer to your question at one time was the same as what science stated as 4.5 B yrs old for the Earth and 13.7 B years for the universe because I learned about evolution myself through reading. The ToE didn't really apply to what I was learning anyway. It only mattered if you took biology, geology, paleontolgy and zoology in college. Around the 80s, no one thought evolution had to do with atheism. Who gave a flying f*ck about those weirdos anyway? Evolutionary thinking states they started off as pygmy tribe in Africa.
I talked with older adults and they were taught that the universe was eternal. And sure enough I found the steady state theory. I should have included that one after 6,000 years. I guess the earth was eternal, too. Then I became Christian in 2012 and started reading about creation science and the Bible. Around 2008, and especially 2011, I was already criticizing evolution as there really wasn't any definitive transitional fossils and I could not think of any example of macroevolution. The only thing ToE had going for it was natural selection, so I believed that and just bought the old earth and universe. Yet, the radiometric dating bothered me in that they got different ages for similar items. It didn't make sense to me to discard ones that didn't fit the timeline. Afterwards, the general or soft science articles in the news kept repeating the earth was 4.5 B yrs old and universe was 13.7 B yrs old, so much that it started to bother me. If we all knew it was so old and it was fact, then why keep telling us? Today, the media likes to point out how asteroids will be whizzing by so "close" to the earth and they'll usually give the 4.5 B yrs old earth in those articles. What are they trying to sell us? Asteroids aren't any threat at all. The only thing I can think of is they want us to be leery of the disaster and give us a reason to nuke some large meteor or possible asteroid in far space. But I digress.
Eventually, I started to read and listen to what creation scientists were saying. They had many prominent scientists such as Sir Francis Bacon, father of modern science, Sir Isaac Newton, Copernicus, Galileo, Louis Pasteur, Alfred Wegener, Rene Descartes, Blaise Pascal and Johannes Gutenberg and so on. Thus, I ended up comparing both and thought the creation science was more likely. It does not mean intelligent design, although there is intelligence behind the design, but a young earth, a 6,000 yr old Earth.
That's another stupid thing today's atheist scientists can't get over. They cannot admit to something they discover has a design, especially intelligence behind the design. That's just stupid. It's not the same as an ID argument.
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