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Uh... how about a little less hostility here, guys? Let's get back to the topic, shall we? Shinbits was saying that science can't study supernatural events, and cited Noah's Flood as an example. This is correct, and here is why. Let's say the Flood happened. The cause of it is supernatural...

Don't mind if I do, Baggins. ^_^ Baggins demonstrated how oil is being created today. If you disagree with the process he described, present your arguments and evidence. ...Once again... There. Was. No. Global. Flood. There are no deposits on this planet that support a global flood...

Danger! Danger Will Robinson! Cognitive dissonance detected!

It mentions radiocarbon dating, and we all know how the creationists feel about that. Still pretty cool though.

I totally did not know that America and Canada are not Ireland. Really. Thanks for clearing that up. Honestly Robert, I explained that I'm posting from an Irish perspective. Please read people's posts before you respond. You know what you have to do. Show us the parts of creationism...

Church indoctrination will only work in places where people are still going to church, though. In Ireland, people my age rarely go to church and we have no such thing as Sunday School. Kids are brought to Mass, but it's a chore - something to be borne, not enjoyed - and often the social aspect...

I would say that, although historically it may have worked, today it simply won't. Science and education has advanced too far to return to the situation of having neither, and information is too freely available to risk not teaching anything about earth history. The point of getting creationism...

You've had 200 years, Robert. You've lost every time. Can you honestly say that this is because no one will listen to your side of the story? What have you been doing all this time - just standing around or something? You've had every chance to preset your evidence, views, hypotheses, and so...

They're not gonna get it, you know. This is like Poe's Law in reverse.

Honestly? It can't be any more bizarre than the Catholic practice of taking bits of dead people, sticking them in a big gold box, and parading them about the place for the faithful. (Seriously - the thing with relics weirds me out. I mean do they think that they can catch the holy from bits of...

Pagan creationism: isn't that an oxymoron? Anyway. Pagans can pretty much cherry pick their beliefs - it's very much a DIY religion. So pagans do not have to stay tied to one orthodoxy or one religious text - such a thing is contrary to the essential concept of paganism (that everyone chooses...

So much wishful thinking, Robert. But your wishing and hoping won't make it so. Creationists take note: you can talk a good fight, sure, but when push comes to shove in the courts you've lost, every time. Possibly you should think about why this is, without falling into the usual...

OP corrected. Thanks sfs.

I suspect creationists don't quite understand mutations and selection, so I thought I'd break it all down into simple terms. DNA replicates itself. When it replicates, it doesn't always make perfect copies. When it doesn't make a perfect copy, you have a mutation - a difference between the copy...

Been out sick for two days... So. Now I know what you're talking about when you mean 'creation'. Next time just say ID, please. And yes, ID has not been disproven. It's unfalsifiable, i.e. no evidence can disprove it, making it bankrupt as a scientific theory and only interesting from a...

*ahem* I may be ignorant of some things, but I'm not the one making unsupported claims here.

Around 200 years ago, geology really kicked off and the Christian scientists found that the notion of a 6000 year earth and a global flood was false. They could not interpret the evidence to fit the bible. Creationism was shown to be incorrect then. What you mean by 'creation', I'm simply not...

Argument from authority. Theories are right or wrong based on evidence, not on who thinks they are right or wrong. Source for all these claims please. And please note that linking creationist websites is likely to be met with disdain, considering the creationist history of quote-mining and...

Why are we even arguing about this? Let's suppose for a minute that evolution is wrong. Take the theory and toss it out the door. What then? What have you got that so compelling, that explains all the evidence we have and that predicts future discoveries? Evolution may be wrong, but that won't...

Fixed your grammar and spelling again. I'm glad to help, of course. ^_^