As many of us here know, Barna research* has shown that the denial of scientific data about reality is one of main reasons ex-Christians give for why they left Christianity. A major (perhaps biggest) source of this reality denial in churches is creationism.
Having witnessed a former high school classmate had left catholicism and Jesus Christ altogether because of the evolution theory, I would say the problem is not being rooted in the word. I'm not Catholic, but just citing how the evolution theory can make unbelievers out of believers.
This so called scientific data is overlooking one important factor when using scientific method in dating the age of anything; and that is they are assuming that there was no global catastrophe that had occurred in world history over 50,000 years.
That is the downfall of science today when they refuse to acknowledge that if the global flood actually did happen as the Bible says it did, then they cannot rely on their scientific devises in determining the age of anything past recorded human history.
There are evidence of errors in determining the age of anything within recorded human history as proven by recorded human history & even in present day like living mollusks as carbon dated as 2,300 years old "dead".
So science are shooting in the dark even after acknowledging that the basis for their determining how old anything is on an assumption that there was no global flood within the last 50,000 years. When they do acknowledge that, then they would realize that they can't use their dating methods that goes beyond what recorded human history can confirm.
Here's a tid-bit for common sense;
Marine life will not absorb as much carbon 14 as life on land does; therefore dating them together would give a false report; like that living mollusks being dated as 2,300 years old "dead" when they can see with their own eyeballs that it is still very much alive.
So when they dated fossilized whale bones with other fossilized marine life on top of the Andes mountains, and strangely enough, they found buried with them, fossilized land animal bones, they assumed they were buried on top of the mountains at different times. Yeah.. right. If they want to stick to their evolution theory, they would have to assume that.
That is clear evidence of the global flood. Animals that die on land would have to be buried by sediment to be fossilized. That is not going to happen on mountaintops all over the world where mass graves of marine life and animal life have been found together fossilized unless there was a global flood in progress and the receding waters left sediments to bury them both together on mountaintops at the same time.
Science is about what is observed and can be proven and it is unfortunate that the evolution theory is seen as fact when macro-evolution is beyond being observed and thus cannot be proven.
And micro evolution is not proof of macro evolution. Micro evolution by definition, will always have changes at the species level for reproduction to continue its species, thus micro evolution will always be micro evolution as the law of biogenesis dictates that a cow will always be a cow; and not slowly evolving to a whale, thus missing not only so many transitional fossils, but all the so called transitional species that led up to it.
This is why believers re to be grounded in the King James Bible for the meat of His words as well as relying on Jesus as their Good Shepherd to show how some oppositions of science are so falsely called "science".
1 Timothy 6:20O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of
science falsely so called:
