A website that makes the Answers in Genesis look like a pro-Evolution group.

[Chi_Cygni]

You want to see the worst in Creationist non-thinking and scientific idiocy just take a gander at:

www.theyoungearth.com

It's a doozy.

 

[Bushido216]

Is it worse than YEC Headquarters?

 

[Freedom777]

You want to see the worst in Creationist non-thinking and scientific idiocy just take a gander at:

www.theyoungearth.com

It's a doozy.

Hey Chi_Cygni thanks for the link, very interesting, lot of good info. I did spot a few things that maybe would be better off not there. But theres plenty of sound science, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear, and a mind unclutered with evolutionary biased views. Thanks i enjoyed the site.
God bless, Freedom777(YEC)

 

[L'Anatra]

Hey Chi_Cygni thanks for the link, very interesting, lot of good info. I did spot a few things that maybe would be better off not there. But theres plenty of sound science, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear, and a mind unclutered with evolutionary biased views. Thanks i enjoyed the site.
God bless, Freedom777(YEC)

"There's plenty of sound science..."

Yeah. And I'm the queen of England.

 

[Chi_Cygni]

Hey Chi_Cygni thanks for the link, very interesting, lot of good info. I did spot a few things that maybe would be better off not there. But theres plenty of sound science, if you have eyes to see and ears to hear, and a mind unclutered with evolutionary biased views. Thanks i enjoyed the site.
God bless, Freedom777(YEC)

Please give me one example of sound science on that site. I looked pretty hard and don't recall seeing any.

 

[Freedom777]

Please give me one example of sound science on that site. I looked pretty hard and don't recall seeing any.

One example. Critical thinking skills is a must for science. Some of the assumptions that evolution makes are so far out that they should be discarded.Yet there held on to religiously to keep the evolutionary structure intact. .http://www.theyoungearth.com/ayoungearth/id14.html

Learn how to think, not what to think.
God bless, Freedom777 (YEC)

 

[Chi_Cygni]

I am a scientist and if there is one thing Creationist sites like the above do not offer it is examples of critical thinking.

 

[L'Anatra]

Learn how to think, not what to think.

That may be good advice.

But when you learn how to think through a fundamentalist and literalist interpretation of a 2,000 year old book, your ideas are not gonna jibe well with reality. On top of that, they are dangerous theologically. And they certainly do not involve "critical thinking."

 

[notto]

One example. Critical thinking skills is a must for science. Some of the assumptions that evolution makes are so far out that they should be discarded.Yet there held on to religiously to keep the evolutionary structure intact. .http://www.theyoungearth.com/ayoungearth/id14.html

Learn how to think, not what to think.
God bless, Freedom777 (YEC)

1.) That link addresses geology, not evolution. That the author (and yourself) confuses the two is telling.

2) The author would have us believe that the assumptions he mentions are true of ALL dating methods. This is not the case. The assumptions that are used in some dating methods have been show to be valid assumptions because they can be checked against methods that do NOT use the same assumptions or that use a different set of data.

The correlation between dating methods validates the assumptions in any one of them are correct. The correlation is so constant that we can assume the assumptions are true and valid.

Just because it is an assumption, doesn't mean its wrong. Science makes these types of valid assumptions ALL THE TIME. The author is arguing against valid scientific method and should be laughed at for doing so.

 

[Enigma'07]

How is it that you can be a christian and believe that God is misleading when He says the universe was created in 6 days?

 

[Chi_Cygni]

Because it is falsified.
Because I have never heard God say that.
Because many people argue about the meaning of yom.
Because it is mythology being used as an illustrative tool.
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[Enigma'07]

Let me ask another question. How do you believe in God but not the Bible? Same reasons?

 

[Chi_Cygni]

You are misconstruing my words.

I didn't say I rejected the Bible - I just don't believe it is literal truth. I would have to become an atheist or agnostic if I had to accept it literally because the Bible is known false on many issues of fact.

The vast majority of Christians worldwide know this but especially in the US there is a fervent branch or Protestant fundamentlism that is set on dragging us back to Medieval belief and superstition.

 

[Ron21647]

a lot of people around here have been quoting this site verbatim. It may be wrong, but at least it is easy to understand.

the problem with sending people to a REAL science site is they have to read it, they have to understand it, and then they have to think about it. I don't think most of the people who take this "young earth" site as truth can think critically.

added on edit: if these people can continually accuse me of not being a Christian, then I can call them stupid for not understanding science, right?

Ron

 

[Dracil]

if these people can continually accuse me of not being a Christian

Well.... a more valid tactic would probably to just report them every time they do it. They'll probably eventually learn. And if not, they won't be around either for it to matter. It IS breaking Rule No. 1 of the forums.

 

[Karl - Liberal Backslider]

Trust me - they never learn, no matter how often you report them. They can't help it.

 

[Dracil]

Well, the idea is, if they don't learn, they'll get banned. Problem solved either way.

 

[Karl - Liberal Backslider]

Some do. It took months to get rid of Ark Guy though.

 

[Dracil]

Well, mhess13 certainly seems to have a flair for repeatedly breaking Rule No. 1. Check out this.

 

[Karl - Liberal Backslider]

Well, mhess13 certainly seems to have a flair for repeatedly breaking Rule No. 1. Check out this.

Boughtwithaprice has got there. Kudos.