Obviously, when you dismiss the fact you have no facts that prove a required same state past, it is truly ridiculous, as well as against the biblical account. You need a lot more than that. I dismiss nothing, ever. I do not dismiss decay, or light speed, or anything. Me and science are buds.
Sorry, stopped reading after that.
I just figured dad out. I'll explain in a moment.
Sorry you don't like godless thought to be undermined. I suggest you get over it. It ain't going away.
Actually, it is. That's the best part.
Atheism and agnosticism are on the rise... have been for a while now, and will continue to grow as more people realize it's not some terrible social taboo to be atheist.
People like you are becoming fewer and fewer in number. If that's not evidence of ongoing evolution, I'm not sure what is.
What you fail to admit and see is that the only evidence that a "real" scientists can allow is fishbowl, present state evidence, and that only applies to the future or far past by assumption. Really.
So, as I said earlier in this post, I finally figured dad out.
Dad, here's what it comes down to.
-Science has shown certain basic laws to be consistent and constant (i.e. the speed of light in a vacuum).
-In some cases, science has shown some things
not to be constant, but still consistent (i.e. predictable in their variations). Good tests (and the resulting theories) account for this, otherwise they would quickly be disproven.
-To confirm this uniformity (or in some cases, lack thereof), scientists constantly run experiments and attempt to make predictions about the results. If the predictions are consistently confirmed, then the basis for making those predictions can be considered sound. If the predictions don't match the results, we have to go back to the drawing board and see where we went wrong.
It's all a process.
-What YOU are trying to do is just to say (essentially) that since we weren't there to witness it, we can't know what happened. However scientists
regularly make predictions and run experiments on things we cannot see, or could not have seen. Just because we didn't see the tree fall in the forest, it doesn't mean we can't run experiments and tests to determine why it fell.
-Instead, you throw out this idea that the physical laws of the universe were different at some point in the past. Unfortunately, there's absolutely no solid evidence to support your own position... and the only reason you have invented it is to discredit scientific explanations that contradict your personal translation of a religious text.
What you don't seem to understand, dad, is that we would all LOVE to see you prove your position. It would have amazing effects on the scientific community. Unfortunately for you, there simply is no solid evidence to support your position.