"Embedded Age" and Why it's Wrong

[Split Rock]

No, it didn't --- that much detail? Including the eyes? Looks fake to me.

I think it was faked by SATAN.

 

[AV1611VET]

Is it OK to make up stories from whole cloth to defend any belief one holds dear... or just ones from The Bible?

As I say, ad hoc questions deserve ad hoc answers.

 

[Split Rock]

As I say, ad hoc questions deserve ad hoc answers.

What is an ad hoc question??

 

[AV1611VET]

What is an ad hoc question??

That, that precedes an ad hoc answer --- with an interrogation point at the end of it.

 

[gaara4158]

That, that precedes an ad hoc answer --- with an interrogation point at the end of it.

Well, that's not really a fair definition, is it?

 

[Split Rock]

That, that precedes an ad hoc answer --- with an interrogation point at the end of it.

So, you retain the right to call any question that you have prepared an ad hoc answer for, an ad hoc question?

 

[Cabal]

What is an ad hoc question??

"Where did _something_ come from?" is an ad hoc question apparently.

Apart from the fact it's the reason we're all here (on this board, and existence) - including AV.

But it seems like for him implications can take a hike.

 

[AV1611VET]

So, you retain the right to call any question that you have prepared an ad hoc answer for, an ad hoc question?

Did you see my reply to Thaumaturgy, where I gave specific examples of "ad hockery"?

It's okay to accuse me of giving ad hoc answers, but it's not okay for me to "accuse" you guys of asking ad hoc questions?

 

[AV1611VET]

"Where did _something_ come from?" is an ad hoc question apparently.

Apart from the fact it's the reason we're all here (on this board, and existence) - including AV.

But it seems like for him implications can take a hike.

I consider almost any question about God or Christianity that I cannot answer by backing with a Bible verse an ad hoc question.

Fair enough?

I know you guys too well --- you love to ask questions that you think (or know) aren't covered by Scripture.

Like, "Where did the Flood waters go" and stuff like that.

And that's okay --- I like those questions --- and I consider it a challenge to at least have an educated guess.

 

[gaara4158]

Did you see my reply to Thaumaturgy, where I gave specific examples of "ad hockery"?

It's okay to accuse me of giving ad hoc answers, but it's not okay for me to "accuse" you guys of asking ad hoc questions?

"Ad hoc question" is a term you seem to have made up yourself, and by definition it's whatever precedes an ad hoc answer. If that's all it is, there's nothing wrong with an "ad hoc question." You clearly don't understand the term "ad hoc."

 

[Cabal]

I consider almost any question about God or Christianity that I cannot answer by backing with a Bible verse an ad hoc question.

Fair enough?

I know you guys too well --- you love to ask questions that you think (or know) aren't covered by Scripture.

Like, "Where did the Flood waters go" and stuff like that.

And that's okay --- I like those questions --- and I consider it a challenge to at least have an educated guess.

Right, except the Bible doesn't cover absolutely everything, nor is it meant to. That doesn't mean they aren't worthy of consideration.

And like it or not, facts and posited opinions automatically have implications. If your reading of the Bible as the answer-to-everything-book can't answer them, too bad.

 

[Split Rock]

Did you see my reply to Thaumaturgy, where I gave specific examples of "ad hockery"?

It's okay to accuse me of giving ad hoc answers, but it's not okay for me to "accuse" you guys of asking ad hoc questions?

Its just that I have never heard of an ad hoc question before. Is this something you have made up, like extraterrestrial half-angels who mold leaves into coal and bury them back into the earth?

 

[AV1611VET]

Right, except the Bible doesn't cover absolutely everything, nor is it meant to. That doesn't mean they aren't worthy of consideration.

And like it or not, facts and posited opinions automatically have implications. If your reading of the Bible as the answer-to-everything-book can't answer them, too bad.

I totally agree with everything you said here, Cabal.

You're preaching to the choir with this one.

 

[gaara4158]

I guess since I fixed my broken doorhinge with a paperclip, the broken hinge was an ad hoc problem?

 

[AV1611VET]

Is this something you have made up, like extraterrestrial half-angels who mold leaves into coal and bury them back into the earth?

LOL --- retroactive falsification at its finest --- and in less than 24 hours.

 

[MrGoodBytes]

Ya --- a history of eating.

Precisely. Therefore God embedded not only age, but history.

Why wouldn't the rock be millions of years old?

Are you dating the rock from the fish, or the fish from the rock?

The latter.

 

[Nathan Poe]

Did you see my reply to Thaumaturgy, where I gave specific examples of "ad hockery"?

I saw you give wrong examples, but no accurate ones.

It's okay to accuse me of giving ad hoc answers, but it's not okay for me to "accuse" you guys of asking ad hoc questions?

Not as long as you clearly have no idea what it means -- But then again, you've accused Atheists of being nature-worshippers, so knowing what you're talking about has never been your forte.

You make it sound like all your doing is lashing out blindly with "I know you are, but what am I?" Is there more to your "ad hoc" approach than this? Do produce it.

 

[gaara4158]

What happened to the big one? Choked to death? Looks stupid. How does a fish sense the size of food which can be swallowed? Can he spit it out after the wrong move?

Their reflexes are pretty simple. If they see something waving around in their field of vision, they chase after it and if they catch it, they swallow it. That's why fly fishing works. If they see something big coming toward them, they flee. Looks like this one bit off more than he could chew, and he choked to death and was soon encased in mud to be fossilized.

 

[MoonLancer]

should scientists and doctors pursue the question "what causes cancer" even though the answer is not in the bible.

 

[BananaSlug]

As I say, ad hoc questions deserve ad hoc answers.

You say a serious questions about fossils in "embedded age" rock, fossils/dinosaur footprints in coal are "ad hoc" questions?

If these ancient super-beings were so advanced, why would they dig up anthracite, roll it in leaves and use it for fuel when clearly they could have been able to use nuclear fusion? Why would they put it back in the ground?

You actually consider what you said an "educated guess"?

You would rather make up off-the-wall extra-Biblical claims rather than admit your "embedded age" is wrong?

Did these super-beings also make dinosaur footprints in coal? I don't know how if all other coal was made during the flood (as you and other creationists have stated (so far you are the only one that says anthracite was created at creation)). So how could these super-beings create all of this wonderful technology but the flood still kills them all, yet Noah is able to survive a year at sea on a wooden boat?