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Yes, and one that is personally important to me. I have to deal every day with the fact that 70% of students matriculating into college (who I must teach) hate math so bad, they cannot do seventh grade algebra.Opinion.
I agree. We just disagree on which ones are the wrong ones. History shows people do not act on the right ideas, but on the ideas they believe.Not all ideas are equal. It is just a fact of life that some people are wrong. Those wrong ideas don't become good ideas simply by believing in them harder.
And I think that when it comes to long ago and far away, scientists are in that category.With some, reality takes a back seat to what they psychologicaly need to see. To them, well evidenced reality is to painful to acknowledge. So, they manufacture their own reality.
The people who are doing the talking.Not anyone who knows anything about science--and who else would you listen to on the subject?
I agree. My problem is not with science's ability to make today better. My problem is with the assumption that they can use these ideas to analyze the past.well, scientic theories work. Every hour of evsry day, you enjoy the benefits of the many scientific theories that deliver.
With some, reality takes a back seat to what they psychologicaly need to see. To them, well evidenced reality is to painful to acknowledge. So, they manufacture their own reality.
I am not a YEC. I am an "I don't know". i do not know of any positive falsification.Scientific theories are provisional until falsified. They are not facts. I think the "fact" that bothers Creationists is the fact that YECism has already been falsified.
I agree. My problem is not with science's ability to make today better. My problem is with the assumption that they can use these ideas to analyze the past.
I also posted the referred journal backing it.More opinion.
Unless they have been changed by some external force in the meantime.
Like the famous The London Hammer: An Alleged Out of Place Artifact It's lucky we have a way to prove that this is not what it originally seemed to be.
I have previously stated I do not know how old the earth is. If I had such evidence, I would know.
I'm not an expert, but doesn't make you an agnostic?It's irrelevant how common any belief is, as that doesn't contribute to credibility. Also, atheism is, by definition, a lack of belief in deities. If I were exposed to sufficient evidence, I'd believe in them, I just haven't been exposed to such evidence, so I don't. So, until further notice, I consider deities a concept, yes, but few atheists would astutely claim that they absolutely don't exist.
Then magic is just as viable an explanation as your 4th dimensional light is. Actually, it's more viable, because I can't demonstrate that magic would tear the universe apart like increasing the speed of light to the point that it transcends the 3rd dimension would.
That is exactly the point at issue. You were not there, you cannot be sure except by inference.
What God created on the first day is bigger than three dimensions, and does not need sun or moon to exist. The light we see coming from the sun is thus something less than that.
If science could not effectively analyze the past, then forensics would pretty much be destroyed. It'd be like saying that finding an individual's sperm in a rape victim didn't make them a suspect. It's like saying the fact that I recently turned 22 isn't evidence that I was born in 1995.I agree. My problem is not with science's ability to make today better. My problem is with the assumption that they can use these ideas to analyze the past.
I'm not an expert, but doesn't make you an agnostic?
Agnostic atheist. Agnosticism is actually a statement of knowledge, not belief.I'm not an expert, but doesn't make you an agnostic?
Wasn't it someone like Karl Sagan maybe who once said that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable form magic? Have you ever read "Real Magick" by PEI Bonewits? He puts scientific research proving magic is a real force. Real Magic: An Introductory Treatise on the Basic Principles of Yellow Magic
Of course not. Read it again. The character in the movie had a fingerprint that was made for him by the technicians who make props for the movie. That finger print did not come from a finger.You believe everything that comes out of hollywood?
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