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Have you ever noticed that the people who think evolution is false
never actually know anything about it?
 
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They would already know before they even
entered the solar system.
They'd laugh themselves to death as soon as they approached our solar system.

In 1974, scientists sent a message into space, called the Aricebo Message, that shows Earth as third planet from the sun, in a solar system containing nine planets.
 
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Have you ever noticed that the people who think evolution is false never actually know anything about it?
And the ones that do know anything about it are the ones that are able to overlook missing links and keep up with all the constant changes?
 
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Hmmm -- let's see:
  1. can't communicate with humans
  2. can't read the Bible
  3. can't read Preservation of Favoured Races
  4. see us differently
  5. very good at measuring things
Where did all of those limitations come from?
And you would welcome them as "overlords"?
Is there any good reason not to do so?
 
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Where did all of those limitations come from?
Is there any good reason not to do so?
I can think of three good ones.

Would you vote for a president who:
  1. can't communicate with humans
  2. can't read the Bible
  3. see us differently
The Twilight Zone did an episode on people who came here from another planet and were made overlords based on their technological expertise and friendliness.

You've probably seen it.

It's called: To Serve Man
 
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You seem to be under the impression that I:
1. Am American
2. Am >70 years old
3. Am intellectually challenged

None of the above is correct, therefore all your "three good ones" and additional assertions are woefully inaccurate and irrelevant.
 
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The book Origins of Species, makes no claims about the age of the earth, so it would not be very useful to them anyways.
I'm sure they would be able to measure the ratio of lead to uranium in a few rock samples. They would determine the Earth to be at least 3.5 billion years old. That being the age of the oldest exposed large scale formations.
 
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Have you ever noticed that the people who think evolution is false
never actually know anything about it?
I have indeed noticed this.
And they also refuse to learn anything about it... preferring to make up convoluted fantasy stories about it.
 
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I have indeed noticed this.
And they also refuse to learn anything about it... preferring to make up convoluted fantasy stories about it.

Generally let someone else make things up for them.
 
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Who is to say that they don't have superstitious beliefs?
 
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Not me.

The new ones who showed up here sure are not welcome.

They'll have travelled across interstellar space. They'd be so far ahead of us technologically it would seem like we were living in the stone age. I hope they'd be mildly interested in us and not decide we were in the way of a hyperspace expressway (a la Vogans in Hitchhikers Guide to The Universe).
 
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That's kind of how it feels here except they are not more advanced
 
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That's kind of how it feels here except they are not more advanced.
Indeed they wouldn't be more advanced.

Unless, of course, it was God's will.

Adam threw the entire universe into sin, and since Earth was the first planet in existence, then we have a head-start on anyone else technologically.

The only exception I can see is if God hid Easter eggs [Pat.Pend] on their planet and, at the right time, raised up scientists to find them.

Easter eggs so far advanced from ours, that it allowed them to traverse interstellar space.

But I doubt it.
 
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If the different techniques of radio dating are based on flawed assumptions, why is it that different techniques agree with each other when they are each based off different wrong assumptions? Why would the incorrect assumptions of one technique be wrong by just the right amount to match up with the results given by a different method with completely different incorrect assumptions?
 
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Why would there be no aliens if there was no evolution? Are you suggesting that God would be incapable of life on another planet?

And does that mean that if scientists discover life on another planet (even if it was simple life similar to bacteria or something similar), you'd give up your faith?

(I'd suggest that at any rate, such a discovery would force you to consider that some of your beliefs are wrong, even if you don't give up your faith in God.)
 
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