I have never said that Genesis is a fable and I'm getting tired of hearing this accusation. I have said that creationists don't understand what Genesis means. Creationists have clearly inserted later thinking into their version of Genesis, like the idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old.
A couple of years ago I did a thread with a very modest objective, to show that the earth must be at least ten thousand years old. We can determine that from tree rings alone. I know that creationists don't understand radioactive decay, so I confined myself to tree rings in that thread. Creationists were ready to argue with me but not one looked at the evidence I presented. Not one had anything to say about tree rings. Creationists aren't interested in evidence.
Here is the OP from that thread:
Many creationists insist that the earth should be no more than 6,000 years old. Apparently the idea is that the Second Coming is imminent, and after that there will be the 1,000 Millenial reign, and then the Final Judgment. The world, from creation to Second Coming to Final Judgment will come out to 7,000 years. By this reasoning, the world began around 4,000 BC (Bishop Ussher?) and Noah's Deluge was about 3,000 BC.
And you are wrong about Creationists inserting a young age. The Jews have a calendar they created in teh OT. This is the year 5780 from Creation! So young earth was believed by Jews and the early church! It is only after the corruption of the church starting in the fourth century did old ages start to creep in.
And as for dendochronolgy? It has been empirically proven that trees have grown multiple rings in years and also whe climate turns.
No most creationists take their belief the earth is approximately 6000 years old based on the genealogies found in teh Bible.
We can trace lines directly back to Noah approx 4400 years ago and trace them genetically!
We have a geneaology of Jesus that goes back to Adam! The only time frame that is not known is how much time elapsed from Adam being formed and the fall.
ALL and I repeat ALL dating methods are loaded with problems and untestable assumptions. Even ice core dating, dendochronolgy and other supposed hard fact dating.
I am more impressed by scientific method than by degrees or PhD's. One thing I've noticed is that some famous Christians have degrees but they come from schools that are not accredited. I am doing a thread on Rev. Chuck Baldwin, an Independent Baptist minister,
Well tehn you should look up all the YEC scientists who are members of the Creation Research society! these are all masters and doctors in accredited schools, have had many published articles , chair science depts. in secular colleges and award winners in their fields as well as discoverers and inventors! There are over 15,000 of them!
I know not who Baldwin is or what His field of study is in. But hundreds of Bible colleges in America are not secularly credited simply because they do not offer the courses set up by the secular boards for awarding degrees in fields. They are institutes for training pastors and missionaries and church leaders. They are accredited by Christian institutions to grant recognized degrees in theological fields. But yes there are men in both secular and Christian fields who got their degrees from diploma mills.
I am more impressed by scientific method than by degrees or PhD's.
As am I! I became a YEC from being a staunch evolutionist simply because I attacked both models of origins with the scientific method in the forefront!
I have seen some of the claims that came out of Bryan College, named after William Jennings Bryan. At Bryan College, they claim to be studying "Baraminology," the study of Biblical kinds. It's a complete farce.
Really? Because they study creatures using a biblical term instead of a term made up by secularists?
kingdom, order, phyla, family genus species clades are all made up words to define groups mistly by morphology (another made up word)
And one of the base theories of baraminology is that each "kind" reproduces after itself. And guess what ? we have never seen a dog kind ever change into something that is not a dog kind! We have proven that dogs have the capability for variation within their "kind" but as far as the scientific method can actually confirm- a dog has always been a dog! Just different kinds of dog!
Another scientific method they use is that mutations always corrupt and never advance a genome in a creture population. And we have no emprical observable testable observation that mutations have ever added new and previously unrecorded information in the genome.
Those two proven tested facts in teh study of "baraminology" should be enough to topple th emyth of evolution by random undesigned, unplanned undesigned mutations.
Science is in constant collision with the notion of a 6,000 year old earth.
See you have acccpeted the myth that evolution is a fact! it is not science that collides with creation approx 6,000 years ago, but a secular atheistic worldview held by scientists that collides.