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When the founding fathers realized the earth was old
I should ask, who are you talking about when you say "founding fathers". Are you talking about those of American nation? Abraham and his successive line until the nation of Israel was formed? The apostles, Christ, who?
Sorry if I don't believe what you say. I believe you over exaggerate your percentage. Which is why I came to you in the first place to say "lets be honest with ourselves here.".Now 99% of us accept an old earth, 300 years later.
If anything has changed year to year, it's been a growing number of geologists in support of an old earth. Young earth views have been in the backseat for generations now. And rightfully so.
I call it, "A lack of belief in what the word of God has laid out for us.". I find scripture quite accurate when I read things like 2 Timothy 4:3-4.
You will either believe what scripture says, or you won't. Your choice really. And Genesis's use of context/sentence structure, the words that are chosen, support young earth.
I'd rather believe what the bible says, not you, or even some scientist who likes to claim scripture as a lie or twist its words around.
Also, the founding fathers never knew anything about carbon dating, and even in today's time, carbon dating isn't used in understanding the age of the earth.
Actually, they do use it to determine the earths age. They use it by saying that "this bone we found is X years old, and therefore we can determine that the earth is at least Y amount of years"
I don't know where you came from, but they ALWAYS used carbon dating to determine the earths age. Schools continue to teach this as absolute. Unfortunately, it was found quite unreliable. Yet they still teach it as absolute.
As far as these "founding fathers" you speak of, many people love to try and prove scripture false or twist its words up. I don't see them stopping now. Thus, geologists still debate today, since it is not fact, in fact, quite the opposite when you take scripture into consideration.
Yes, I agree.Lastly, plate tectonics is a theory too
So when I told you in the last post "there were things in the 90's we thought was so, but now (2019) know it isnt so", you agree with that statement. I agree too. There are some things we use to know as true, but later find out are not (or vise versa).
However, it doesn't contradict scripture. Old (billions of years) earth believers, contradict scripture. I just can't do that regardless if you came to me all by my lonesome with X amount of people. I love God way too much to be twisting up His words and tossing them out the window.
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