dayton said:
I am new here and I am looking for somke scientific support for young-earth creationism. I have Biblical support for it, but no scientific evidence. I am not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination (politics is more my thing) so please don't get into all the the technical, scientific words.
Dayton, science falsifies. That is, it shows ideas to be wrong. See the quote from Karl Popper at the end of the post. One thing Popper noted was that you can ALWAYS find evidence in support of a theory, if that is what you are looking for. Therefore, what really counts is the evidence that falsifies a theory.
YEC was THE accepted scientific theory in the period ~1700-1831. It was shown to be false. The evidence that falsified it then is still around. All the supporting evidence in the world won't help YEC because of the evidence that has already shown it to be false.
See The Biblical Flood by Davis A. Young ( an evangelical Christian and a geologist) and Genesis and Geology by Gillespie. They will take you thru the falsification of YEC.
"1. It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory -- if we look for confirmations.
2. Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions.
3. Every 'good' scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.
4. Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.
5. Confirming evidence should not count *except when it is the result of a genuine test of the theory:* and this means that it can be presented as a serious but unsuccessful attempt to falsify the theory. [emphasis Popper's]
"I thought that scientific theories were not the digest of observations, but that they were inventions -- conjectures boldly put forward for trial, to be eliminated if they clashed with observations, with observations which were rarely accidental but as a rule undertaken with the definite intention of testing a theory by obtaining, if possible, a decisive refutation."