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Dude, let's not turn this one into a farce.

Please please please, tell me you're joking?


Where would God get seeds? Well, maybe He created them?? Where? Well, I don't know, but they ended up, obviously on earth. He did HOVER above for a while. Maybe He created the seeds there? Who cares?? I think it is easier than digging millions of 60 foot wide,. and twenty foot deep trenches - to poof full grown trees into! And you insult our sense??


You are 8, you really are only 8 years old.
 
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I would adjust my figures accordingly. I went through it myself though, and came up with something like 6047 years or thereabout --- so 6100 is actually a ballpark figure.

Fair enough. What if it could be shown that it was considerably older the Bishop Ussher figures, say 12,000 years old at least? I'm not sure we'll be able to convince you, because I suspect you'd tell the evidence to take a hike, but in a hypothetical situation, I'd be interested in your thoughts on where you'd go from here if you did accept the literal figure was incorrect.
 
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What if it could be shown that it was considerably older the Bishop Ussher figures, say 12,000 years old at least?
I would assume I made a mathematical error and adjust accordingly.
 
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Please please please, tell me you're joking?

Consol, even though the notion of YEC may seem farcical to yourself, there have been plenty of times when Christians/agnostics have publicly announced on this board that they've decided to effect a major change in their personal philosophies (often towards agnosticism/atheism). That takes guts, and from what I can tell, so far people have been able to do that freely without all the Christians in an 80-thread radius jumping on them. This time, the situation is reversed, so let's just save the debate for the debate threads, mmmkay?
 
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Dude, come on, this isn't a debate thread. There are plenty of people on both sides of this debate who have announced a change in their philosophies over the months, let's not turn this one into a farce.
Please, it started as a farce. The difference between YEC and AV's embedded age nonsense is nil. It's one stupid idea vs. another stupid idea. So a carny (for you non-American folks, that's a traveling worker at a carnival) decides he likes the roller coaster better than the merry-go-round. Big whoop! He's still a carny.

Young Earth Creationism is ignorant. There's no evidence to support it other than the Bible. A book, written hundreds if not thousands of years ago by bronze-age men who didn't understand anything about their world. So they made up stories. Now, when we do actually understand much of our world here you folks are still clinging desperately to those ancient, ignorant stories.

This thread was a farce from the first word typed. It's a farce now and it'll be a farce as long as you cling to these ridiculous beliefs based upon nothing.
 
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Consol, even though the notion of YEC may seem farcical to yourself, there have been plenty of times when Christians/agnostics have publicly announced on this board that they've decided to effect a major change in their personal philosophies (often towards agnosticism/atheism). That takes guts, and from what I can tell, so far people have been able to do that freely without all the Christians in an 80-thread radius jumping on them. This time, the situation is reversed, so let's just save the debate for the debate threads, mmmkay?
Oh yah... guts. It takes guts to go to Iraq. To change from one ignorant and ridiculous belief to another ignorant and ridiculous belief?

"I like red gumballs."

"I like blue gumballs"

That doesn't take any guts at all.
 
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Oh yah... guts. It takes guts to go to Iraq. To change from one ignorant and ridiculous belief to another ignorant and ridiculous belief?

"I like red gumballs."

"I like blue gumballs"

That doesn't take any guts at all.
I don't know, do you think AV thinks his beliefs are ridiculous?

Whether they actually are is irrelevant. If one thinks they are good serious beliefs then it does take guts to change them.

I assume you are an adult human, and as such you possess a theory of mind. Use it.
 
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Okay --- I've assumed the role of YEC for a day, and to tell you the truth --- I'm not comfortable with it at all.

My sincerest apologies to my YEC brothers and sisters here. I certainly didn't mean to slander your beliefs in any way. I'm just a poor apologetic for this particular interpretation.

I've said it before, and I think it bears (bares?) repeating --- I'm not qualified to defend this position.

Changing call sign back to Embedded Age.
 
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