Young-Earth-Creationism - can you prove it's not true?
November 1, 2010 at 3:51 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2010 at 3:52 pm by cookies4life.)
Evening,
I'm going to a school founded by the Seventh Day Adventists. I personally do not believe in god, since I don't think I want to believe into something that I can't prove (neither empirically, nor logically). Many people at this school and some of my friends that are Adventists do so. One theory the Adventists have is the Young-Earth-Creationism. By counting all those numbers of ages that people in the bible have (you know this stuff: Methusalem became 900 years, Isaac became 800 years, etc.) they believe that the creation has to be taken word for word and therefore say the earth has to have an age about 6000 to 10000 years.
This theory is sort of interesting, because on the one hand it seems to be completely retarded, on the other hand I don't seem to be able to prove the opposite. The c14-Method, with which you can date the age of minerals and other radioactive methods that date the age of our earth to several billion years, are inaccurate or wrong, they say. Though, since most scientists these days don't take this theory for serious anymore, because it was thrown away in the 20th century, I can't believe this could actually be true.
Now I would really be interested if you guys could sort of prove me or at least give good evidence that the earth is for sure older than 6000 years
mfg
I'm going to a school founded by the Seventh Day Adventists. I personally do not believe in god, since I don't think I want to believe into something that I can't prove (neither empirically, nor logically). Many people at this school and some of my friends that are Adventists do so. One theory the Adventists have is the Young-Earth-Creationism. By counting all those numbers of ages that people in the bible have (you know this stuff: Methusalem became 900 years, Isaac became 800 years, etc.) they believe that the creation has to be taken word for word and therefore say the earth has to have an age about 6000 to 10000 years.
This theory is sort of interesting, because on the one hand it seems to be completely retarded, on the other hand I don't seem to be able to prove the opposite. The c14-Method, with which you can date the age of minerals and other radioactive methods that date the age of our earth to several billion years, are inaccurate or wrong, they say. Though, since most scientists these days don't take this theory for serious anymore, because it was thrown away in the 20th century, I can't believe this could actually be true.
Now I would really be interested if you guys could sort of prove me or at least give good evidence that the earth is for sure older than 6000 years
mfg
