Young Earth Creationism Vs. Science (Statler Waldorf Contd)

[orogenicman]

Premise 1: Everything that has a beginning has a cause.
Premise 2: The universe has a beginning.

Conclusion: The universe has a cause.

Premise 1: Everything that has a beginning has a cause.
Premise 2: God is eternal, he has no beginning.

Conclusion: God has no cause.

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The Bible is not historically accurate?

No more so than a James Pattern novel can be considered to be historically accurate.

Then why did I just see a program on National Geographic where they were using scripture to find the cities of Sodom and Gomorra? They found the two cities exactly where Scripture said they were and they also found evidence of catastrophe in both cities. The Bible is used in Archeology more than any other holy book.

Just because the Bible references historical places and landmarks doesn't mean that all of the Bible is true. Catholics and Jews understand that the Bible is not always to be interpreted literally, and since they wrote the books contained in it, I'll go with that. The Bible says that slavery and bigomy is acceptable. Do you believe that is true?

Well yes certain dating methods are meant for different materials, like radio-carbon dating is meant for organic matter and radio-metric dating is used for igneous rocks. However, when we use just different radio-metric methods on the same igneous rock you get vastly different ages. Sometimes these ages vary by a billion years! What kind of accuracy is that? When we use these methods to date igneous rocks of known ages we get ages that are sometimes thousands of times in error. We never get the correct age. So why would we assume that a method that never gives the correct age on material that has known ages would give the correct age on material that has unknown ages? Sounds like blind-faith to me.

Well, not one word of that nonsense is true.

All structures that exist today post-date the global flood. The methods used to date these prior to the flood are shaky at best and use false assumptions.

The Earth is full of evidence for a global flood and I would encourage you to read some of the literature on the subject.

I find it rather convenient that you make such extraordinary claims and yet refuse to meet me for an afternoon of real field geology so you can be shown that such claims are nothing but lies. If you are so certain of your facts, what are you afraid of?