(July 8, 2012 at 3:42 am)CliveStaples Wrote:(July 8, 2012 at 3:37 am)FallentoReason Wrote: There are 39 other tests apart from the carbon isotope dating test that will show you the earth is 4.5 billion years old.
There's more than enough evidence.
Erm, you still haven't answered the question. How do you know that this "evidence" doesn't depend on the assumption that the universe wasn't created 5 minutes ago with the appearance of age?
You basically just said, "No, you're wrong," without giving any evidence or reason for me to think that you're right. Other than your say-so, which you apparently believe is sufficient to convince people. Don't you have anything more substantive?
Clive,
Hello, I'm Cato. With the evidence I have I can claim that I posted to this forum before you joined; therefore, I submit that my historic postings relative to you are real and did not poof into existence with the appearance of age at the time you chose to grace me/us with your presence at AF.
To put it another way...
If you are sincere with your 'appearance of age' shit, you must adhere to the idea that your mother and grandmother were non-existents before your birth and only came into existence at the moment of your birth with the appearance of age.
At this point you can argue that nothing existed five minutes ago and we were all created (with common memory of what we call history) five minutes ago. Which is more likely? There was existence and history before us or we were all just created with appearance of age parading around as history?
