RE: The universe appears "old", but it is still less than 10,000 years old
October 31, 2013 at 7:19 pm
(October 31, 2013 at 12:13 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote:(October 30, 2013 at 1:09 pm)orogenicman Wrote: He is going to have to explain what he means by "now" because I've had that very argument with them in the past two years. Now, unless there was some sort of creationist symposium this year in which all the players agree that their claim was bogus, then I think it is safe to assume that he is lying.
Well, his claim to me was that the changing speed of light is an argument which was proposed by creationists but no longer used. I guess the memo didn't get out to all creationists. True, Answers in Genesis does have the speed of light change in their list of arguments that creationists shouldn't use, but they still use it along with all the other ridiculous arguments on that list.
That's true. I've seen no cease and desist order by the creationist powers-that-be to refrain from any of these nonsensical arguments. What I've seen in the past five years is that they continue unabashed their attacks against science and those who practice it.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
