RE: The universe appears "old", but it is still less than 10,000 years old
December 30, 2013 at 8:35 pm
(December 28, 2013 at 12:23 am)orogenicman Wrote: If by "embarrassing amount of difficulty understanding basic concepts" you mean that I don't understand how anyone can pretend to get a 10,000 year old universe from unambiguous evidence of a 13.7 billion year old universe, then your [sic] are right. I do have difficultly [sic] accepting such a delusion. The only thing I find embarrassing is the fact that there are still people in the world who believe in 10,000 year old universes, expanding Earths, hollow Earths, and flat Earths.
Nope, what I was referring to was your ignorance of special relativity’s conventionality thesis.
Quote: Nope. This is what people always say when encountering someone as willfully ignorant as you.
I do not blame you for playing the personal attack card, it’s obviously the only one you have in your deck.
Quote: Well, you see. unlike you, I don't have to refer to "Freundel of Contemporary Orthodox Judaism's response to modernity" since, having been married to a Jew, I know first hand that most modern Jews are not orthodox.
That’s a fallacious appeal to authority. I am sorry-but unlike Freundel-your wife is not an appropriate authority to speak upon the beliefs of all modern Jews. I appeal to the experts on the matter, you appeal to your wife’s opinion. That’s funny.
Quote: Orthodox Jews are a minority sect within the Jewish faith just as fundamental Christians like you are a minority in the Christian faith.
That’s irrelevant, you claimed that only evangelical Christians believe in a young Earth (ironically enough you made this claim to someone who is not an evangelical Christian and who believes in a young Earth) and Orthodox Jews are not evangelical Christians. Secondly, I am not a fundamentalist Christian I am a Reformed Christian-there’s a difference. If you are going to toss these terms around I’d prefer that you at least learned what they meant first.
Quote: For instance, according to a 1990 nationwide survey, 7 percent of American Jews are Orthodox. And like you and your fundy brothers and sister, they got Genesis wrong as well.
http://www.religionfacts.com/judaism/denominations.htm
Wait, I thought that only evangelical Christians believed in a young Earth? It’s funny when you refute yourself like this.
