(May 5, 2014 at 6:51 am)Esquilax Wrote: I need to ask, Rev: did you even pause when you saw that the source you were quoting from was fifty years old? Did it occur to you at all that fields like science and technology tend to advance in half a century? Did you even consider the prospect that science works on a consensus basis, that this is the foundation of the peer review process that keeps science honest, and so therefore one person's opinion- phd or not- means as much as any one theologian's opinion?
Or did you just find something that went with the flow of what you wanted to believe? I guess that's the most important question; how much time and thought passed between when you initially found that quote, and when you posted it here?
The problem with this argument that existed 50 years ago still is present today. That should tell you something. To me it screams.