(July 3, 2010 at 8:01 am)Zen Badger Wrote: @ Theo.....
I will assume that you believe that the universe is only 6000 years old.
Since all of the evidence collected by science shows the it is much, much older, how do you explain the apparent discrepancy.
And in the absence of evidence to the contrary the only assumption you can make is that universal constants( lightspeed etc) are constant.
Actually, Hume's problem of inference would seem to suggest that we can't infer the uniformity of nature. Every law we now have in place might suddenly cease to exist tomorrow. There's no necessary reason for thinking that, just because the universe has remained the same thus far, it will do so in the future.
Having said this, the OP is still talking a pile of bull plop. Presumably creationists all count on the fact that the air pressure on Earth won't suddenly increase, causing their heads to explode and ooze the few drops of cerebral matter therein onto the floor. Therefore, we're all probably equally justified in thinking that the laws of nature will and have always remained the same.
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'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
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'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
