(November 24, 2014 at 2:48 am)Creatard Wrote: If you can't answer just don't take part in it. I just want to know the arguments against my position.Your position sounds like a classic argument from ignorance, or the 'gaps' fallacy. You appear to be saying that although what has been discovered and tested points to an old-earth, there are things that we cannot verify that could prove a young earth. If this is what you are saying, then you need to provide the explanation and results to show that your objection merits anything more than dismissal.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould