(January 16, 2015 at 2:12 am)Drich Wrote:I don't need the earth to be any age. That's the difference between you and me. I form my opinions based on testable, repeatable evidence. You form yours based on what your worldview requires.(January 15, 2015 at 11:59 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: How old is the earth again, Drich?
As old as you or 'science' needs it to be.
(January 16, 2015 at 2:12 am)Drich Wrote: Makes no difference to me, or God.It sure makes a difference if you count the begats.
(January 16, 2015 at 2:12 am)Drich Wrote:(January 16, 2015 at 12:01 am)Esquilax Wrote: Just remember, if he can show we don't know, then the answer must be god!
Actually if 'he' can show you don't know, yet you believe science hold the answer, then "he" can demonstrate that you are a man of faith.
If your are indeed a man of faith, then I ask why not God?
Are you really that flippant? Really?
For the millionth time, there is a difference between religious faith and faith in testable, repeatable processes. I have faith that when I sit my dining room chair, it won't collapse. I have this faith because of the 1,000 other times I have sat in this chair and not had it collapse. I acknowledge that it could collapse (so not blind faith.) I have faith that the scientific method works, because over and over it produces results. Do you ever feel even the slightest bit dishonest when you distrust science only when it contradicts your worldview? Don't worry, I know the answer already.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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