How old is the Earth?

[Anomalocaris]

Oh brother. Football Team A claims to be the best football team in the League. Only one problem, they refuse to play anyone. Football Team B claims to also be the best football team in the league and will play anyone, no matter where. They will even pay all the costs for the game and will even play the game at the Football Team A's Stadium. Football Team A still refuses and just says, "Football Team B is just not good enough to play us, we are not scared." Which football team is most likely the better team? Team B of course. Well that was almost too easy.

A man avoids the prostitutes because he disapprove of prostitution, or because fears for his reputation should he be seen hanging out with prostitutes; not because he fears the prostitutes. This is why most biologists don't like to have "debated creationists" on their resumes.

Prostitutes may think this avoidance makes them superior human beings if they are so dilusionally inclined, but their salient feature remains that they are prostitutes, only now with less impressive clientale.

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Actually the Astrophysicist I cited DOES have articles in Peer-reviewed journals.

DO those peer reviewed articles discuss instantenous travel of light towards you, but finite speed of light going away from you? Have his peers thought well enough of his articles to CITE them as basis of real work? Perhaps he also illuminated why radio transmissions from the moon can be clocked to take 1.3 seconds to reach the earth, and radio transmission from mars can be clocked to take 20 or so minutes to reach us from Mars?

Maybe if you school yourself in rudimentary history of science, you might discover the finite speed of light was first determined with reasonable accuracy precisely by measuring the different length of time taken by light traveling directly to us from slightly different distances as moons of Jupiter orbit their parent planets?

Incidentally, from which schools and for what did did your "students" go on to receive scholarships?

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1. If you don't take the book of Genesis literally then why take any of the rest of the Bible literally? Maybe Jesus didn't actually rise from the dead. Maybe he was not actually born of a Virgin? If you start compromising on all of these cornerstones of the Faith then you start believing in something that is not Christianity at all.

2. Why compromise on it to begin with? It will not help anyone come to the Faith. "Well I just can't except a Young Earth because Science does not back it, but I will accept Virgins giving birth." You see my point?

3. Jesus seemed to take the Genesis account literally, so if the Son of God did, then so too must His followers.

4. People will believe when God wants them to believe. So it is my job to present and support what scripture says, not water it down to make it more appealing. One Creationist said it very well, "It's God's job to open their hearts, it's our job to shut their mouths." :-)

1. Because you shouldn't take genisis literally, you shoudln't therefore take a single word of the bible seriously. Jesus certainly didn't rise from the dead. If he was ever born at all, then he was most certainly born of a woman who has been well penetrated by mortal man (men?). Although it is possible she did not wish this to be known to her son, and knew him to be enough of a turnip to buy her virgin alibi, it is more likely the son was either a down right fraud or was totally deranged and conceived of his false parentage pretenses out of pathological dilusions of grandeur. Because Christianity relies on cornerstone such as this, it is quite a exceptional pack of trash.

2. You compromised on it to begin with because you started believing all of it, and needs to end up rejecting every last bit of it, and you are not smart or courageous enough to do it in one go as better men have.

3. If the derange turnip, or outright fraud Jesus is actually known from evidence to have believed in something, it's all the more reason to add a bit more to usual level of skepticism about it.

4. Do your job in a airtight box somewhere, we'll let you out when you are done.