Instead of "dumb", I would suggest:
Posted on 02/06/2014 8:33:34 AM PST by PapaNew
Creationist Ken Ham is having his 15 minutes, following a live debate on evolution held between himself and Bill Nye “The Science Guy” on Tuesday.
And while you’d expect most folks to deem Nye the winner (which they have), Ham is receiving criticism from a source you might not expect: televangelist Pat Robertson.
On the Wednesday edition of his TV show, “The 700 Club,” Robertson indirectly implored Ham to put a sock in it, criticizing Ham’s view that the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
“Let’s face it, there was a bishop [James Ussher] … who added up the dates listed in Genesis and he came up with the world had been around for 6,000 years,” Robertson began. “There ain’t no way that’s possible … To say that it all came about in 6,000 years is just nonsense and I think it’s time we come off of that stuff and say this isn’t possible.”
“We’ve got to be realistic that the dating of Bishop Ussher just doesn’t comport with anything that’s found in science,” Robertson continued, “and you can’t just totally deny the geological formations that are out there.”
“Let’s be real,” Robertson begged, “let’s not make a joke of ourselves.”
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Foolish questions like that only make creationists look dumb.
yes
Which, I guess, means that Ham paid to have Nye try to influence our children to go against God and by into this evolution nonsense.
Go to Setterfield’s site if you want the development, http://www.setterfield.org/
He is an astronomer and a physicist, and no one has accepted any challenge from him.(yet anyway)
You’re pretty new here, so I guess that’s why you keep making a fool of yourself?
This stuff has been batted around here for 15 years.
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Nice pic, did your Mom shoot it?
Our need for certainty and predictable outcomes is a biological imperative imbued in us by our creator as a method of survival. But wanting certainty does not mean all is and can be certain just because it makes us more comfortable.
Better.
Drop the "method of survival" part.
But wanting certainty does not mean all is and can be certain just because it makes us more comfortable.
Are you suggesting the desire for certainty/truth is an illusion ?
Don't be shy, many deep thinkers have suggested this before.
From your link:
So in a general sense, adiaphora means those Christian teachings which are neutral, things that are neither commanded nor forbidden in Scripture. An example of this might be what color of carpet to have in a church, or what time of the day a service should be held. Sometimes there is debate within Christianity on what may or may not be adiaphora.
I don't think this issue is an adiaphoron. While the 6k age is something man-made in that it isn't commanded or forbidden in scripture, creation is described there.
There isn't a solid story line from person to person in the Bible such as to support calling the Biblical stories a genealogy.
You’re the best comic relief we’ve had here in a decade.
Differing definitions is a possibility. I understand you to be satisfied with the numbers geologists propose. That's fine. There is much about their work I appreciate, but I feel in no way obligated to accept whatever they propose. That would be arbitrary, too. Quantum mechanics is creeping up on a reality that makes a billion year proposition as relevant as a nanosecond proposition, all of which is very much in accord with what the biblical text teach regarding the Creator.
You crack me up.
I was going to use that exact image.
LOL
You’re completely wrong, but that is probably due to the dearth of time you have spent studying the issue.
The genealogies contain specific ages of parents at the birth of the child.
“Are you suggesting the desire for certainty/truth is an illusion ?”
No.
“wanting certainty does not mean all is and can be certain just because it makes us more comfortable.”
Not suggested, implied or insinuated.
No. Nye took the hard earned money from the Creation Museum not only under his misguided attempted to lead our children and apparently even some adults astray, but also out if pure greed.
So it’s not 6000 years but instead 7000 or 8000 or 10,000. That’s still a whole lot different than the 4.6 billion years that science teaches and is still a number that flies in the face of scientific evidence. Yet we’re supposed to belive that Science is wrong because Ham said so, and that Ham is right because he claims God said so? No thanks.
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