On 31/07/2006, at 4:17 PM, Brother John wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
Are you a fundy? Do you believe that the earth and heavens were
created in six days approximately 6000 years ago?
No, I think that the "six days" mentioned in the Bible are more
properly thought of as six creative periods each of which is of
indeterminate length. Each of those "days" could easily have been
tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years long or even
longer. But if I do not know exactly how long the earth was
forming before mankind came on the scene, I highly suspect that the
scientific community doesn't either. Just during my own lifetime
they have repeatedly changed their estimates almost always claiming
that the earth is much older than the last time they pretended to
know. They obviously haven't got a clue.
You seem to have a problem with the concept that one revises a theory
based on new evidence. Whatever the current state of knowledge is,
that's just the current state of knowledge. Changing it as the body
of evidence grows is the honest thing to do. It's transparent, at least.
The estimated age of Earth hasn't changed much in my lifetime: when I
was a kid in the 1970s it was given as 4.5 billion years in kids'
books on prehistory, and now it's considered to be around 4.6 billion
years.
I know. Let's ask a geologist. I'm sure there's one on the List...
(...or two. I think there are two.)
Charlie
Radiodating Maru
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