Reciprocating Bill
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| Quote (Daniel Smith @ Jan. 16 2009,19:06) | I want to congratulate you all. I came here with an argument, and, while none of you have managed to counter that argument (or any of the many forms it has taken since then), you have managed to successfully counter an argument I never made (the flood/age of the earth). You've defeated a position I never researched, never pursued, and never disputed. (I did, however, express my indifference to the subject.)
So a hearty congratulations to you all! That's quite an achievement!
What's next? Candy from babies? Rolling geriatrics? |
Daniel, where is it written that you alone are to introduce facets of this debate?
You asked that I show where you deny and dismiss scientific assertions that are in fact well in hand and beyond reasonable dispute. We've just showed you several instance of exactly that (your statements regarding the flood, dinosaurs coexisting with human beings, and the age of the earth).
Were I to ask you if you whether the earth orbits the sun, or the sun the earth, would you beg off by stating that is "possible" that the sun orbits the earth, but you need to research the topic? Rejection of our current understanding of this relationship entails the rejection of the entirety of hundreds of years of the natural sciences.
Rejection of the current understanding of the age of the earth requires a similar rejection of somewhat more recent, but no less settled, science.
So what ARE your beliefs regarding that question?
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Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be.
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
- David Foster Wallace
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- Barry Arrington
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