[_ Old Earth _] Questions for Creationists

[Blazin Bones]

Hi all, I'm new here. I had no idea (until recently) that there were still so many people that were YECs, or that were still trying to disprove evolution.

To all YECs out there - what is your single most important reason, besides the Bible, to believe that the earth was created approximately 6,000 years ago?

To other creationists - what is your single most important reason, besides the Bible, to believe that evolution is false?


Heather

So Basically, you're afraid or just don't want a Christain to use God's word to defend God.

Heather, I'm a YEC, and the answer to #1 is because the more we test carbon dating the more we find wrong with it. And as other have said, Faith compels me to believe God's design.

#2. All evolution can be explained by adaptation.

 

[Quath]

1. Irreducible concepts have usually found not to be irreducible upon further study. See Talk.origins for an explanation of the bacterium flagellum.

2. There are transitional fossils in the Cambrianexplosion. See Talk.origin again for a clarification of this mispreception.

3. I would have to see an example of this to know what is being referred to. I guess you mean that eyes appear in many different species that were not related. This is not a problem for evolution because sometimes the solution for a problem is the same. So squids and humans both have an advantage to seeing stuff. Yet the problem for Creationists is that the squid eye and human eye are functionally the same, but have a different "design." Squid eyes designed so light does not travel through blood to get to the receptors whereas human eyes are. Why would God deign well one time and worse another?

4. Some junk DNA gets changed to non-junk status, but there is still junk DNA. Check out Talk.origins for some futher insight into this.

and read the book "Case for a Creator"by lee strobel it has scientific evidence that's points to a intelligent designer...it's truly amzaing.

I read his book "case for Christ" and found him to be inconsistent and contradictory. He argues by analogy instead of facts. He misconstrues data to fit his need. He will argue that truth is not determined by a vote and then say that Jesus's death is true because so many people were suppose to have seen it.

I think his book was there to help people close down their minds and believe what they wanted to believe in the firstt place. If you are really looking for the information, such tricks as he uses will not be persuasive.

Quath

 

[Vanaka]

Well if you want proof other that the Bible, how about scientist themselves.Let's consider a few facts scientist have discovered.1. According to scientific discoveries, the Mississippi River deposits silt at a known rate. At the river's present size (scientist acknowledge it was larger in the past) only 5,000 years would be necessary to build up the river delta! What happened to the silt during the billions of years of an evolutionists calendar?2. Scientist have also discovered that the sun burns up at a rate of about 5 feet per hour. Now the sun is so huge that it is not noticeable to the naked eye but scientist know that it is burning up. However, at the rate scientist have given, the sun would have been DOUBLE it size only 100,000 years ago! Anything trying to live on the earth would have been burned up. Consider this as well, 20 million years ago the sun would have been touching the earth! :o What about 200 million years ago at the time of dinosaurs according to scientist?3. Scientist also tell us that the moon is moving away from the earth at a rate of 2 inches per year. Doesn't sound like much right? However, 2 billion years ago the moon would have been touching the earth! and what about 5 billion years ago? Well, according to evolutionist, the moon should have long been out of view of the earth!4. Both the earth and moon collect cosmic dust. Erosion on earth has caused very little of the dust to remain on the earth's surface. The moon has no erosion. Evolutionist and NASA experts expected to find that the moon's dust would be over 50 feet deep. Man were they shocked to find that in its deepest part it was only 3 inches deep! :o There are other things one could look at and see the folly of evolution. Using their own facts, any person can see that the earth simply cannot be the age evolutionist need it to be. All of these scientific facts (silt deposits, rate the sun is burning up, rate the moon is moving away from the earth and the amount of cosmic dust on the moon) simply do not agree with evolutionist. However, go back to only 6,000 years ago (Bible age) and you have harmony with what these facts tell us.

These are all facetious arguments based on questionable or non-existant data and a profound misunderstanding of basic science which no real scientist accepts.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/howgood.html

can ya prove that? :roll: :-D