creationists?

Question

how many of you also believe the earth is flat? If you do not beleive this, but reject science and evolution, why?

Answer 1

Scott perhaps you should go open a science text book. The earth is billions of years old, there is no debating this fact. What you have is a very small, very vocal group who are hanging on for dear life to the idea of genesis in the bible. The same goes for the creationists.

Atheists don't worship science, I know many atheists who don't know jack about it and are atheists for various reasons.

Why people are caught up on one missing link is beyond me. There are thousands of transitional fossils proving evolution. You are talking about finding one of very few skeletons on a planet, when millions of years have passed since it would have walked the earth. Beyond a needle in a hay stack. Yet christians blindly believe in a book missing it's first 350 years about a person that has very little evidence existed.

Answer 2

"The other problem to avoid when dating rocks is the possibility that changes to the rock have caused loss or gain of either the parent or daughter element - this would lead to a false date (too old if parent element were lost, too young if daughter element were lost). I know of two methods that have been designed that can account for this possibility - isochron dating and the uranium-thorium-lead discordia / concordia method (actually three independent age calculations for one sample). Both of these methods have internal checks for the possible loss / gain of elements to the rock.

Creationists want the world to think that geologists just grab a rock and throw any old radiometric test at it and poof - there's the age of the rock. Reality is far more complex. If you examine the extensive research in the field of geochronology, you will see that one of the most important criteria in dating a sample lies in choosing an appropriate dating method for the sample. From G. Brent Dalrymple"

I have a massive problem with creationists, they are arrogant and wrong and it can be proven with hard indisputable science! Why people think this is a debate is beyond me, if people must be a Christian then they should use their normal excuse of faith to just simply not need to make an alternative to science.... pseudo science is dangerous to civilisation - we dot make fake gods simply because we dont believe in theirs!
If this nonsense continues I think we should pull a scientology and just make up a religion and then demand that we are allowed to teach it in school alongside creationism and in churches.... well ok, I couldn't be bothered to do that but it would make a good point!

Answer 3

I'm not a creationists but I can't stand to hear the comments from people like you. They are using science for their basis of belief, you just choose the science you prefer to believe, they choose the science they prefer to believe. Science ultimately can't completely dismiss the notions of creationists, or 100% validate the existence of the Earth for Billions of years. Nor can science validate evolution unless a missing link has been discovered and I missed it somehow. You just choose your belief based on the evidence, but it isn't completely conclusive. I am a Christian and happen to disagree with the creationists on both history of the world and evolution (although I don't believe man evolved from primate), but give them their absolute right to believe whatever they want knowing I don't have the science to disprove their theories either.