CenturionV said:
puglover You seem like a reasonable christian, you might want to check out the book, The Genesis Flood by John C. Whitcomb & Henry M.Morris, its an excellent scientific look at evidence for and against creation, and the global flood, it was first printed in 1961, and still refutes 90% of the evolutionist arguments common today, after reading this book, there can be no doubt that human evolution is the largest mass-lie believed by the scientific community EVER.
I couldn't help but chuckle when I noticed Henry Morris's name. For anyone who doesn't know, he is heavily involved in the Institute Of Creation Science (ICR).
http://www.icr.org/
The ICR was basically created to try and legitimise the teaching of religeon in schoolroom science classes. It failed in the Supreme Courts. The ICR has also been dismissed by the scientific circles as frauds.
The reason I bring this up is that the ICR is probably the best attempt to date to try and prove the Bible was true, accurate and scientifically possible.
Yet despite the efforts of Henry Morris and others, their entire stance is based on attacking evolution and nitpicking at any chink they can find, then claiming that since evolution must be false, then the only alternative left is creationism. Also, a trend of ICR "scientists" is to misquote, mislead and outright lie about any "fact" that backs up their ideas.
So I'd be careful about throwing that name around to give your arguement weight.
On the topic, if you refuse to be persuaded by the age of the world, then how about the facts of the great flood? If enough rain had poured down to cover the highest mountain in only forty days and nights, wouldn't that kind of deluge have strip-mined the earth? Not to mention where all that water came from, or went to.
And can anyone believe that the Ark held two of
every animal? Does that include all the billions of insects also? What did they eat? *
Lions look hungrily at the rabbits. Rabbits nervously move closer to Noah...*
Also consider that the worlds water would have been mixed up, salty and fresh, so Noah would have had to keep some pretty large aquariums to hold all them fish! Just lucky that when the flood was over and the water receded that the water 'unmixed' itself.
And when the Ark landed at Mt Ararat, the animals all dispersed neatly to their respective lands, with the Koala bears helping the kangaroos make a raft to float to Australia!?!
Don't worry creationists, I am sure God just time off from creating the illusion of an old world to drop a few loaves of bread on the Ark for food or whatever. He took quite an active role back then, wonder what he's been up to since?
I highly doubt that fruad would be the motivation of them, these people work very hard to show this and they're not multimillionares. Some of the luckiest ones can become millionares with thier books but this is no sure fire easy fraud. I highly doubt Stephen Jay Gould is in it for the money, noone writes a thousand page book just for the money in thier 80's. You can clearly see that they do it for the joy of figuring things and to see the beautiful inner workings of nature. Also your statement contends that since no major evolutionary figure suddenly went creationist because of the data for creationism they must not be looking at the data, I surmise that it is because they are looking at the data (which clearly supports evolution) they have become more and more convinced.
