Comments on: How old is the earth, and how do we know? https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/ Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:27:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499965 Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:27:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499965 Steve, thanks for the thoughtful and insightful comment.

]]> By: steve https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499964 Fri, 07 Nov 2014 21:24:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499964 i do know one thing you can tell you dum ass libs by the shit you say i bet one thing i bet i can kick the shit out all you fag libs

]]> By: Pankaj https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499963 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:08:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499963 Hi Everybody Yes certainly what you are reading now is not Science at all because scientists call it research. I.e. to search again …Even a scientist like Albert Einstein was really puzzled how Indian new so much about the Cosmos .It does not make me a person who does not love god .I believe a lot in Jesus. We do not want to buy a specific reality because we think science does not match with it…neither does god match with science.Some of you say sun,moon, have you ever tried doing a reverse calculation before saying its wrong..Even one of the biggest scholars had to say “I know that I know nothing’ We have just reached 2 planets till used to think the world was flat.So many of the scientific conclusions have gone wrong. Let us lead a happy life since when ever we look back and don’t know we become rigid ..Scientists say earth is 4.5 million years old

]]> By: bemused https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499962 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 02:30:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499962 Fairly interesting. Not really here to have a go at any one person or group, but i would suggest that free speech includes points of view you do not agree with. I would also suggest that there is quite a difference between rational discussion of a particular point of view and attempting to impose that point of view on another. For example: I happen to be of the opinion that reading a book compiled many hundreds of years ago and beliving it to be anything accept a comentary on the times in which it was (variously) written is a mistake. Thats an opinion. I am quite happy to rationally discuss why i belive that. What i cant and wouldnt do, is try to convince anyone else that my view is “correct”. People have to discover their own truth. If they choose to belive a thing, then that is fine. If they try to convince me with rational argument, that too is fine – i am willing to enter that debate. However, if they are closed to any arguement except their own, then there isnt really discussion to be had..it is not so much discussion as dogma. Dogma is a statement that accepts no alternatives or questions . I strongly belive (in certain things) , but im happy to entertain an alternative.
If discussing something makes you angry, dont.

]]> By: hogarth https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499961 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:19:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499961 To add to my previous comment regarding christmas trees, I refer the reader to Jeremiah 10:2-5:
“Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. “

]]> By: hogarth https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499960 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:09:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499960 Tyler Needham, the bible doesn’t exactly “ban” christmas trees, but there is only one mention of a decorated tree, and it was placed at the grave of Nimrod, who was not beloved of god. Similarly, Jesus never said to celebrate his birthday, and in the bible the only birthday that is specifically celebrated is that of Herod.
This is why, for example, the Jehovah’s Witnesses do not celebrate Christmas. It was created long after the time of Jesus by people who were already used to celebrating the Saturnalia at the end of the year. It is a pagan holiday, laden with pagan traditions, that Jesus never told us to celebrate.

]]> By: Tyler Needham. https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499959 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:38:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499959 Jason,
I’d like to see legitamate documentation that all bibles were destroyed except one rewritten by drunk Irish monks. I agree that many many… OK one more…Many Christians are arrogant and ignorant about how their own religion originated. And way to many know nothing of apologetics. Damn shame. That said I think that if you truly are wishing for education, that ALL, theories/hypothesis/dreams/revelations , or whatever else you want to throw in there, of our human existence should be covered in school.
Also how the hell do you say that our economy is falling because of Christians? How the fuck are they even related? (Chirp chirp chirp) oh that’s right they aren’t. You may be tired of hearing that God made the world in seven days according to a collection of historical documents, written by over 40 different authors on different continents over a span of over 1500 years, and the authors were eye witnesses who wrote the “books” during the life span of other eyewitnesses.
But would you like to know what I am tired of? I’m sick and tired of hearing that the bible is full of shit by people who Google why the Bible is wrong swallow it hook line and sinker and then proceed to misquote the bible and rant about the uneducated. Educate yourself in the bible and theological history because you sound like some fuck-tard that doesn’t know shit. The bible never condones racism, nor bans Christmas trees. For Pete’s sake Christmas wasn’t celebrated by anyone in its current form with trees and the lot until well after the bible was written. For you to make such an argument shows that you should not speak because, and I quote, “hypocrites and intellectual morons should not be allowed to speak”.

]]> By: i dont have to give my name https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499958 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:24:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499958 Look scientists u isn’t have to say it Luke that shut up and accept God and if u Don ur going to go to hell

]]> By: sean https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499957 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:25:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499957 The bible says the earth is about 6,000-7,000 years old, but scientist believe it is 4.7 billion years old which is impossible. This is correct because of 6 reasons. You can see these 6 or more reasons at How old is the earth? – Answers in Genesis. I also did some research using a magazine of mine called Christ of the nations: special edition February 2011. It says that the earth can’t be 4.7 billion years old because Niagara falls recedes 2.5 feet a year. If the earth was 4.7 billion years old, Niagara falls would have reached the ocean. Also the moon is drifting away from the earth 2 inches a year. If the earth was 4.7 billion years old the moon would have started 148,358 miles closer to the earth. Therefor causing catastrophic global flooding twice a day. But, if the earth is 6,000 years old the moon only started .2 miles closer to the earth. This proves that the earth must be 6,000- 7,000 years old.

]]> By: Jonathan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499956 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 23:48:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/02/26/how-old-is-the-earth-and-how-d/#comment-499956 Thank you for educating me and replying to the questions which broke it down even more!

Science may not have all the answers but at least there are people who are dedicated to trying to find and explain them!

Thanks. Gracias. Merci. Danke. Takk. Dankie.

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