Non-Christians: What if the Earth really was 6000 years old?

[thaanatos]

they are archaelogical fact

lol, Spyder....you are a strange mixture.....you berate truth because it cannot be proved, but you believe crap unquestioningly......

[CookieD18]

If you bring a child up as a Christian, Jew, Muslim, or any religious type really, religious texts will already teach creationism, intelligent design and the idea of at least one more powerful being pulling our strings. Then there are the services you go to at least once a week, if you are a church-goer.

Therefore, to teach such things in state schools need not be allowed, as those who believe such things already, already get enough of them. So arguments can be made on the practicalities in some areas.

But the deeper issues, like trying to prove the Earth was 6000 or 6000billion years old will not be possible until we can show that current methods are not inaccurate. I am sure a great many scientists will be working on this as we write.

[Zan de Man]

No respectable scientist seeks to "prove" anything. Proof is a mathematical conept. What can be taught is the evidence that has been demonstrated empirically and the method for gathering more and better evidence.

[spindok]

Originally Posted by Zan de Man

No respectable scientist seeks to "prove" anything. Proof is a mathematical conept. What can be taught is the evidence that has been demonstrated empirically and the method for gathering more and better evidence.

Well said Zan.

Spindok

[ninjalooter1701]

Originally Posted by Neko

Chirstians: what if it was proved that the dating systems used in the 14th century BC were flawed... And that Earth really was 4.5 billion years old. Would this alter the way you view God and Christianity?

On second thoughts, never mind.

I still think that this is the best post in the thread.

[Spyder Jerusalem]

Neko is the Snark Queen.

Snarkiness at a whole other level.

[sarmajor]

So whose to say Adam and Eve didn't live a couple of million years.

If they had been married for a couple of million years Adam's trouser snake would have caused more discord than any interfering serpent.

Adam would have been so pissed off with her bitching and her endless headaches that he would have chucked her out after only a century or two.

How long could he have stood her continual nagging about how well her friends were doing while her shiftless husband could only provide a Garden of Eden

[Tom Joad]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qmgl...eature=related

[Gilles de Rais]

Originally Posted by Justin

What if it was proven that the dating systems used today were flawed...and that the Earth really was only around 6000 years old. Would this alter the way you currently view God and Christianity?

Yes.

"When the data changes, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

[Trogladyte]

A hundred years from now it isn't going to matter.

[Xentil]

Quote:Originally Posted by Neko
Chirstians: what if it was proved that the dating systems used in the 14th century BC were flawed... And that Earth really was 4.5 billion years old. Would this alter the way you view God and Christianity?

On second thoughts, never mind.

I still think that this is the best post in the thread.

I agree. And Sarmajor is the king of thread necromancy.

[sarmajor]

I agree. And Sarmajor is the king of thread necromancy

Should I be flattered or offended ........... or google 'necromancy' to find our whether I am for, or against, it?

[potter]

Probably meant king of necrophiliacs....

[sarmajor]

Originally Posted by potter

Probably meant king of necrophiliacs....

Let's just say that I am the King of all that I survey

[SCREAM]

Originally Posted by Laughing Gas

The "what if" game is silly, at best.

What if you were visited by the noodlely goodness of the Great Flying Spaghetti monster...would you renounce your evil Christian / Jewish / Muslim / Pagan / whatever ways and believe in him?

Any reasonable person, when faced with actual evidence of the existance of something, will believe in that thing. Any reasonable person, when faced with the lack of evidence to believe in something, won't believe in it.

Where the atheist and the believer differs is that the atheist doesn't make an exception for their specific "God" that they choose to believe in dispite having no reason to believe in it.

That does it! From now on I am no longer going to chant in the woods naked for your good health!!!

[scouser1956]

two questions before I answer.
Which God, there have been and are lots that have been believed in?
Which type of christianity?