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Yes 5 26.32%
No 11 57.89%
Maybe 3 15.79%
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Old 28th January 2007, 02:09 AM
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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?
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That would be amazing if it was...
But its not...and we can prove it.
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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.

Are you a "young earther?"
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Nope, I'm not going to waste half the day explaining something which you will just dismiss without consideration and a glib comment - try paying attention for the next 8 years and not sleeping through them as you appear to have done for the last 8.
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Old 28th January 2007, 03:32 AM
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Not currently...lol...but I've been on both sides in the last four or five years.
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Christians....Would you stop believing in god if an Alien Race landed on the Earth and showed you that they created us?
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Old 28th January 2007, 05:25 AM
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Would you start beleiving in God if an Alien Race landed and was also Christian?
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Would you start beleiving in God if an Alien Race landed and was also Christian?
That would be powerful evidence, I've considered this, but it also bears in mind that Christ could have been an alien visitor, far from a new hypothesis.
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It would make me less skeptical, but I would still be highly highly skeptical.
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What if it could be proven that moon rock was dairy-based? Would that alter the way you view the Moon?
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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.
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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?
It would alter the way I view the world, obviously, and the way I view God, but not Christianity.
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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.
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Oh, and I put "maybe" for the poll question. Why? Because even if it were proven that the earth is 6,000 years old, there would have to be some causal connection shown between the earth being 6,000 years old, and that Christianity is the most reasonable explanation based on other factors, for it being that old.
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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.
Yeah, uh whoops.
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The "what if" game is silly, at best.
As are half the threads in the poll and Anything Goes forums. I was just curious.
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What if it could be proven that moon rock was dairy-based? Would that alter the way you view the Moon?
If there was a worldview that had been claiming all along that hte moon was dairy-based...I might take another look at that worldview.
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You've never heard that the Moon was made of green cheese? You've led a sheltered life.
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The problem christians have if they are dating the world biblically is that no one knows the time passed from when Adam was created to when Adam sinned. Adam was immortal basically until he ate the "forbidden" fruit. When he committed this sin, death entered the human species thus the reason to keep time. So whose to say Adam and Eve didn't live a couple of million years.

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