On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:23:04 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote in :

There is recent science from studies of both the Grand Canyon and Mt.
St. Helens that calls into question many of the assumptions of the
scientific communities assumptions about the age of the earth and the
time required to create formations such as the Grand Canyon.

Do those unnamed "scientific" studies also call into question carbon
dating?


Unlike religion, science employs independently verifiable and
independently reproducible methods upon which to base its conclusions.


I have no quarrel with organized religion as a civilizing force that
fosters brotherhood and community among its followers, but when it
embraces the likes of evangelical preacher and outted hypocrite Ted
Haggard, criminals like Jim Baker, Jim Jones, and countless Catholic
pedophile priests as its spokesmen, and openly fosters
magical-thinking instead of objective reasoning, the truth is so
evident as to be undeniable.



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"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to
escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." --The intellectual
Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180)