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I once had to explain that the earth was a sphere to one of these born again (or whatever) Christians. I did it by using the example of his own travel around the globe on a round the world ticket. I don't know where exactly he went to school but he was certainly educationally abused. Somewhere...

Worms was a joke... and I'm too lazy to put everthing through another website..... Centrifugal force is not produced through maths it is modeled through maths. It is 100% understood. Arnie's education has lacked the explaination of centrifugal force. It's also not involved river errosion...

Arnie Manitoba seems to disagree with you. Also the Christians who stand in the town centre looking for converts all seem to want the world to be more simple than it is. This is damaging to themselves and to society in general.

The reason you have trust in the idea of the plane not crashing is because it has been demonstrated lots before. Some bloke just saying that it's OK is never enough. Arnie, Your education was very poor. That's not your fault. You are a helicoter pilot and thus must be fairly clever and fairly...

Experienced time is, according to the theory of special relitivity, experienced at differing rates but you would be able to tell if you were traveling faster than the universe around you or had been. It will not fit as a possible excuse to take Genisis at all literally.

The science of physics is used to do the maths which predict if a plane will fly. Every time I get on a modern jet and am very confident that it will get me to the destination is a very strong proof in my opinion.

That's another "God has faked the sky". That would not at all explain the depostis which can only be formed on the bottom of an ocean or sea over many hundreds of millions of years being crushed up to form the Hymilayas. Or most other mountain ranges.

Wrong. All science is about the understanding and demonstrating of nature.

The chance of a black hole being between you and any point in the sky is very tiny. They such up light within their event horizon. That's the limit of the degree of gravity which is strong enough to not allow light to escape. Stephen Hawkins's work strongly suggests that this event horizon...

I think that the "go away and look at these endless videos telling you nothing" tactic is standard in debating with theists. Any chance you can just tell me what it says? I don't seem to have a problem explaining the formation of sandstone deposits from a photo.

The image I posted shows light being lensed around galaxies billions of light years awayand ago. The from the light from the very distant galaxy has to have been bent around the distant galaxy billions of years ago or it will not look like it does. I repeat;- Either 1 The scientists have...

Raining, I have just said (sorry about the typo) that ; That means I am saying that the argument Arnie has put forward is an example of the "God has faked the sky" style of idea I refered to in post 23. You have to slow down and think what the other person is actually saying. I understand...

Nice idea but wrong. What we see when we look at light from galaxies billions of years ago is an image of what the universe was like back then. They are close together. Not close to earth. The composition of then differers from modern ones. Your idea does not stand up to scrutiny. It is...

OK, so it was a huge lake with sharks in it. Or at least that's what you seem to be saying. You are also saying that there were these sharks living in it for many years many thousands of years ago. I am not aware of any fresh water sharks so that sounds a little strange to me. A flood deposit...

Arnie, This image shows light which has been lensed around a galaxy billions of light years away and which origionally came from stars in a galaxy many more billions of light years away. I say image because it's not an actual photograph. All the light has had to have been adjusted to put it...

I would need the detail of where the fossil teeth are found in North Dakota. What rock beds are they in? How old are they? Everest and Baja California are both mountain areas which have been fairly recently (by geologic standards) lifted up by the sea bed being crushed between the Indian plate...

Probably the flooding of the Black sea. There is evidence that this occured in the same period as early human huntergatherers were wandering around those parts.

Yes. The stem cells are harvesed after the fetus has been killed for other reasons. They had abortions back then in Jesus's time. He did not comment on them. Sorry but you are wrong. The earth is 4.5ish billion years old. The Sun is 5.5ish billion years old. The universe is 13.8 billion years...

The difference is that if the Bible is seen as the source of knowlege or of ethics then stupid evil things happen. Today the power of the Church is very little but today it is still enough to create situations in Ireland where a woman died due to the doctors not being able to abort the dying...

Dan57, Is the earth billions of years old with the clear evidence of the processes of life and whatnot being left in the ground by way of fossils and all the rest or is it a few thousand years old and all that evidence is just put there by God to confuse us? Arni, It's not just Finches. The...