Flat earth, blood letting, and a host of other crap used to be widely believed by the majority of scientists and was taught in classrooms. There is no definitive evidence for evolutionism - NONE. There is however evidence that evolutionism is false, "How do we know the earth is billions of years old? Various dating methods. How do we know the dating methods are accurate? Duh, because the earth is billions of years old." Circular reasoning crap.
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Boooooring! A typical PRaTT (point refuted a thousand times) and example of jaqing of (just asking questions).
If you're gonna ask, it helps to pay attention to the answers.
But it's more fun to jaq off, right?
Flat earth, blood letting, and a host of other crap used to be widely believed by the majority of scientists and was taught in classrooms.
Until real science disproved them.
Educated people have known the Earth was round since ancient times. Heck Eratosthenes calculated the size of the Earth in the BCEs. Flat Earth has never been believed by the majority of scientists, and if it's been taught in classrooms, that teacher was terribly uneducated.
And we know the dating methods are accurate because they agree with each other, and with things with known ages, and with other methods such as dendrochronology.
Key words being "used to be". For science, learning and changing based upon what you learn are major components. For religion, they're dangerous evils to be fought every step of the way.
++"There is no definitive evidence for evolutionism"
For instance, a scientist could cite a wealth of such evidence. The fundie, on the other hand, would steadfastly deny ever being shown such evidence no matter how many times or ways it was presented. Then, 100 years later, his descendants would claim credit for the discoveries by citing some obscure OT reference to a goat in a wheat field while simultaneously "debating" them by claiming the the discoverer recanted on their deathbed.
"There is no definitive evidence for evolutionism - NONE."
Good, so we can give you all of the 50-year-old antibiotics, because they worked just fine back then. They only way you'd need anything different is if the bacteria have evolved, and since you don't believe that happens, you don't get the latest antibiotics.
What that you say? They're not working? Sorry, better start praying, cause that's all you get!
It was the Church who controlled EVERYTHING when those practices were taught and the only schools were ran by churches.
Also your whole world view relies on "The Bible is the divine word of God because the bible says it is and we know that's true because the bible is the divine word of god." That is circular reasoning defined.
You won`t say, like how you were taught homosexuals are mentaly ill and other such crap? Gee, sure is good we no longer rely on a bunch of old religious texts to fit and mash our entire knowledge of the world into, don`t you think?
Flat earth used to be a religious belief.
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OK, well maybe it wasn't totally flat, what with that firmament up in the sky and all.
The dating methods are circular reasoning, but 'the bible is ultimate truth because the bible says it is' is perfectly reasonable.
Obvious doublethink is obvious.
Setting aside that evolution and the origin of the planet are separate matters...
How do we know the dating methods are accurate? Physics. We know how certain isotopes decay. We can measure this in a lab. Since you take a steady state view of most things, assuming that physics has always worked like it does now isn't a stretch. Therefore, we can date these things.
There is no circle. Then again, I wouldn't expect you to get that.
Creationism used to be taught in schools and accepted by scientists as well. Does that mean creationism is the new bloodletting, flat earth, or four humours?
As for the age of the earth, it is demonstrated using a variety of other methods, as is the age of the universe. Repeated testing has established the validity of the age of earth and the accuracy and precision of radiometric dating.
I'm sure that as that thread progressed some asshat finally came in with the "Scientists locked Galileo up after he disagreed with them". I know Comfort and Hovind both suggested this, trying to wedge flat Earth and Sun orbits Earth onto intellectuals and claiming the Bible/churches never suggested such things. Many fundies still spout shit like this out, actually suggesting there were intellectual Cabals back then influencing kings and the populace, possibly the ever elusive Illuminati.
Hey, hey, hey. Those things were believed by the Church , not by scientists.
The reason we know the Earth is billions of year is because we have various dating methods, which all concur.
Flat Earth, blood-letting and other crap are still only believed by fundies, as ever.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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