Followers in Young Earth creationism have a different set of beliefs about the Earth. The Bible states in Genesis that the entire earth was formed in six days. Young Earth creationists believe, as Biblical chronology suggests, that the Earth was formed in 4004 B.C. Mainstream scientific journals discriminate against this point of view for "lack of evidence", despite large amounts of Biblical evidence backing this theory.
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Not everything in the Bible is meant to be taken literally, you know. Even Christ taught with something called a "parable," a story meant to impart a concept but that was not a recounting of an actual event.
Conservapedians seem to have no problem discriminating against Qur'anic and Vedic evidence.here .
Last time I saw an encyclopedia, it was more neutral than this shit. And incidentally, a book written by people who didn´t know what an atom was, is not a proof.
"Followers in Young Earth creationism have a different set of beliefs about the Earth."Thank you, Capt. Obvious.
"The Bible states in Genesis that the entire earth was formed in six days."
It IS true that the Bible claims that.
"Young Earth creationists believe, as Biblical chronology suggests, that the Earth was formed in 4004 B.C."
This is also true. It's wrong, it's sad, it's stupid, but it IS true that YECist believe it.
"Mainstream scientific journals discriminate against this point of view for 'lack of evidence', despite large amounts of Biblical evidence backing this theory."
Science is science because it requires real, credible evidence. That some ancient texts claim one thing or another is irrelevant to science without substantial, credible evidence supporting the veracity of those texts.
I'm afraid you can't use the phrase "Biblical evidence" in any form of logical debate, since this assumes that both sides accept that everything recorded in the Bible is de facto true. Think about that. If both sides agreed that the Bible was 100% true, then they wouldn't be having this argument in the first place, would they?
"Followers of Allah have a different set of beliefs about God. The Qur'an states that there is no God, but Allah, and that Muhammad is his prophet. Non deathcultists discriminate against this POV for "lack of evidence", despite large amounts of Qur'anic evidence backing this theory."
Yes, biblical evidence is an excellent source for a religion, but...
oil takes millions of year to form, not 6003 years, if the bible was correct, there'd be no yanks in the middle east (oh the irony).
Biblical Basis for a Young Earth
Followers in Young Earth creationism have a different set of beliefs about the Earth. The Bible states in Genesis that the entire earth was formed in six days. Young Earth creationists believe, as Biblical chronology suggests, that the Earth was formed in 4004 B.C. Mainstream scientific journals discriminate against this point of view for "lack of evidence", despite large amounts of Biblical evidence backing this theory.
"Followers of Communism have a different set of beliefs about the economy. Das Kapital states that we will inevitably face a world revolution. Communists believe, as Das Kapital suggests, that this will lead to the classless society under planned economy, where everybody has the possibility to lead his life to its fullest potential. Mainstream economic theories discriminate against this point for "lack of evidence" and numerous counterexamples from history, despite large amounts of evidence from Das Kapital and Lenin's writings backing this theory."
@ anon2
Sorry, but I'm gonna have to defend Karl here. Das Kapital is a meticulously researched piece of work that is no way comparable to creation myths. Marx argued that capitalism would lead to centralisation of capital, unceasing development of technology, the absolute growth of the proletariat as a portion of the economy, and the inevitability of a world market. None of those predictions are wrong - in fact all of them have been obviously confirmed by history. This is not to argue that Marx was perfect. But he was not just making stuff up. (the book was published in 1867 when capitalist economies were a small propartion of the world...)
I just get fed up of marxism is a religion, lol.
Andy really does air the fundamentalists' dirty laundry doesn't he? He really says it like it is, without all the weasel words and creative wording they usually use to hide the glaring holes in their arguments. With Andy, all the holes are right there, plain as day!
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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