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"Donald E. Sterling" |
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29 Jun 2007 02:47:22 PM |
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Bending the truth (a bit) |
I wrote to the alt.bible newsgroups about a biblical study that says
that the ancestry records of the bible indicate that humanity is about
6,011 years old and that this is not in correspondence with the
scientific discovery of 195,000 year old homosapiens. This is what I
got back from one Gabriel <gabriel_baptist@hotmail.com > who obviously
had a need to bend the truth a bit. He even gave a reference link to
a christian science magazine.
This is the lie of science, upon which your whole argument falls apart. You
believe them when they tell you with certainty these things are thousands of
years old.
http://www.icr.org/article/2033/80/
Turns out they are wrong.
Thanks for posting.
I responded:
We agree that they must have been operating under some sort of theory
previously to this find. How else would people be able to suggest
that the dinosaur was of a recent era. This view that the dinosaur
was young may have come as a surprise to many because the previous
theory was that there is no way that fossilization could preserve
soft
tissues.
First off, what they are writing about happened in 2003. The same
scientist (Schweitzer) has since then renounced the idea that the
dinosaur was young enough to be of a recent era. It had to do with
the stone that they were preserved in. They have been studying the
layers of the earth for sometime now and have found methods to
determine how old a rock layer is. So what they did was took
dinosaur
fossils from other rock layers that they knew were 80 million years
old and ended up with the same results. They found and have
published
(since that old outdated article) that this is not a revolution in
the
dating method of a fossil but in a method of retrieving preserved
parts of it. In other words they found a new method to examine
fossils with, not a new time frame for the existence of dinosaurs.
Here is a more recent article from March 25th 2005 about the same
dig. The SAME Scientist that was in the article you found
(Schweitzer) reveals that the fossils were of a much older era.
"Attempting to dissolve the minerals from a piece of fossilized bone,
so the theory goes, would merely dissolve the entire fossil."
Notice they use the word "theory". That was the old understanding of
preservation in fossils. Here is the new information.
"Schweitzer then duplicated her findings with at least three other
well-preserved dinosaur specimens, one 80-million-year-old hadrosaur
and two 65-million-year-old tyrannosaurs. All of these specimens
preserved vessels, cell-like structures, or flexible matrix that
resembled bone collagen from modern specimens."
The refrence link is here ----> http://www.physorg.com/news3506.html
Like I said, the rock layers that they found the other fossils in
were
definitely of an 80 million year old era. They know because of the
rock layers themselves.
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| User: "Gabriel" |
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| Title: Shady behavior by an evolutionist. Again. |
29 Jun 2007 03:41:14 PM |
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Hi Donald,
Interesting how you take it to a new thread, and now add the "bending the
truth" to it.
Perhaps it is you that's bending the truth? You already responded to me in
the thread it first appeared. How deceptive that you try to take the
argument somewhere else and change the entire spin into "bending the truth".
Quite shady of you to say the least. Wonder why you felt the need to do
that. Here's my response to show that you've shown nothing new with your
post that wasn't addressed in the icr.org article:
"Donald E. Sterling" <donaldsterling@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1183145111.311649.27540@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
On Jun 24, 2:31 pm, "Gabriel" <gabriel_bapt...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi Donald,
"Donald E. Sterling" <donaldsterl...@gmail.com> wrote in
messagenews:1182682147.069342.257490@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
Prepare to be Shocked
THE TRUTH ABOUT CHRISTIANITY
We all know that they have been digging up bones of people who are in
the hundreds of thousands of years old.
This is the lie of science, upon which your whole argument falls apart.
You
believe them when they tell you with certainty these things are thousands
of
years old.
http://www.icr.org/article/2033/80/
Turns out they are wrong.
Thanks for posting.
We agree that they must have been operating under some sort of theory
previously to this find. How else would people be able to suggest
that the dinosaur was of a recent era.
How else? Because maybe they ~were~ of a recent era, rather than millions of
years old, as they like to theorize? You seem to be operating on the idea
that it's all a fact, while the rest of the world theorizes about it all.
It's a theory they're 80 million years old, plain and simple. Not a fact,
but a theory. Which means they could be wrong and maybe it's not that old at
all. You can't beg the question by saying "how else would they be able to
suggest" as if you already know the truth yourself. You don't. It's almost
deceptive to act otherwise.
This view that the dinosaur
was young may have come as a surprise to many because the previous
theory was that there is no way that fossilization could preserve soft
tissues.
First off, what they are writing about happened in 2003.
No, what they were writing about includes what you mention in 2005. Here are
the references to the icr.org article on that page itself:
http://www.icr.org/article/2033/80/ makes references to:
1. Schweitzer, M. H., et al.,Science, vol. 307, no. 5717, pp. 1952-1955, 25
March 2005.
2. Boswell, E., Montana State University News Service, 24 March 2005.
So this article is well aware of the findings you're just now pointing out,
and your article is old compared to the one at icr.org.
The same
scientist (Schweitzer) has since then renounced the idea that the
dinosaur was young enough to be of a recent era.
One scientist renouncing it does not make it so. If so we could renounce
evolution and the big bang theory and never have to hear it again, as many
scientists renounce those all the time.
http://www.icr.org/article/2033/80/ again shows us this was not the first
time it happened. It also shows how wet "fossil" magnolia ("allegedly" 17-20
million years old) with fragments of genetic material, when water doesn't
take long to degrade DNA, completely unaddressed by Schweitzer to my
knowledge.
Not to mention what they found out about Bees:
"Spores of bacteria were found inside the insect and actually grew when
placed in the proper medium. Dr. Cano, the discoverer, took careful measures
to avoid contamination. Analysis of the DNA extracted showed it was very
much like the DNA found in bacteria growing in bees today. Just as the
creation model predicts, bees have always been bees and bacteria have always
been bacteria. "
It had to do with
the stone that they were preserved in. They have been studying the
layers of the earth for sometime now and have found methods to
determine how old a rock layer is.
No, they have theories on how to determine how old rock layer is. The fact
you need to realize is they could easily be just as wrong about this, like
they realize they were just as wrong about the existence of soft tissue.
So what they did was took dinosaur
fossils from other rock layers that they knew
Here's where you try to turn it into fact. They theorize the rock layers are
80 million years old. They don't "know" it is, as you claim. So based on
this "theory" of the rock being 80 million years old, it's still merely a
theory that the fossils contained in it are that old as well for this very
reason. The fact is "soft tissue would have degraded completely many
millions of years ago no matter how fortuitous the preservation process".
That's more compelling evidence that both the theory of rock aging along
with the theory of fossil aging are both wrong. So to make this a fact, they
need to show how soft tissue can be preserved for many millions of years.
Not just patch it with another theory that it must be as old as the rock
that we also theorize is millions of years old.
were 80 million years
old and ended up with the same results. They found and have published
(since that old outdated article)
See above. The icr.org article is more recent than the one you've used to
make this post with.
that this is not a revolution in the
dating method of a fossil but in a method of retrieving preserved
parts of it. In other words they found a new method to examine
fossils with, not a new time frame for the existence of dinosaurs.
But this method unearthed new evidence that debunks their theories. So in
essence, it challenges the theories on the claimed time frame for the
existence of dinosaurs.
Here is a more recent article from March 25th 2005 about the same
dig.
Again, it's old compared to the ocr.org article, as they reference even this
March 25th, 2005 finding.
The SAME Scientist that was in the article you found
(Schweitzer) reveals that the fossils were of a much older era.
No, theorized to be of a much older era, not "reveals".
"Attempting to dissolve the minerals from a piece of fossilized bone,
so the theory goes, would merely dissolve the entire fossil."
Notice they use the word "theory". That was the old understanding of
preservation in fossils.
And please notice the word "theory" in the attempt to claim they know how
old rocks are.
Here is the new information.
"Schweitzer then duplicated her findings with at least three other
well-preserved dinosaur specimens, one 80-million-year-old hadrosaur
and two 65-million-year-old tyrannosaurs. All of these specimens
preserved vessels, cell-like structures, or flexible matrix that
resembled bone collagen from modern specimens."
Which only shows the initial article is right: "the evidence seems to
indicate the T. rex fossil is -- well, young", along with any other fossil
that they do this test right along with it. It was a theory that dinosaurs
were millions of years old. Suddenly proof shows otherwise. So they use
other theories (determining how old rock is) to act like they have new
"proof" that it's still billions of years old?! It's still not proof. It's a
theory that also comes under fire from the incredible soft-tissue findings.
And even rock aging has its problems that your argument hinges on it being a
fact, rather than a theory, on how we determine the age of rocks.
http://www.icr.org/article/822/80/
The refrence link is here ----> http://www.physorg.com/news3506.html
Yes, this article is pointed out by icr.org. They were well aware of it and
referenced it.
End result, they still have no proof that the dinosaurs are as old as they
theorize, in fact they look to have less reason to believe their theories
are accurate, and instead they have new ~FACTS~ to contradict these theories
and indicate they are not. They have no proof soft tissues could last that
long (they just now make new theories that it does, of course), and even the
case of wet "fossil" magnolia having DNA evidence, when water doesn't take
long to degrade DNA is not addressed.
I asked in that previous article, and I ask it here now? Do you not believe
in God? Curious why you're in here to convince us that theories are really
facts to try debunking the facts that were recently uncovered that
contradict the evolutionist's claim on how old the earth must be. Curious
why you turn your original response into a new one with a dishonest twist of
"bending the truth". If you want to find people that won't think about what
you say, won't question it, and gloss over the misconceptions you put in it,
try an evolution newsgroup.
Thanks for posting!
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| User: "Dave Oldridge" |
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| Title: Re: Shady behavior by an evolutionist. Again. |
07 Jul 2007 11:18:56 AM |
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"Gabriel" <gabriel_baptist@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:K7ehi.246942$p47.49143@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:
Hi Donald,
Interesting how you take it to a new thread, and now add the "bending
the truth" to it.
Perhaps it is you that's bending the truth? You already responded to
me in the thread it first appeared. How deceptive that you try to take
the argument somewhere else and change the entire spin into "bending
the truth". Quite shady of you to say the least. Wonder why you felt
the need to do that. Here's my response to show that you've shown
nothing new with your post that wasn't addressed in the icr.org
article:
"Donald E. Sterling" <donaldsterling@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1183145111.311649.27540@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
On Jun 24, 2:31 pm, "Gabriel" <gabriel_bapt...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi Donald,
"Donald E. Sterling" <donaldsterl...@gmail.com> wrote in
messagenews:1182682147.069342.257490@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
Prepare to be Shocked
THE TRUTH ABOUT CHRISTIANITY
We all know that they have been digging up bones of people who are
in the hundreds of thousands of years old.
This is the lie of science, upon which your whole argument falls
apart. You
believe them when they tell you with certainty these things are
thousands of
years old.
http://www.icr.org/article/2033/80/
Turns out they are wrong.
Thanks for posting.
We agree that they must have been operating under some sort of theory
previously to this find. How else would people be able to suggest
that the dinosaur was of a recent era.
How else? Because maybe they ~were~ of a recent era, rather than
millions of years old, as they like to theorize? You seem to be
operating on the idea that it's all a fact, while the rest of the
world theorizes about it all. It's a theory they're 80 million years
old, plain and simple. Not a fact, but a theory. Which means they
could be wrong and maybe it's not that old at all. You can't beg the
question by saying "how else would they be able to suggest" as if you
already know the truth yourself. You don't. It's almost deceptive to
act otherwise.
This view that the dinosaur
was young may have come as a surprise to many because the previous
theory was that there is no way that fossilization could preserve
soft tissues.
First off, what they are writing about happened in 2003.
No, what they were writing about includes what you mention in 2005.
Here are the references to the icr.org article on that page itself:
http://www.icr.org/article/2033/80/ makes references to:
1. Schweitzer, M. H., et al.,Science, vol. 307, no. 5717, pp.
1952-1955, 25 March 2005.
2. Boswell, E., Montana State University News Service, 24 March 2005.
So this article is well aware of the findings you're just now pointing
out, and your article is old compared to the one at icr.org.
The same
scientist (Schweitzer) has since then renounced the idea that the
dinosaur was young enough to be of a recent era.
One scientist renouncing it does not make it so. If so we could
renounce evolution and the big bang theory and never have to hear it
again, as many scientists renounce those all the time.
http://www.icr.org/article/2033/80/ again shows us this was not the
first time it happened. It also shows how wet "fossil" magnolia
("allegedly" 17-20 million years old) with fragments of genetic
material, when water doesn't take long to degrade DNA, completely
unaddressed by Schweitzer to my knowledge.
Not to mention what they found out about Bees:
"Spores of bacteria were found inside the insect and actually grew
when placed in the proper medium. Dr. Cano, the discoverer, took
careful measures to avoid contamination. Analysis of the DNA extracted
showed it was very much like the DNA found in bacteria growing in bees
today. Just as the creation model predicts, bees have always been bees
and bacteria have always been bacteria. "
It had to do with
the stone that they were preserved in. They have been studying the
layers of the earth for sometime now and have found methods to
determine how old a rock layer is.
No, they have theories on how to determine how old rock layer is. The
fact you need to realize is they could easily be just as wrong about
this, like they realize they were just as wrong about the existence of
soft tissue.
So what they did was took dinosaur
fossils from other rock layers that they knew
Here's where you try to turn it into fact. They theorize the rock
layers are 80 million years old. They don't "know" it is, as you
claim. So based on this "theory" of the rock being 80 million years
old, it's still merely a theory that the fossils contained in it are
that old as well for this very reason. The fact is "soft tissue would
have degraded completely many millions of years ago no matter how
fortuitous the preservation process". That's more compelling evidence
that both the theory of rock aging along with the theory of fossil
aging are both wrong. So to make this a fact, they need to show how
soft tissue can be preserved for many millions of years. Not just
patch it with another theory that it must be as old as the rock that
we also theorize is millions of years old.
were 80 million years
old and ended up with the same results. They found and have
published (since that old outdated article)
See above. The icr.org article is more recent than the one you've used
to make this post with.
that this is not a revolution in the
dating method of a fossil but in a method of retrieving preserved
parts of it. In other words they found a new method to examine
fossils with, not a new time frame for the existence of dinosaurs.
But this method unearthed new evidence that debunks their theories. So
in essence, it challenges the theories on the claimed time frame for
the existence of dinosaurs.
Here is a more recent article from March 25th 2005 about the same
dig.
Again, it's old compared to the ocr.org article, as they reference
even this March 25th, 2005 finding.
The SAME Scientist that was in the article you found
(Schweitzer) reveals that the fossils were of a much older era.
No, theorized to be of a much older era, not "reveals".
"Attempting to dissolve the minerals from a piece of fossilized bone,
so the theory goes, would merely dissolve the entire fossil."
Notice they use the word "theory". That was the old understanding of
preservation in fossils.
And please notice the word "theory" in the attempt to claim they know
how old rocks are.
Here is the new information.
"Schweitzer then duplicated her findings with at least three other
well-preserved dinosaur specimens, one 80-million-year-old hadrosaur
and two 65-million-year-old tyrannosaurs. All of these specimens
preserved vessels, cell-like structures, or flexible matrix that
resembled bone collagen from modern specimens."
Which only shows the initial article is right: "the evidence seems to
indicate the T. rex fossil is -- well, young", along with any other
fossil that they do this test right along with it. It was a theory
that dinosaurs were millions of years old. Suddenly proof shows
otherwise. So they use other theories (determining how old rock is) to
act like they have new "proof" that it's still billions of years old?!
It's still not proof. It's a theory that also comes under fire from
the incredible soft-tissue findings. And even rock aging has its
problems that your argument hinges on it being a fact, rather than a
theory, on how we determine the age of rocks.
http://www.icr.org/article/822/80/
The refrence link is here ----> http://www.physorg.com/news3506.html
Yes, this article is pointed out by icr.org. They were well aware of
it and referenced it.
End result, they still have no proof that the dinosaurs are as old as
they theorize, in fact they look to have less reason to believe their
theories are accurate, and instead they have new ~FACTS~ to contradict
these theories and indicate they are not. They have no proof soft
tissues could last that long (they just now make new theories that it
does, of course), and even the case of wet "fossil" magnolia having
DNA evidence, when water doesn't take long to degrade DNA is not
addressed.
I asked in that previous article, and I ask it here now? Do you not
believe in God? Curious why you're in here to convince us that
theories are really facts to try debunking the facts that were
recently uncovered that contradict the evolutionist's claim on how old
the earth must be. Curious why you turn your original response into a
new one with a dishonest twist of "bending the truth". If you want to
find people that won't think about what you say, won't question it,
and gloss over the misconceptions you put in it, try an evolution
newsgroup.
Thanks for posting!
I have to say that I find it odd that any creationist apologist would
object to a little truth-bending, since, in my experience, it is
creationist "ministries" that have a POLICY of not just bending the truth
but fracturing it in little tiny pieces.
They do this most egregiously in the areas of physics that cross up their
false prophecies.
1. Radiometric dating is not just wild guesswork. It's based on very
solid physics. Creationist LIARS keep saying the exact opposite of this,
couching their lies in pretty words so that I can SEE that they have
clearly given some thought as to just how they will deceive their target
audience. That's mens rea. It shows that they intend evil.
2. The age of the universe is visible to our telescopes. And
rationalizations by phony relativists do not change the fact that the
universe manifests an age of some 13 billion years plus relative to us,
here, now (time is relative, but this is the point of view we are
concerned with). Again, the obvious attempt to deceive the ignorant
demonstrates malicious sinning.
3. The repeated and false claim that there are no transitional fossils
has been shown over and over and over again to be a straight up lie. In
fact, the lie is usually told with clever misquotes of actual scientific
literature in order to bolter its effect on the target (ignorant)
audience.
Now the target audience, being ignorant, can be excused for falling for
these lies--up to a point. But the liars who invent them on purpose to
deceive are guilty of a very serious and mortal sin against God and
against the scientists they libel in public.
The bottom line is that creationist apologetics is systemic violation of
God's commandment against false witness and therefore, by definitions and
traditions older than Christianity itself qualifies as deliberate,
obdurate sin and heresy! When you deliberately invite such heretics into
your churches and fawn all over them and give them money and moral
support, then you're as guilty as they are and are apt to end up in the
same lake of fire.
--
Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667
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| User: "Donald E. Sterling" |
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05 Jul 2007 01:19:06 AM |
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How else? Because maybe they ~were~ of a recent era, rather than millions of
years old, as they like to theorize? You seem to be operating on the idea
that it's all a fact, while the rest of the world theorizes about it all.
It's a theory they're 80 million years old, plain and simple.
Actually it's not. First off you were refering to the cabon dating
method.
And please notice the word "thoery" in the attempt to claim they know how old rocks are.
Nobody is saying that the rocks are 80 million years old. In fact the
"Rocks" are older than that. What they are saying is that fossil was
under 80 million years of rock "layers" or sediment. This isn't a
theory at all. This is a fact. They know this because massive
prehistoric seismic events are evident in rock layers. So, as you go
through the layers, you can see earthquakes and other natural
disasters that happened in the same time frame as the rock layers are
saying. As for the carbon dating method here is a good outlook.
Ever heard of an atomic clock. You may even have one in your home.
They also call them self setting clocks. They work on the same
priciple as the cabon dating method (the half life of a certain
element). So your trying to tell me that an atomic clock that reads
the exact time 100% accurately is simply making an ASSUMPTION of what
time it is and that tonight when I read the time from an atomic clock
I should dismiss the display as simply rhetoric. It would have taken
you 5 min. of research to disprove what someone had gossiped to you
instead of having to believe or more less repeat some nugget of
information that isn't even true.
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| User: "Gabriel" |
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| Title: Re: Shady behavior by an evolutionist. Again. |
05 Jul 2007 10:06:25 PM |
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Hi Donald,
"Donald E. Sterling" <donaldsterling@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1183616346.323642.319560@c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
How else? Because maybe they ~were~ of a recent era, rather than millions
of
years old, as they like to theorize? You seem to be operating on the idea
that it's all a fact, while the rest of the world theorizes about it all.
It's a theory they're 80 million years old, plain and simple.
Actually it's not. First off you were refering to the cabon dating
method.
There's dating of rocks and dating of fossils. Both are theories, and not
factual, although we like to believe we're ~probably~ right. But that does
not make us right. You however think theories are automatically facts. Not
much to say to a person who holds onto that type of religion.
And please notice the word "thoery" in the attempt to claim they know how
old rocks are.
Nobody is saying that the rocks are 80 million years old. In fact the
"Rocks" are older than that.
Nobody's saying that the rocks are 80 million years old? Do you not notice
that you again now just claimed they're even older than 80 million years
old?! My point exactly.
What they are saying is that fossil was
under 80 million years of rock "layers" or sediment. This isn't a
theory at all. This is a fact. They know this because massive
prehistoric seismic events are evident in rock layers. So, as you go
through the layers, you can see earthquakes and other natural
disasters that happened in the same time frame as the rock layers are
saying.
No, it's still theory. Events are evident. The exact amount of time ascribed
to those events is where the theorising begins.
As for the carbon dating method here is a good outlook.
Ever heard of an atomic clock. You may even have one in your home.
They also call them self setting clocks. They work on the same
priciple as the cabon dating method (the half life of a certain
element). So your trying to tell me that an atomic clock that reads
the exact time 100% accurately
100%? You sure you know all about atomic clocks? A clock that, according to
you, loses no fractions of a second per day? This is the danger of people
who operate on the religion of turning theories that suit them into facts.
is simply making an ASSUMPTION of what
time it is and that tonight when I read the time from an atomic clock
I should dismiss the display as simply rhetoric. It would have taken
you 5 min. of research to disprove what someone had gossiped to you
instead of having to believe or more less repeat some nugget of
information that isn't even true.
It clearly only took you 5 minutes to skip a great many refutations I
pointed out in the last post. Please refer to the icr.org articles as well,
which you clearly ignored. They refute everything you've brought up again,
including the things you ignored.
In the meantime, I wish you well elevating whatever theories you wish into
facts. Many who practice the religion of evolution do the same, not to
mention turning faked scientific findings into facts as well (some over 140
years old that other scientists have shown to be faked when they were
created) that remain in high school and college textbooks even today.
Thanks for posting and good luck.
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