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Originally posted by OnyxCougar
What's wrong with saying, "Gee, I'm not sure, but it could have happened like this:" instead of presenting it, (like I just saw on the Science Channel (formerly known as the Discovery Channel) as, "The earth formed billions of years ago." We don't know that. It may be true. But then again, it may be true that the earth formed 6,000 years ago, by a God.
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It's the same thing as a religious person saying "God loves us, even those who don't believe in him." It's a simple matter of someone being assertive and confident in what they believe. The difference is that the Science side of the question has actual evidence, where the Religion side does not.
And, I'd say we
do know that the Earth was formed billions of years ago, as much as we "know" many other things about our universe, such as the fact that the sun is a ball of fiery gas millions of miles away. When careful, thorough observation of evidence leads us to a conclusion, and there is no credible evidence to the contrary, we call that a "truth." Observation is our
one and only tool in determining truth, and so we must trust it, or call
everything into question. Such observation tells us that the Earth was created billions of years ago. It tells us that the Earth is
definitely older than 6000 years old. The only evidence to the contrary is a very old text from questionable sources which has been re-translated and edited countless times. That makes it's credibility very low.