"unless you have absoloutely no faith in radiometric dating" I see you're new to this argument
no, he has no faith in carbon dateing
on the point of Snoj's desire to turn the public schools of America into Cristian madrasas,
you are confuseing morality with religon, it is quite plain to see that we, as a socal creature, have evolved inherant behaviors enableing us to get along with each other,
I doubt you would argue the point that people are born with an inherant understanding of right and wrong (though I'm sure we'll argue on were it came from), I am also sure that you and I would agree that following these rules is important for us to maintain a healthy civilisation, I am also sure that we would agree on the majority of the basic rules, things like: killing someone is generaly a bad thing (unless there trying to do an equal or greater bad thing to you or someone alse),
and don't steal,
and shareing is generaly good,
be nice to people,
there is however a few that I am sure we'll disagree on, for example:
there is one God, the Father All-sovereign, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible;
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, and the only-begotten Son of God, Begotten of the Father before all the ages, Light of Light, true God of true God, begotten not made, of one substance with the Father, through whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from the heavens, and was made flesh of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man, and was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried, and rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures, and ascended into the heavens, and sits on the right hand of the Father, and comes again with glory to judge living and dead, of whose kingdom there shall be no end:
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and the Life-giver, that proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and Son is worshipped together and glorified together, who spoke through the prophets:
and if you don't agree you will burn in a pit of hell for all eternity, so you are not alowed to beleve diferently
now for you that last one is a biggy, for me it is not a truth, it is a belefe, if you chose to beleve it fine, but you can not force someone to beleve it, and you can most certanly not enforce it through the government.
to me there is no greater act of violence than to try and force someone to beleve the same thing as you, (not to be confused with defending ones belefes)
but some things must be tought in schools, so science will be the measure of known fact, science says nothing on the unknown, it fully egnoleges that it does not know anything, and you can fight any point so long as you have evedence to back you're self up, there are many people that hold a belefe of historical fact and a belefe of spiritual fact that would seem to contradict each other.
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