Re: some help please (druid)

Eric P. wrote:
> In article <45cb0793@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, tussock <scrub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Will in New Haven wrote:
>>> How can one be an atheist in a fantasy setting when gods are doing
>>> miracles everywhere one looks?
>>      Sing it, brother.
>>
>>      How can one think the world is 4000 years old in a world where the

>> mountains plainly show the effects of thrust folding thousands of times

>> that. Where even our own most ancient constructions and the oldest
trees 
>> are older than that? Real people believe all sorts of crazy ****.
> 
> 4000 years, indeed *L* I'm hoping folks are more enlightened than that, 
> in this day and age...'specially since there's indisputable proof that 
> human civilizations have been around for ~40,000 years.

Google for "young earth creationism". People in this day and age are 
willing to argue that life began in 4004 BC.

 From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_earth_creationism:

"The defining characteristic of this belief is that the Earth is 
"young", on the order of 6,000 to 10,000 years old, rather than the age 
of 4.5 billion years estimated by a variety of scientific methods 
including radiometric dating. Some YECs derive their range of figures 
using the ages given in the genealogies and other dates in the Bible, 
similar to the process used by James Ussher (1581–1656), Archbishop of 
Armagh and Primate of Ireland, when he dated creation at 4004 BC. 
Ussher's chronology, published in 1650, has been subsequently revised 
many times, most recently in 2003 by Larry and Marion Pierce. YECs 
believe that life was created by God 'each after their kind' in the 
universe's first six normal-length (24-hour) days. Additionally, they 
believe that the Biblical account of Noah's flood is historically true, 
maintaining that there was a worldwide flood (circa 2349 BC) that 
destroyed all terrestrial life except that which was saved on Noah's 
Ark. Barry Setterfield proposed in 1999 that the flood occurred much 
earlier around 3536 BC."