Re: some help please (druid)

In article <12smmej3s257i9a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Arthur Boff <arthur.boff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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 (1581­1656), 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."

To take "six days" literally as six rotations of the planet Earth is 
folly. OTOH, there's plenty of evidence to sup****t to notion of a flood 
that happened in the area of the Middle East and other parts of the 
Mediterranean, but I don't know if there's any evidence to sup****t the 
notion that the surface of the entire planet was thereby covered in 
water.

Those YEC types need to get a clue.

- E