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Thread #142452   Message #3332900
Posted By: GUEST,Shimrod
03-Apr-12 - 05:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Subject: RE: BS: Young Earth Creationism Eureka!
Sugarfoot Jack, I think that you're missing the point of my last comment. It's unlikely that the science is 'wrong' - although, some details might be - but all scientific knowledge is provisional and could be revised at any time in the light of new evidence. Science is not a monolithic body of incontrovertible 'truth' like that which some religious zealots believe in.

The real point of my comment is that Young Creationists, like pete, seem to think that if they keep picking holes in the 'monolith' that they imagine science to be then it will eventually crumble and 'Biblical truth' will be revealed in all it's glory. But that doesn't logically follow - if they succeed in discrediting science completely (which, of course, they won't - but let's just imagine)then anything could be behind the (imaginary) 'scientific monolith' - not just 'Biblical truth'! Why should anyone believe that 'Biblical truth' is the only alternative to science?