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Originally posted by DeepFat: Scooter,
First, disregard anything Mr. Bill says. He believes the Earth is only 6000 years old.
We know better. He lies.
Second, he is ignorant of radiometric dating. I know, it's a big word, and you have no reason to understand it, but it is a scientific method to date very old rocks, which include fossils.
I know you're up to date on fossils. Fossils are where we find skeletons of dinosaurs. We know that dinosaurs are very old! 65 to 300 million years old! One of the ways we know this is radiometric dating. Don't worry if you don't understand this, it's a sophisticated scientific concept... you'll get it in time. Mr. Bill has superstitious reasons to pretend he does not understand this. Shame on him.
Mr. Bill would have you decide between god and science. This is a false and wicked choice. You can understand both. Make sure you learn as much as possible about both, ok?
DF
Hi to all,
"Mr. Bill lies!' So, saith Deep.
Has anyone noticed that, when referring to Carbon-14 Dating, I have given you links where you can verify for yourself what is said by scientists about the accuracy, or lack thereof, of Carbon-14 Dating past 50,000 years. Yet, evolutionist/atheist swear they can prove the earth is billions of years old -- by using Carbon-14 Dating. Someone sure has their carbon confused.
Next, you will notice that our Deep Friend's only rebuttal is,
"Bill lies!" That is his total rebuttal -- other than,
"So, saith Deep, this is the truth. Evolution is true; the earth is billions of years old. Charlie Darwin is divine. Creationist are crazy. There is no God!" And, on and on and on, ad infinitum.
So much
"So saith Deep" -- but, no facts, no URL links, nothing to prove that evolutionist can date the earth to billions of years -- by Carbon-14 Dating. Sorry, my Deep Friend, that will not cut it. Even Darwin had facts; albeit very confused and often contrived.
The Bible tells us that the earth is only about 6000 years old. How do we know this? In Mark 10:6, we have Jesus Christ declaring,
"But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.'" When Jesus said,
". . .from the beginning of the creation" -- what did He mean? He meant from Genesis 1:1,
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." We take this starting point for mankind, declared by Jesus Himself; then we look at the genealogy of Jesus found in Luke 3 -- tracing backward from the birth of Jesus back through the many generations -- to Adam. In the Bible, we see the two genealogies; Matthew tracing His genealogy according to Jewish custom (paternal), from Abraham forward to Joseph -- and Luke tracing His genealogy the gentile way (maternal), backward from Jesus to Adam.
Admittedly, there may be gaps in the genealogies; possibly not all generations were included. But, even accounting for this; we would only be talking about maybe hundreds of years difference -- certainly nothing like the billions of years evolutionists want the world to believe.
Either way, starting with the declaration given by Jesus,
". . .from the beginning of the creation" -- and using the genealogies, one can get a fairly accurate number of years when laying these alongside the ages of different men stated in the Bible -- and we can arrive at a reasonable age of the earth based upon these facts. This is how Archbishop Usher in the 17th century, and later Sir Robert Anderson in the 19th century, made their determination of the date of creation. I would highly recommend Anderson's book,
The Coming Prince to everyone interested in a deeper knowledge of the book of Daniel.
The following excerpt is from the web site:
http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Fellowship/Edit_Sir.Robert.Anderson.html Sir Robert Anderson and the Seventy Weeks of Daniel
The significance of Sir Robert Anderson's book, "The Coming Prince" (1895), should not be underestimated by modern students of Bible prophecy, in that Anderson not only ably defended Daniel's authorship of the Book of Daniel from the "scholarship" of unbelief of the Higher Criticism of his day, but he clearly established the historical accuracy of the fulfillment of the time oriented prophecy for the First Advent of the LORD Jesus Christ. "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself" (Daniel 9:24-26). So, my Friend, Deep, might feel that he is defending his evolutionist/atheistic position by merely calling Bill Gray a liar. That is no big problem. After all, Fish has called me and every Christian believer on the Forum liars -- hundreds of times. Whatever.
I pray that this clarifies why I sincerely believe the Bible to be the true Written Word of God -- and that it is accurate and inerrant in its moral and spiritual teaching and in its record of historical facts.
God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,
Bill