When it is clear that there were dinosaurs walking the Earth millions of years ago?
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I don't know it makes no sense even to the creationists.But some one put that out there and it then became fact.
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It isn't clear. It has taken a lot of hard thought and work to gather the evidence — no one said proof, but the proffered evidence is overwhelming to anyone who's paid even scant attention — that the Earth is old.
People with a scientific bent tend to ignore utter nonsense about "variable seconds" and other Creationist machinations that allow for a young Earth.
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People with a scientific bent tend to ignore utter nonsense about "variable seconds" and other Creationist machinations that allow for a young Earth.
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Well, there are two reasons. The first (stupid) one is the assumption that the Bible's time lines are accurate, which puts 'adam and eve' in place about 6000 years ago, and a week for the other creation stuff to happen. Since adam and eve are an allegory dating to Moses' time, and NOT historical...
The other is that time is not consistent. At the time of the Big Bang, a second was billions of times shorter (or longer) than the modern one, and it's been slowing (or speeding up) ever since. While the mechanism does not contradict science theory, it gets too complicated, but it is (believing or not) consistent with what we observe in the universe. The shortest time since the Big Bang works out to be about 6,000 years. At least, it works out to be less than 10,000 years in today's seconds.
So, either you accept the creationist viewpoint (making dinosaur and other fossils hints to fool us into thinking that we 'understand' science) which gives some 6000 years of existence or you can look at the view of the variable second, which can give a scientifically consistent explanation with dinosaurs and all the rest, and its 6000 years of existence (so there would have been dinosaurs, etc., but they still died out long before mankind arrived on the scene).
Most people with a scientific bent tend to ignore both of these, of course...
The other is that time is not consistent. At the time of the Big Bang, a second was billions of times shorter (or longer) than the modern one, and it's been slowing (or speeding up) ever since. While the mechanism does not contradict science theory, it gets too complicated, but it is (believing or not) consistent with what we observe in the universe. The shortest time since the Big Bang works out to be about 6,000 years. At least, it works out to be less than 10,000 years in today's seconds.
So, either you accept the creationist viewpoint (making dinosaur and other fossils hints to fool us into thinking that we 'understand' science) which gives some 6000 years of existence or you can look at the view of the variable second, which can give a scientifically consistent explanation with dinosaurs and all the rest, and its 6000 years of existence (so there would have been dinosaurs, etc., but they still died out long before mankind arrived on the scene).
Most people with a scientific bent tend to ignore both of these, of course...
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Because they're hell bent on following religious beliefs from 2000 and more years ago. They haven't brains enough to move up to the 21st century. Scared little sheeple.
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Persistent and deliberate lies by frauds who take the money of the suckers who believe them
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Religious Brain Washing.
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Mad religious teachings.
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Large numbers of people in a closed group tend to pervert themselves...add religion and it gets worse!
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really? we have proof from MILLIONS of years ago?