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Originally posted by CSflim
The point is, that all religions make various statements of FACT.
Christianity (in its undiluted, non wishy-washy form) says:
The earth and all of its inhabitants was created in six days by an all powerful, all knowing force. Then 4000 years later a guy named jesus,
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WRONG!!!!!!
Sorry, but let me get my Anthropology notes out to let you know of an error you made here. I'm not meaning to be an ass, but no where do we say that the world is 6000 years old.
A man by the name of Archbishop James ussher used the bible to state how old the Earth was. He even came up with an EXACT time. He stated that the Earth was created at 9:00 AM October 23rd, 4004 B.C. I'm a christian and I find this to be a load of crap.
Dendochronology alone goes back 11,000 years to the Ice Age. The only reason it doesn't go back further is because the ice kind of had a way of wiping out the tree line that was used for the dating method. Dendochronology is by comparing tree rings and going back in years. Trees in a region will have a certain thickness in their rings depending on how well they 'fed'. From this you can actually compare trees through generations.. the newer generation will have years that coincide with the the older generations and so on and so forth.
Oh also, I will soon be getting my hands on the PDF on Ussher's methods so I can delve further into this.