Comments on: “Old earth” on the rocks? http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/ Unity in charity, diversity in truth Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:51:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Evolution at Cornell Society for a Good Time http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-19891 Evolution at Cornell Society for a Good Time Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:30:33 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-19891 [...] a post not too long ago, I suggested that we owed some applause to Bishop Vasa for being willing to [...] [...] a post not too long ago, I suggested that we owed some applause to Bishop Vasa for being willing to [...]

]]> By: Aliqui Peccator http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16636 Aliqui Peccator Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:48:00 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16636 I suspect he's talking about these little fellas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acambaro_figures The figures are a hoax if you ask me. Now the earth, on the other hand, IS the centre of the physical universe. Or so we should choose to believe. I suspect he’s talking about these little fellas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acambaro_figures

The figures are a hoax if you ask me.

Now the earth, on the other hand, IS the centre of the physical universe. Or so we should choose to believe.

]]> By: Catharina Senensis http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16556 Catharina Senensis Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:57:58 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16556 Who said anything about an old earth "dogma"? It is theologically inconsequential whether the earth is 6000 or 3.5 billion years old. I infer from your usage that theological dogma is the only kind worth calling dogma? Petty sarcasm aside, I defer to the husband on this one (as on most matters; after all, I *am* a respectable traditionalist). Why would God go through all the trouble of making the radioactive-dating data point to an old earth? The only recourse is to blame the atheist-secularist for inventing a truth of radioactive-dating. Possible. Perhaps, though, you're too busy rubbing elbows with Sungenis to bother proving it yourselves. Just as in the humanities there are ways to falsify a "Donation of Constantine," there are also ways to falsify absurd ideas in the sciences. If you trust them not, investigate for yourself. Otherwise, count on the academic's avarice for self-glorification to tear down the paradigm. Surely to them, love of self trumps all contempt for Christianity. Who said anything about an old earth “dogma”? It is theologically inconsequential whether the earth is 6000 or 3.5 billion years old. I infer from your usage that theological dogma is the only kind worth calling dogma?

Petty sarcasm aside, I defer to the husband on this one (as on most matters; after all, I *am* a respectable traditionalist). Why would God go through all the trouble of making the radioactive-dating data point to an old earth? The only recourse is to blame the atheist-secularist for inventing a truth of radioactive-dating. Possible. Perhaps, though, you’re too busy rubbing elbows with Sungenis to bother proving it yourselves.

Just as in the humanities there are ways to falsify a “Donation of Constantine,” there are also ways to falsify absurd ideas in the sciences. If you trust them not, investigate for yourself. Otherwise, count on the academic’s avarice for self-glorification to tear down the paradigm. Surely to them, love of self trumps all contempt for Christianity.

]]> By: iacobus http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16552 iacobus Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:29:13 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16552 Surely better those poor young-earth fanatics were eaten by dinosaurs than even to suggest something so patently unreasonable, so contrary to the nature of God, so utterly impossible, and so blatantly outrageous in our supremely level-headed age. Surely better those poor young-earth fanatics were eaten by dinosaurs than even to suggest something so patently unreasonable, so contrary to the nature of God, so utterly impossible, and so blatantly outrageous in our supremely level-headed age.

]]> By: Iosephus http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16551 Iosephus Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:12:39 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16551 You mean, the devils inspired them to scratch their deceptive pictures on rocks so that, one day, down the road, a number of gullible persons would be led to fall away from the dogma of an old earth? You mean, the devils inspired them to scratch their deceptive pictures on rocks so that, one day, down the road, a number of gullible persons would be led to fall away from the dogma of an old earth?

]]> By: Catherina Senensis http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16511 Catherina Senensis Sun, 08 Jul 2007 02:34:08 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16511 Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. While we're at it, isn't the world flat? AND the physical center of the universe? Ok, so I'm confirming Bishop Vasa's stereotype regarding the instant scorn for the misguided young-earth types who believed dinos ate humans. Why are we trusting some dumb most-likely-devil-inspired pagans who made a couple of scratches on rocks anyway? Scorn over. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. While we’re at it, isn’t the world flat? AND the physical center of the universe? Ok, so I’m confirming Bishop Vasa’s stereotype regarding the instant scorn for the misguided young-earth types who believed dinos ate humans. Why are we trusting some dumb most-likely-devil-inspired pagans who made a couple of scratches on rocks anyway? Scorn over.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16500 Andrew Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:58:39 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16500 Iosephus, his email just bounced back to me. I'll find his diocesan email - that one should work. Iosephus, his email just bounced back to me. I’ll find his diocesan email - that one should work.

]]> By: iacobus http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16498 iacobus Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:06:31 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16498 Oh, dearest President... Oh, dearest President…

]]> By: Ambrosius http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16494 Ambrosius Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:00:17 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16494 Oy, His excellency is, I'm sure, in earnest, and I'm sure his interlocutors are honest to some extent, but the claims made by various scientific authorities about, inter alia, the age of the Earth and the relative ages of humans and dinosaurs cannot be discarded on the evidence of a few sketched stones from Peru. The concordance of evidence for an ancient Earth is almost shockingly immense; and while it might be possible that the Allah of the Muslims would create a world wherein virtually every piece of evidence in it points to one conclusion based in reason, while the truth itself is different and the facts all staged, it is nearly unthinkable that the Logos of God would be so comprehensively misleading. Oy,

His excellency is, I’m sure, in earnest, and I’m sure his interlocutors are honest to some extent, but the claims made by various scientific authorities about, inter alia, the age of the Earth and the relative ages of humans and dinosaurs cannot be discarded on the evidence of a few sketched stones from Peru. The concordance of evidence for an ancient Earth is almost shockingly immense; and while it might be possible that the Allah of the Muslims would create a world wherein virtually every piece of evidence in it points to one conclusion based in reason, while the truth itself is different and the facts all staged, it is nearly unthinkable that the Logos of God would be so comprehensively misleading.

]]> By: Iosephus http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16472 Iosephus Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:01:37 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16472 <a href="http://www.sentinel.org/people/10099.html" rel="nofollow">Write to him</a>! I bet that he'd tell you. Write to him! I bet that he’d tell you.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16471 Andrew Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:28:12 +0000 http://www.cornellsociety.org/2007/07/old-earth-on-the-rocks/#comment-16471 Interesting. I'd like to know what book he was reading (obviously the Bible will tell you what you need to know). And I'd like to see the cave paintings. Interesting. I’d like to know what book he was reading (obviously the Bible will tell you what you need to know). And I’d like to see the cave paintings.

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