[quote]It's funny because it's obvious you're serious...! The same science, for example, that helps us understand, and control, nuclear fission. The same science, for example, that helps us understand nuclear fusion. The same science, for example, that produces linear accelerators that make different kinds of ionizing radiation that we can control and aim to treat different types of cancer using radioactive substances...the same type of substances that scientists use to date rocks and fossils. Science has determined that we have rocks that are 3.7 billion years old, and they have used many different dating methods to determine this factual evidence regarding the antiquity of the earth.[/quote] You were using science up to �the same type of substances that scientists use to date rocks and fossils.� That�s where you switched to philosophy.
Now I understand more clearly how people's cognition can cause them to blindly follow a cult leader. So our knowledge of radioactive substances that help us take atoms apart and use the particles of atoms to fight cancer, control nuclear fission and use it as a power source, and understand nuclear fusion are all science...but our knowledge of those radioactive substances, when used to date rocks and fossils, is "philosophy"...? Got it Ringman.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams
