Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Do You Believe the Earth is 6000 Years Old?

Where's your mirror? Drop your self rightous indignation, look long and hard into it and question your own beliefs and assumptions.

But I guess you aren't interested in the truth, natural stellar and planetary formation, genetics, adaption, evolution....do you find the truth 'insulting?' Do you find open inquiry and questioning 'insulting?'

If only it was this simple. Currently the schools are teaching the Governments agenda. In other words, brain washing the kids leading them to socialism. If you choose to send your children to private school, you still have to pay your fair share of the public school system. Most folks can't afford that kind of double paying for stuff. miles

90% of elementary school teachers are female.

How do women vote, especially in big cities?

They're not teaching the "government" agenda, they're teaching their own agenda.

So, if the world is a simulation, as many scientists are saying is increasingly likely, his old is it?

Idaho_Shooter,

Apparently you don't understand "prohibiting the free exercise thereof...."

Yes Rich, I understand it well.
I heard all about it in Sabbath School as a tyke.
I said I heard it, I did not say I believed it.

Yet, I have not seen anyone in America executed, or even jailed for meeting in a church, or a home, or even discretely praying over a meal in school or other public place.

Part of freedom of religion is freedom from religion. Part of that you don't get to shove your religion down the throats of my kids in a school paid for with my tax dollars.

Scientific observable FACTS are still science even if they conflict with the religion of some small minority of the population.

And are thus suitable for teaching in public schools.

Again, one is free to teach one's kids whatever you want at home. Today in America, you are free to opt out of public school entirely with tremendous home schooling, and online opportunities, or private parochial schools.

You have not kept up with some school programs.

Perhaps you should watch the video, "EXPELLED! No intelligence allowed."

I have. The "Intelligence" referenced in the title is "intelligent design" being allowed in science classes. ID is religion, not science, and does not belong in science classes.

Rich, please identify a situation where one was jailed or executed for meeting in a church, or a home, or even discretely praying over a meal in school or other public place.

Hardtobelieveanybodycouldbethatfuckingstupid

In my world, Public school teachers would not be allowed to teach any personal opinions, on any subject. They do, and have done so for a long time, resulting in how screwed up the United States has become. I see Christianity no worse than a lot of other opinions being taught. miles

I don’t know how old the earth is exactly, but if you held a gun to my head, I would say it’s far younger than many believe.

I am convinced by many proofs that there is a God and that he is involved in our day-to-day lives. I am convinced that people are acted upon by good and evil that exists outside and separate and apart from their own intentions and desires. I do not think a really intelligent person can be an atheistic materialist. I believe that the world operates by processes that we may or may not understand, though I do not rule out us understanding them better at a later date. I think much of what we claim to know and understand about physics and the laws of the universe are akin to classical physicians who”knew” disease was cause by imbalances of the humors in the body. Much of what we don’t know is termed “supernatural”, but is in reality anything but and completely natural but beyond our understanding.

I think given what we currently understand about the process within the cells and the insurmountable mathematics involved, Darwinian evolution is an impossibility. Even at four billion years, there hasn’t been enough time for random evolution as envisioned by Darwin to occur.

I’m okay with not knowing the answers to everything. I’m not incurious, I simply don’t worship my intellect nor anyone else’s and realize that there are limitations to what we can understand. I don’t discourage anyone from looking nor discount their answers. But I am skeptical of anyone who states anything with authority as that we’ve always found our knowledge to be lacking in the end no matter how settled and accepted it was.

Yes....plus about ten million more!!