Re: paleonet YEC&DinoBlood

["Michael Kishel" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Definitely not.  They have a scripture alone world view and that's basically
all there is to it.  I'm not exactly sure but it seems to be based upon the
idea that advanced civilization evolved during that time period.  I think
that they have also done some backwards math from some biblical accounts
that are somewhat historically verifiable namely the exodus account citing
Rameses.  To my knowledge there isn't anything that has been discovered that
doesn't in some way fit into the current scientific theories.

-Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lane, Harold" <hlane@nsf.gov>
To: <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 6:10 PM
Subject: RE: paleonet YEC&DinoBlood


> Can they provide an independent scientifically-based date on the 6-10
> thousand year age of the Earth?
>
> Rich
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk [mailto:paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk]On
> Behalf Of Sally Walker
> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 3:51 PM
> To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
> Subject: paleonet YEC&DinoBlood
>
>
> 31 Oct 05, Hello Michael and all:  we just had a YEC (Young Earth
> Creationist), a Dr. Charles Jackson, come and participate in a lively
> debate for our Demosthenian Society. He debated whether ID should be
> taught with evolution at the K-12 level.  He used the Schweitzer paper,
> and argued that the fossil record can't be old at all because of the
> beautifully preserved veins and, there you have it, the evidence that
> dinosaurs were recently buried by the proverbial Flood.  It didn't help
> that CNN broadcast a bloody-red picture of dino veins when the news
> broke this year...(a 'Turner' classic colorization).  And yes, YECs
> believe the earth is 6000 years old (or, at the most, 10k years old),
> and some of the ID-people believe that the earth is billions of years
> old.  They both agree, however, that a creative designer designed the
> earth and all it's inhabitats and that they think that ID is a "theory"
> on par with evolution, albeit using our evidence to prove their point
> rather than disprove their point.  Sally E. Walker, Univ. of GA, Athens,
> GA USA
>