Harris281 wrote on Apr 7th, 2011 at 3:40pm:Everyone check out this video.
I am a Christian and believe the Earth is 4.6 billion years old. This video is driving me crazy. I don't know the Bible fits in with this new discovery? Help!!
Jake
I don't believe the earth is 4.6 billion years old, but it also isn't 6000 years old either. Radiometric dating is extremely flawed and filled with assumptions. That is a separate subject.
Try to imagine a road that is 47 miles long. It is pitch black and you have a flashlight that shines only 6 inches long on this road, and then you use that tiny amount of road that is known to determine the other 46.999 miles of complete darkness. They use 10,000 years of known information and project that out to 4,700,000,000 years. They have no idea the conditions of the earth materials at that time and the rate of decay is assumed to always be the same. They have absolutely no way to verify this. It is not scientific, but is only based on the weak human mind's assumptions and faith in those assumptions. That is not science. OK?
Because we have 100% pure lead on this planet, and lead has ONLY been know to come as the "daughter material" of Uranium isotopes, it is impossible for pure lead to exist without lots of Uranium with it. They forget this part and then make up stories about how this pure lead got here.
You have to learn to learn and how to think about these things from the perspective of WHAT? and WHY? and you need to study the science to realize what I know.
The DNA evidence between Chimps and Humans is absolutely compelling and it fits with the Bible as far as I am concerned.
What happens when ancient small culture, tribe, of people are separated from other humans, any form of prophecy intelligent messages from the Maker, to protect them at all and they go live in a place with trees, volcanic action and radioactive minerals on a survival level for a few thousand years and see what happens.
They did not have the Mosaic law to protect their genome from degradation. They did not have the benefit of knowing about DNA contamination from naturally occurring, radioactive, elements. When you look at the DNA of Chimps in comparison to humans you can see the remnants of humanity in them. The scull, is retarded and reduced in size. The DNA used to replicate brain cells is screwed up. The DNA in the vocalization and verbal areas is screwed up.
The bone structures are all distorted. But the remnants of humanity is obvious. They are our cousins with a special message for us about what can happen to us if we continue to disregard the laws of genetics and continue to believe in magical nonsense that humans are evolving or improving.
There is no magical evolution fairy that fixes our genomes. Only the Genetic Engineer who made us can really fix it. There is a prophecy about that in every ancient book from the seers and it is supposed to happen before humanity is destroyed.
There is only absolutely irrefutable evidence in DNA that humans are degrading genetically from not following the "owners manual" to protect us from extinction.
There are several of these "owners manuals" around, some have been screwed with and don't have the correct information or the reasoning behind these "instructions".
I posted some information on this on the Objective Morality thread.
I think that Chimps are a message from God to us about where we are heading if we continue to disregard the instruction book that preserves our genome from genetic degradation.
We are already seeing the signs of severe genetic degradation in that we have over 4000 genetic defects that cause illness in the human genome. That alone destroys the idea of any net positive "evolution" towards more fitness and more intelligence. We have what we have and we are not getting any more, at least, not right now.
This has never happened on this earth:
Evolution: "that theory which sees in the history of all things organic and inorganic a development from simplicity to complexity, a gradual advance from a simple or rudimentary condition to one that is more complex and of a higher character." Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language.
Click the link and read, ask more questions.
http://evolutionforum.info/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1298082277