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@TalladegaTom Even if he can name specific scientists, writings, etc., he is best not to name them. By leaving his sources unnamed, he feeds into the delusion of his audience that the 'scientific counterpoint' is viable and active. Remember that he's not trying to win an argument, but to get vot...

@MajesticCyru Yes, I have listened to him, but I would not consider him a real authority on geology. Its not to say he doesn't understand it; I just think much of his work is very misleading. You can read more of my thoughts if you Google "questioning answers in genesis steve austin". Also, perha...

@samuraiconservative Wrong again! And you dodged my question, proving that you only know how to read someone else's critique of something you simply don't understand. LOL!

@dysfunction26 That was just my first impression. And yes, I could have guessed that you were raised Baptist.

What it may *have* looked like...

@GodExistsLovesYou With regard to the Mt. St. Helens eruption and radiometric dating, I've commented in detail on Dr. Austin's results and methods at my blog (just follow the link from my username). Those rocks were not dated to 350,000 years, because such an age is below the detection limit of r...

Interesting forum for discussing the impact of Gettysburg on the Confederate war effort.... Hey, did anyone notice the music playing in the background? Good stuff.

@knobcheese22 The fact that you are living, coincidentally, after much of the hard work has been done in the basics of science does not entitle you to arrogance. A hundred generations will dismiss your words on the same grounds—if you were only profound enough to be remembered.

One person dislikes this...? Who forwarded this to Christina Aguilera?

4:45 - "Direct U-Pb dating of Cretaceous and Paleocene dinosaur bones, San Juan Basin, New Mexico" by Fassett et al., 2011 in Geology.

No geologist believes that oil comes from decaying dino parts, or even debris from forests, for that matter. Terrestrial plant matter produces mostly gas when brought to thermal maturity. The best oil comes from marine and lacustrine algal matter. How do we know? Biomarker evidence, source-rock e...

@RuskePerson Hmm...I'm not Russian and I understood it just fine.

@Ripley747 Did he say that? Oh yeah, no...he didn't.

@cedric1671 Yes, that's true, I see what you mean now. I read a few of Dawkins' books to find a clear explanation of what a researcher in evolutionary theory considered to be the top evidences. Although I agree with his scientific conclusions, I think your terming him 'a parrot' is rather accurat...

@rayh3777 Actually, yes they do...in a way. Speciation (e.g. origin of the modern human species) occurs as the gene frequency of a population shifts over time; not as two members of one species give birth to an entirely new species. :) Thus the appearance of the modern human species was not abrup...

Does this guy understand anything about the issue—either the scientific or the exegetical aspect?—or does he just enjoy yelling a lot? This is an unfortunate misdirection of believers by a man that insists on poisoning the wells rather than shepherding the flock. Come, let us reason together... (...