Age of the universe - William Lane Craig

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Dr William Lane Craig share some thoughts about Christianity and the age of the earth.

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[MasterRobinHood]

If you add up all the begats in Genesis, you get an age of about 6000 + since Adam

Although the Bible doesn't state 6000 years in one verse, you can do the math. Only way to get by a young earth is to either believe that the "days" god created the earth were billions of years in length, or that the whole creationism was more a poetic than an actual occurance.

[Solitarious2011]

@MrSamySara First off I did not mention the Hadron Collider so your response to neutrinos traveling speed based on that principal is floored. I speak from the perspective of Nuclear reactors that have continually witnessed in excess of light speed by neutrinos.

Please consider the difference between what you see on the media against someone who studys nuclear physics as part of their occupation. I think I should also state that E=mc^2 was a perfectly reasonable assertion at the time

[MrAluminous]

Craig is a theistic evolutionist.



[crucisnh]

@farrell2k I think that he confused the age of the Earth, which is supposedly around 4.5B yo, with the age of the universe, which is supposedly about 13+ B yo. I'll give him credit for not saying 6,000 years.

[Ozzyman200]

@farrell2k Yes he did. I can't believe I'm defending Craig here, as he's almost always wrong, but you can't fault him in this particular clip, mainly because it's so short.

[correctionguy]

@farrell2k You are a sir, sir. I tip my non-hat.

[farrell2k]

@correctionguy - Not a theist? Then I agree with everything you wrote, and will no longer argue with you. Reasonable people have no need to argue. :)

[correctionguy]

@farrell2k You said he has a 'fundamental ignorance of the science', though I would agree with that claim, it is a pretty vehement attack when you base that on him confusing a question of the earth with that of the universe.

No, I'm not a theist, definitely not a theist.

[farrell2k]

@correctionguy - Pointing out that he answered the wrong question is not a "vehement" attack, unless you define the word differently than the rest of us, which you may, for all I know. If you're a theist, you probably do. They tend to redefine things to suit their needs.

[correctionguy]

I do appreciate that he would admit the existence of observable evidence, but it still doesn't help make his belief in a God, especially the Abrahamic God, any more rational.