Carbon dating was never meant to give million of years. Yobor did mention that it unfallable for a few hundred years.
I agree with you. What is to say God did not create the World through the big bang, and life on earth through evolution? But it is incompatible with creationist thinking, or we wouldn't be debating this here.
One camp says one thing, the other camp says something else althogether. You can't add up detailed genealogy that accurately points out each generation from Adam to the birth of Christ, and thus get 6,000 years, and then say well, that is compatable with the big bang.
Coincidence this story was just on CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/06...r.ap/index.html
It does mention that the fossil did not have parts that suggested it walked upright. But there are many other fossils that show there are many humanoid species very similar but different from humans. Where do these "missing links", some of whom seem to even have used tools feature in genesis?
Rather than what Yobor said which is basically religion is dead wrong and science can be proven true. All I can say is that the scientific conmmunity is where it is because a web of evidence from fossil records, genetic research, and archaeology suggest evolution does occur.
It is not as some people have preached, which is that man have tried to rufute God for thousands of years. Science is not making a beliberate attempt to refute God, the evidence points us towards evolution. I really don't think the scientific community has been duped by the devil as some would suggest!
I do not believe in the Christian God despite having gone to church for a period of time, had I lived in a Muslim country maybe friends would have asked me to go to a mosque.
I do believe in a higher power, if not a being. But I do not believe in a God of one religion because religions contradict each other.
If the Christian God was true, then 80% of the World's population are going to hell for not believing. If the Islam God was true then same for the rest of the people.
I really can't believe that people from different religions pray and meditate and feel the same type of spiritual enlightenment and see miracles as each other. Yet due to doctrine 5 billion other people will be going to hell.......for all eternity! There are friends of mine who honestly think some of their relatives are burning in hell.
If God was merciful, he shouldn't have given us free will. Knowing what would happen he shouldn't have created man in the first place! Why create mankind and have billions burn in hell? Certainly, even had I believed and it was true, and I was in heaven. I honestly cannot be happy knowing that most of my friends are in hell and buring for all eternity with no hope of getting to heaven, ever.
The theological debate for me is much stronger than the scientific debate, and it often bugs me because if it was not for this I would be a Christian. Anyone got any inputs?