Faith says:
It looks different from my side where the evidence you think you have just doesn't do what you think it does.
I want to make this as gentle as I can. You seem like a very nice person, you don't use vulgar language, you are not driven away in fulminating anger. You have a spirit of fighting. BUT:
Sometimes I wonder why you are here. The premise at the opening doorway into this place has put you in a bad spot. You have none of the weapons that you are allowed to carry in the debates here. This gets back to the basic agreement of joining this forum - you have to present scientific evidence to support your argument. It's a stacked deck against you. Your unscientific weapons are no good here. They are useless. You are entering an environment that runs counter to your worldview, where you are in over your head.
There basically are two courses of action you could take here, well maybe three, but the 3rd is not what I would want to see. The 1st might be to consign your contributions only to a very peripheral region of the discussions (such as a description of how you became a YEC) and that would be to just posit that God put everything the way it appears and magically created what we see (such as your strange construction of the origin of the Grand Canyon). The 2nd might be to retain your fervent and completely okay belief in the Christ, etc., and join the OEC folk who have no problem with scientific evidence on their level. The 3rd would be to leave. Which would be sad.
There is a 4th option as well - LEARN SCIENCE, but you just may not be able to do that. Some people cannot understand complex differential equations or some of the weird tensor math used in cosmology - no matter how hard they try to learn it - and they quietly close that door. So no big deal here, but take it to heart.
- xongsmith, 5.7d
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