Not only old material that makes up the earth, but it also had to be in orbit around the sun with temperatures and climate similar to what it has today, for hundreds of millions of years, or all their intellectual fulfillment for their atheism is gone. Today's science has trouble keeping satellites in orbit around the earth for more than a decade. A somewhat different thing I know, considering atmospheric drag and a few other differences, but it's still somewhat similar.
The only thing "somewhat similar" is Newton and the "somewhat different" is a gross understatement. We have no "trouble" keeping satellites in orbit for many decades. You never heard of Vanguard 1 or ATS 3 or Skynet all going on 50 years plus. And a low Earth orbit is
not anything comparable to the solar orbit of Earth. Your ignorance just put your foot firmly in your mouth.
But any questioning of a old earth by today's scientific community would never see the light of day.
You have probably heard of the
Laws of Thermodynamics. You probably don't like them because they do some real damage to a lot of your favorite biblical fantasies. But none the less, there is a reason the hundreds of idiotic "perpetual motion" patent submissions each year are dismissed out of hand. The science is so solid, the theory so thoroughly tested and retested over thousands of trials, the understanding of "why" is so deep that we know, for a fact, in each and every case, that "perpetual motion" schemes do not work. No need to waste anyone's efforts on showing the faults.
The sciences, lots of them in combination each with observations by the thousands over multiple disciplines, is so overwhelming, so solid, the understanding of "why" is so deep that we know that a way-old Earth, in the billions of years, is indisputable fact. Any purported "evidence" to the contrary is willful ignorance on the part of the proponent and, like the perpetual motion advocate, can be dismissed out of hand.
The total disregard of the thousands of facts in opposition or any claim of some religiously self-serving different interpretation (read misinterpretation) of those facts makes the ignorance of a young earth proposal palpable. Reality is against you. The question has been settled for more than 200 years. You will not, you cannot, change this.
It's a factual answer to believe that there could be more to reality than what science can understand, more than one time dimension, more than three space dimensions etc. That there are more sources of knowledge than science.
Why do you Biblicans always try to use the results of scientific thinking as a club against science? You think some priest using one of your "other sources of knowledge" poofed up the math and reasoning for extra dimensions in some divine epiphany between the choir's hymn and his homily?
We know there may be other dimensions, scientists determined this. And they have nothing to do with "other sources of knowledge" but more to do with other excuses for your religious idiocy.
We keep hearing about these "other sources of knowledge" but none of you have
ever shown what they are, how they work, what useful knowledge can be gained. What we see is that each religionist, each spiritualist, each mystic, soothsayer and transcendentalist has their own personal sense of these "other sources of knowledge" and each is different. Each arrives at different and conflicting Truths
TM. What we see is that these "other sources of knowledge" alway give answers that match the personal emotional desires of the "thinker".
For more than 5000 years you have had every opportunity to show the knowledge, the power, of these other sources and humanity has received
nothing but conflict, blood and war from any of it! The only "knowledge" you people seem to get from these other sources is that the other guy is a heretic and needs to die!
In the last 300 years of empirical science-based sources of knowledge humanity has received real demonstrable benefit from medicine, agriculture, engineering, electronics, communications and a raft of there disciplines. When was the last time you had to go out and hunt down your dinner? I did last night. I drove my car to the supermarket and hunted down some chicken, bread and broccoli. That was after going to my local tribal shaman witch doctor for a renewal of the prescriptions that help keep me from falling down dead. All the above because millions of scientists over centuries hypothesised, tested, observed, experimented and arrived at conclusions based on science.
Not one benefit that humans enjoy today, or forever for that matter, ever came from some priest with a divine revelation from some "other source of knowledge". Your "other sources of knowledge" are not just bogus but dangerous to this species.
Edited by AZPaul3, : cuz