HEWG writes:
If geologists ran into something supernatural they would use ways to naturally explain it, or they would deny it. You think these scientists are objective truth telling machines who are massively equipped with the highest state of morals and ethics. If they ain't getting no grant money fo' day work cuz uncle bob thinks Godidit, well hell, theys goin' ta find nother way of splainin' things.
You have a very parochial view of the world. A lot, perhaps most, of the geology that knocked out your Young Earth view was done by (mostly Christian) amateurs in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They
paid in time and money to find out things, rather than being paid.
There was a huge burst of enthusiasm for geology and the earth sciences in general in the early nineteenth century, and some of the leading figures involved were clergymen.
They wanted to find out truths about their God's creation, not to perpetuate myths, as you're doing.
200 years ago, HEWG, there were loads of people with a more sophisticated and advanced view of the world and the universe than the one you seem determined to cling to today.
It's 2007, not 1807. You're in a time warp. When are you going to start catching up?
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