Is science a religion?

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>There is no evidence for the creation model and much worse, it's wrong. The creation model postulates that the earth is 10,000 years old, when it is demonsterably older.<

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Ok. show evidence that creation didn't happen and that the earth is older than 6,000 years.

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You really need to start reading the posts you respond to, that very paragraph has several points of evidence. Here are more:At the mid-ocean ridges, the magnetic polarity of the rocks periodically alternate. This pattern occurs symmetrically at both sides of the ridge. This was caused by the polarity of the earth at the time that these volcanically formed rocks cooled and locked the magnetic minerals in the rock into place. For the earth to be less than 10,000 years old, the magnetic pole of the earth would reverse itself every few years, which it obviously doesn't.I haven't even adressed radiometric dating yet. A really good piece of evidence in favor of radiometric dating is consistency. If the dating method is flawed why don't human fossils date anywhere between 20 years and 20 billion years? The cited examples of obvious mistakes in dating are probably methodological errors or contaminated samples. Methodological errors and contaminated samples can give false DNA results, that doesn't mean DNA is an invalid means of establishing relatedness or identification.
There is a geologic layer that occurs globally that has an unusually high amount of iridium, which comes from space objects like asteroids and meteors. No dinosaurs are found above this layer anywhere in the world. Everywhere in the world this layer dates approximately 65 million years. That's why scientists think an asteroid killed or finished off the dinosaurs. That's consistency!!!

That is not the issue of this thread. As a regular poster I have pointed that out to you several times. The Queen has pointed it out to you. AdminNosy has pointed that out to you. Do not continue trying to draw this off topic.

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>Now let's get back to the topic "Is science a religion?"Ok. Thanks. I clicked the peek mode and copy pasted...but it still didn't work....the answer to the topic was no, "real" science is not a religion. My point was that evolutionists who are scientists are "religious" scientists.This was the point I originally made by stating certain facts that I put down as evidences that they ignore in order to "believe", religiously the myth of evolution.This was my point. I thought I stayed within the topic at hand. I think it was a few other posters that took my point and began to change the topic.

Over in the "Great breadths of time" thread JonF had this to say: EvC Forum: The great breadths of time.Why? Why would science be doomed to ignore magic if it really existed? If magic worked through means outside the nautral world, science might not be able to study those means, but if magic left behind artifacts sufficient to prove that magic was in fact at work, why couldn't science study at least that much of it?

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AdminNosy: This thread is about the approach and definitions of what is and is not science. The details concerning dating and geology should be taken to the appropriate forums. Further off topic posts will result in a suspension for whomever commits them.>At the mid-ocean ridges, the magnetic polarity of the rocks periodically alternate. This pattern occurs symmetrically at both sides of the ridge. This was caused by the polarity of the earth at the time that these volcanically formed rocks cooled and locked the magnetic minerals in the rock into place. For the earth to be less than 10,000 years old, the magnetic pole of the earth would reverse itself every few years, which it obviously doesn't.<Are you kidding me??? The mid oceanic ridges were obviously formed at the historic world wide flood which happened some 4-5 thousand years ago when the subterranean waters broke through and flooded the world breaking open the continental plates and forming the continents we have today, the fossil record, the Grand Canyon, and the sea skeletons we find on land on top of mountains and so forth.Furthermore, the fossils of animals still in the midst of giving birth and fossils of animals with prey still in the mouth or stomach show that it was "rapid" burial, and world wide. Then, DNA and red blood cells still found in dinosaur bones.>I haven't even adressed radiometric dating yet<Don't worry, I already have. Radiometric dating does not work for anything that is older than 4-5 thousand years for starters...secondly, C14 only can be used to date former "living" things...thirdly, tests were already made to embarrass those who use other radiometric dating methods on rocks and so forth and showed that they don't work.-You can not "know" how much of the radioactive or daughter substance was present at the start.-Simple things such as groundwater movement can carry radioactive material or the daughter element into or out of rock-Again, you can not know the decay rate before the world wide flood which took place some 4-5 thousand years agoHelen's volcanoe eruptions:We know "historically" when it erupted. So scientists testing the method showed that the radiometric methods were off by BILLIONS of years! Helen erupted in the 18 and 1900 hundreds- laughable even.Evolutionists have to "ignore" history in order to believe this fantasy, and "assume" evolution.Evolution isn't science, it's science-fiction. Big difference.Edited by AdminNosy, : To stop off topic digressions.

>Actually there is so much evidence, much of it mutually supportive I urge you to go find it.<See post 290.

subbie asks: If magic left behind artifacts sufficient to prove that magic was in fact at work, then science would likely study it. In fact, that happens quite often, James Randi has made a very good living off it.What has been seen so far though is that every time magic has been claimed and the incident studyied, the results have turned out to be non-supernatural. If you come to something that cannot be explained, then the answer is "I don't know what caused it", not "God caused it".

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Please take your comments about geology, dating etc. to the appropriate threads. Do not continue off topic here.

I was only replying to the post that asked me the question? I feel you are picking on me AdminNosv.Why haven't you commented to the poster who questioned me and I replied to?I would love to stay on topic. But when some other member asked me a question I replied.Why don't you state to him that he is off topic? Or just move this topic to the proper thread?

I will help everyone stay on topic here. We are close enough to the 300 post limit that I'm just going to close this thread now.Yes, MrEd, others are guilty also, but you specifically have been asked to not make off topic posts. Using the claim "he did it too" doesn't cut it.

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