dwise writes:
But we're not talking about "fulfilled prophecy", the very existence of which is in question.
I mentioned fulfiled prophecy
relative to history because this is one of the corroborating evidences Biblicalists use to argue for an intelligent designer supportive to the Biblical model.
Note that along with that I cited archeology. Natural securalistic scientists refuse to acknowledge or to falsify important discoveries and research sites which creationists like Dr Lennart Moller have done such as the Nuweiba crossing site relative to the Biblical model.
dwise writes:
We're talking about studying the natural universe and, more specifically, determining the ages of that natural natural and structures in it, including our planet.
I agree but our model includes such physical phenomena as I have cited above.
Furthermore, the question much more specifically was whether science or creationism does a better job of arriving at these dates. Even more specifically, the question you involved yourself into was why is it that the many independent scientific tests are in agreement with each other, whereas practically none of creationism's result are even remotely in agreement with each other.
As I've argued time and again, the Biblical model implies pre-flood conditions which should render modern dating methodology inaccurate. Thus if we don't know what the properties of the atmosphere were before the flood, how can we test for acurate dating? We can't so we come up with varied date hypotheses. We use what corroborating evidence we can assemble and build our hypothesis on those.
Now, it is indeed a very good idea, especially in engineering, to team together people from different disciplines, which enables the team to think outside the box during brainstorming. However, creationism would have nothing to offer and ID much less.
We believe we do have something to offer but the majority has the bully pulpit in education, the media and the mainstream science arena.
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