I just have to set the record straight about a few of Jill's comments.
According to the bible, man has only existed for 6000 years.
The Bible does not say this. This is a common misunderstanding that originates from not understanding the time difference between the first and second sentences in the Bible.
Dinosaurs were around 100,000,000 years ago
Bacteria were around one billion years ago
Do you not believe in scientific dating of fossils and if not ,why not?
These misconceptions are not even accepted by honest evolutionists anymore. I adjure you to see out a broader range of information than the talkorigins website.
Evolution is a complcated subject
I don't disbelieve evolution because I'm a Christian. I disbelieve it because it's absolutely ridiculous, and I mean that in all honestly and without sarcasm. There is no idea I've encountered in my life that is as absurd as evolution. Think symmetry, reproduction, protein folding, DNA origins, etc., etc.
I would gladly accept evolution as a viable alternative it if there was any real evidence supporting it, however, if you give this subject an intellectually honest evaluation, you will find that the evolution myth is being promoted only because it is a great source of revenue for those funding it's promotion.
The reason evolution is complicated is because it has to be that way to induce the human emotions merit throwing common sense and true science out the window. Complication of the facts also makes it more appealing to the human sense of price.
Complicating the subject is a common debate tactic, and in the context of evolution, it is nothing more.I'll write more on this at another time. You can also visit the Evolution/Creation forum for more information.
I'm sorry to say that the education system has fed you a bunch of lies and misinformation just as it continues to educate new dentists with the false idea that mercury from amalgam fillings is harmless. Like doctors and dentists, you are being used as an intellectually as a distributor of false information by those who profit from your sense of pride. Yes,
you have been purchased by people who know you better then you know yourself. There is a reason I constantly tell people to know themselves.
Jill, you have to realize that just because something is in a text book does not mean that it's true. If you put your research skills to work, you will uncover the fact that textbooks are full of junk science, lies, opinions and are largely funded by corporations that profit from the people's faith in the evolution myth.
If you are a truly intellectually honest person, you will accept when I challenge you to watch this video which will be a good starting point to reintroducing real science into your corporately-funded textbook propaganda.
In the following video, Hovind will plainly show you the lies that are in existence throughout the educational system. I have seen his work and I consider his information flawless except that he does believe in a 6000 year old earth. Other than this, the information he presents is outstanding.
I challenge you to watch the video all the way through.
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"I deplore... the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief... This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit."—Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 1814. ME 14:46
"Our printers raven on the agonies of their victims, as wolves do on the blood of the lamb."—Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1811. ME 13:59
"From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice."—Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1816. ME 14:430
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day."—Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:224
"As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers."—Thomas Jefferson to Barnabas Bidwell, 1806. ME 11:118
"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."—Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1819. ME 15:179
"The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."—Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807.