Hey Jeanie,
I wonder if someone has ever lined up the things presented in this video against whatever it is evolution thinks... Is this accurate?
The problem here is that you are dealing with two (2) evolutions.
One is the science of evolution, that studies the diversity of life as we know it. This evolution "thinks" that hereditary traits change in populations from generation to generation.
The other "evolution" is a false straw man created by religious fanatics that pretends it is a social program in opposition to christianity. Notice that Russ's quote refers to
atheism and the word "evolution" is not mentioned in the quote at all. Not further that the people are referred to as "evolutionists" and that this is the only (tenuous) link they can make. This is part of the straw man system: call someone an evolutionist and then discuss other aspects of the person that have nothing at all to do with evolution (or even science).
Note further that it uses the logical fallacy of the "appeal to authority" so that by calling these people evolutionists that implies that evolution is responsible for what they believe, and because they are "authorities" that this is implied to apply to evolution. As LindaLou pointed out, what people believe is not caused by evolution or influenced by it -- there are christian people that accept the
science of evolution. There is in fact
a whole association of christian scientists, so the implied link between evolution and atheism and as a social program in opposition to christianity is obviously a falsehood.
Anyway...this is good. I wish that guy wouldn't chew gum, though.
So he needs to evolve eh?
I have a tape somewhere buried from when I homeschooled which gets into the sedimentation issues and flaws with carbon dating.
Please see the
"A Well Aged Earth" thread. Perhaps you can offer something more than SoSick's incredulity and silly diversions.
I will note that the
Carbon-14 ages correlates with the tree ring ages and climate changes, and suggest that that be your starting point. Note that climate is also recorded in the tree rings by the ring widths, so when the carbon-14 varies in accordance with those climate changes (being subject to climate variations) AND with the age recorded by the rings you have a two-fold correlation.
I have bumped the other thread for your use to discuss this further.
Enjoy.
