Thanks Bex,

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And yet, your non explanation of a reply is ironic and your excuse here does nothing to disprove the Christian creationist belief.
Ironic, maybe, but honest too: to say you don't know when you don't know, instead of pretending.

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Yet...you have seemed rather contemptuous of the Christian creationist belief, describing it as the "God did it" explanation....
Are you saying that god did NOT do it? Perhaps I missed something ... no the point is not that creationists believe that god did it, but that when the evidence shows, say that the earth is old, that they play the trump card by claiming that god changed the rules.

You say that the bible is unchanged and that as a fundamentalist you believe it is true, and surprisingly I have very little argument with that.

It is when someone like CTD claims that rules for decay rates have changed, and that is why uranium halos can have formed in a 6kyr +/- existence, that I have trouble: last I checked the bible said nothing about uranium, decay rates, alpha particle energy, the formation of rock crystals, etc. etc. etc.

Perhaps you can enlighten me, and show me that such claims are based on a certain chapter and verse rather than someone's ad hoc fantasy.

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Sadly stating your posts and answers as "truth" time and time again may not produce the desired effect of convincing through repitition....I think you have pulled that trick one too many times.
It is one thing to state something is true, and another to substantiate that claim with evidence. It is the evidence that shows the truth, not the claim. The evidence shows that uranium halos formed over hundreds of millions of years. The evidence shows that the decay rate did not change in that time.

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Regarding the insults? Truth is not an insult. Pretentiousness, arrogance and stating assumptions as truth and other people's beliefs as lame, usually are. In fact, it's not just insulting to me personally, but it's insulting to real science.
I agree, so tell CTD and Russ etc. etc. etc. to stop doing it.

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Now, point out where I have insulted you personally, then I'll understand and apologise.
I don't believe you have, nor do I believe that I have insulted you personally either, but feel free to point out what you feel is such an instance. Perhaps I am a little obtuse on some things, as I can't for the life of me understand what upset ikester so much. Other than being shown wrong (which happens, has happened to me here in fact), it just seemed totally off the wall.

But I also honestly just don't care if you have insulted me or not. I understand that people get emotional, often take things out of context, or are offended when the truth does not suit them. One of the things that is clear to anyone keeping score of all the lists of bad atheists and bad theists etc etc etc is that the behavior of people is independent of their beliefs: some are just vicious people and some are genuine kind hearts. Pretending that one group of people is more immune to being human than another would be akin to "Pretentiousness, arrogance and stating assumptions as truth" wouldn't it?

Perhaps the key is to be less sensitive to apparent insults and more sensitive to the substance.

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I would like to think that my posts towards you have not been "too bad". And up till now, I suspected that our posts with each other have not always been insulting.....even if we totally disagree on matters.
I would agree, and I would like to see others follow your example in that regard.

Enjoy.