Originally Posted by LindaLou
I'm all for people questioning what they are taught.
Right...

Your history indicates otherwise.
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What this again seems to boil down to is that creationism claims the vast majority of scientists and the body of scientific knowledge are wrong but can't explain how,{snip}
Can you produce any such claim?


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A person truly questioning {snip again}
A person truly questioning doesn't refuse to look at evidence. Neither do such persons lie and try to change the subject continuously. It's no coincidence that persons truly attempting to give answers avoid these practices as well.

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...might wonder, for instance, why they are being told that the earth is 6000 years old when the half-lives of isotopes that are used to date the earth are measured in millions of years . . . but it's likely that such a person will know nothing about radiometric dating apart from "it's all lies," which is what they would "learn" at a camp like this presumably.
An odd presumption. There's plenty more one could say about evodates. A lot depends on how sophisticated the questioner is, but even simple people can learn the basic flaws behind the assumptions, if they care.

Now there are people who don't care, but I doubt any of them are interested in this topic, rather by definition.
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I also suspect that the theory of evolution will be presented as "dogs giving birth to cats" and "hateful atheist scientists who want everyone to reject the Bible." I can have a little chuckle there at least, imagining all the absurd things these guys will probably come up with.
How willing you are to believe that which you choose to imagine... But then this forum wouldn't exist if people weren't inclined to do exactly that.

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I suppose anyone who is willing to pay for it deserves what they get, even if it's kids who don't know what an igneous rock is but who will tell you that God created it.
If it exists, God created it. Common knowledge. I suppose you'd prefer folks to think everything magically evolved, but I don't see how you can assume any educated reader would prefer it.


Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
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