Is there a Young Earth Society? Maybe I’ll join that one (along with The Flat Earth Society) and send both certificates to Patrick to be hung at SPOC. I’m becoming more and more enamored of Nick Bostrom’s simulator theory. Things are just too weird on this planet for any of it to be “real”. Why was I sent here? Dave On Mar 9, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Brent Watson wrote:
Have you seen this happen? For that matter, has anyone seen the young earth happen. None of this, young nor old is substantiated by actual observation. That is what creates interest and fun. After all, everything we think we know in the universe only comes from our observation of very narrow slivers of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Of course, it all fits together as far as we know right now. I am left to wonder what will happen with additional knowledge that will come in the future. How will our perspective of the universe change? Science is only a glimpse of what we think we know at any one time.
We are left to accept on faith either the young earth or the old earth. Just different sources.
There, Kim, I took your bait!
________________________________ From: Kim <kimharch@cut.net> To: 'Utah Astronomy' <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Fw: Tyson on starstuff
I consider this fact (i.e. that we're made of star stuff) as one of a number of key evidences for an ancient earth/ancient universe and I share it when I talk to people at astronomy programs.
I know that we have some on this list who believe in a young earth, and I truly don't mean any disrespect here, but perhaps they would be interested in commenting on how the creation of heavy elements in the cores of stars and the fact that generations of stars were necessary to our evolution fits with that perspective. Anyone?
Kim
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