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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oh yes. You absolutely don't have to believe that the earth is billions of years old to understand geology. You just have to assume that it looks like it is, while doing geology. That's completely compatible with believing that it really is just 8,000 years old.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

If that's a steelman then it's definitely at forging temperature (which jet fuel btw can achieve easily), collapsing under its own weight.

Try this: Is it consistent to believe that evolution is the means by which God created, and continues to create, creatures? Does "well evolution just happens" have more, less, or equally much of an argument for itself? Note: Blindly assuming naturalism instead of God's will doesn't count because neither of those are falsifiable.

Thing is: There's more than one way to connect the data points into an overall theory. Those theories try to explain the data points by starting from made-up axioms, and naturalism is just as much made-up as the Spaghetti monster. Unless you want to posit some kind of Platonism?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

If that’s a steelman then it’s definitely at forging temperature (which jet fuel btw can achieve easily), collapsing under its own weight.

I don't understand. I simply agreed with the previous poster. Do you disagree with anything I wrote?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

So that wasn't sarcasm? Interesting. Possible instance of backwards causation, the physicists will be ecstatic.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

So that wasn’t sarcasm?

Not quite sarcasm, not quite reductio ad absurdum. It's just a reminder of certain psychological realities.

Possible instance of backwards causation

Don't see how you get that.

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