To sOOner:
: Just a remark to you on my not having any sense at all.
I didn't say you have no sense. In near disbelief at what you wrote, I asked you if you have any sense.
: I have not jumped from the JW frying pan into the fundamentalism fire.
Then why are you posting nonsense from Fundamentalist publications? That book by Ackerman is absolute trash masquerading as science. Everything in it has been soundly refuted by plenty of people. For example, go to the website http://www.talkorigins.org . You'll find material on every bit of nonsense Ackerman gets into.
The fact that you've actually publicly posted this YEC nonsense without first considering the scientific point of view is strongly suggestive that you have little sense. Surely you can understand why I am horrified that an ex-JW would do this!
: I am open to acquiring knowledge.Making statements concerning my senseability intriques me.It makes me wonder if you have the sense of compassion and wisdom to know the difference.
I've been at this for more than ten years. Sometimes people need a hard whack upside the head to wake them up or get them pointed in the right direction.
Some of the things you wrote indicate that you have no idea what you're talking about. Here are some examples:
: Scientists that always claimed our earth to be billions and billions of years old are now saying that in actuality it is closer to the mark of 6-7,ooo years.This of course is what JW's have always said.Put a tally on there sheet.
Nonsense. No scientist, writing in the name of real science, is saying such a thing. A few people with scientific credentials are writing such things, such as in the publications of the ICR (Institute for Creation Research), but when they do so they're expounding their religious beliefs, not science. The ICR pretends to present science, but their publications contain numerous references to their motives being entirely religious -- to support their religious belief in a literal interpretation of Genesis.
Furthermore, the Watchtower Society has never held that the earth is only 6-7000 years old. They've taught until recently that the creative days of Genesis were 7000 years long, and thus that God's "creative week" began about 48,000 years ago. Since the mid to late 1980s they've backed off from this and will only commit to the creative days being "millenia" long.
The fact that you have not understood the JW position or that of scientists forces me to question how much sense you have. Rather than reading nonsensical YEC writings, you should be looking at solid scientific writings. You'll never get the full truth from the YECs because they're not interested in science, but only in converting people to their beliefs.
AlanF
