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:::''The Roman Catholic Church - the largest branch of Christianity - says there are a total of 1.156 billion baptized members around the globe.'' --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|şyŝoρ-₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Ṣρёаќǃ]]</font></sup> 19:05, 23 November 2007 (EST)
:::''The Roman Catholic Church - the largest branch of Christianity - says there are a total of 1.156 billion baptized members around the globe.'' --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|şyŝoρ-₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Ṣρёаќǃ]]</font></sup> 19:05, 23 November 2007 (EST)
:::: I guess that might ''just'' qualify as "billions" (plural), but that still leaves my other points unanswered. [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 19:11, 23 November 2007 (EST)
*Conversely, Philip, a ''minority'' believing something is right, like a 6,000 year old Earth, does not make it "right" either. Nor should the beliefs of that minority be constantly presented as "the truth", the only truth, because it is insulting to others. --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|şyŝoρ-₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Ṣρёаќǃ]]</font></sup> 19:02, 23 November 2007 (EST)
*Conversely, Philip, a ''minority'' believing something is right, like a 6,000 year old Earth, does not make it "right" either. Nor should the beliefs of that minority be constantly presented as "the truth", the only truth, because it is insulting to others. --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|şyŝoρ-₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|/Ṣρёаќǃ]]</font></sup> 19:02, 23 November 2007 (EST)
:: True (your first sentence), but YECs are not claiming it to be true ''because of majority opinion'', like you claimed for an old Earth, so that is irrelevant.
:: There is nothing wrong with presenting the beliefs of the minority as true ''if they are true'', and you are concentrating on arguments of popularity rather than addressing the points that I raised.
:: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 19:11, 23 November 2007 (EST)
:: TK, out of 1 billion Catholics worldwide, I'd be surprised if 1% of them believe the Earth is more than 1 billion years old as taught by the [[atheists]]. But I will say this: more than 50% of educated ex-Catholics (and ex-Christians) lost their [[faith]] because they were indoctrinated with [[atheistic]] dogma in school. Promoting an old earth view is perhaps the single most effective way of enticing a teenager to lose their [[faith]].--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 19:09, 23 November 2007 (EST)
:: TK, out of 1 billion Catholics worldwide, I'd be surprised if 1% of them believe the Earth is more than 1 billion years old as taught by the [[atheists]]. But I will say this: more than 50% of educated ex-Catholics (and ex-Christians) lost their [[faith]] because they were indoctrinated with [[atheistic]] dogma in school. Promoting an old earth view is perhaps the single most effective way of enticing a teenager to lose their [[faith]].--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 19:09, 23 November 2007 (EST)