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→Comment: On assumptions, observation, and denigration.
:::In other words where do you draw the line. At what point do you realize that the explanations refuting these theories are wastes of time and are only there for the benefit of a tiny tiny minority of people who don't understand/don't want to understand/will never understand why the majority has reached another conclusion? [[User:Everwill|Everwill]] 11:05, 2 April 2008 (EDT)
:::In other words where do you draw the line. At what point do you realize that the explanations refuting these theories are wastes of time and are only there for the benefit of a tiny tiny minority of people who don't understand/don't want to understand/will never understand why the majority has reached another conclusion? [[User:Everwill|Everwill]] 11:05, 2 April 2008 (EDT)
:::: Yes, much of life is based on assumptions. That's no reason to disregard those questioning those assumptions and just argue that assumptions need not be questioned. And neither is it intellectually honest to argue that something that is based on disputed ''assumptions'' is ''proved''.
:::: If the geologists' assumptions are worldview-based, then I have as much right to question them as anyone else. Besides, there are ''geologists'' who question those assumptions also. Geologists are trained in ''geology'', not ''worldviews''.
:::: The shape of the Earth and the composition of the moon can be ''observed''; the age of the Earth ''cannot''.
:::: You draw the line at teaching the ''evidence'', both for and against. And denigrating people who disagree with you is not a good argument. Many of those who believe in a young Earth ''do'' understand ''why'' others reached another conclusion, because ''they themselves'' used to hold to that other view themselves, but have been convinced otherwise, often ''by the evidence''.
:::: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 05:31, 3 April 2008 (EDT)