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Talk:Counterexamples to an Old Earth (view source)
Revision as of 16:07, July 29, 2011
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:If you would like to provide a perspective on this issue, please give your right name (and then you can be a source), or quote a reliable source. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 12:23, 29 June 2011 (EDT)
:If you would like to provide a perspective on this issue, please give your right name (and then you can be a source), or quote a reliable source. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 12:23, 29 June 2011 (EDT)
== I have big issues with this article ==
Ok seriously. Is anyone proud of this article? I'm an atheist, but before you discredit me, please hear me out. I'm going to try to do my best to explain my problems with this article. It is full of logical fallacies and it's written with very little understanding of what the issues are. First, when it talks about the probability that the earth is young at about 96%, it does so using a complete misapplication of statistics.
Also, it states that "no counterexamples have been found for young earth", even if accepted as true, it says nothing about whether the claim of a young earth is true. The fact that nothing can be found to disprove a young earth doesn't mean that our claim that the earth is young is true. It is still up to those making the young earth claim, as those making a positive claim, to provide evidence that demonstrates that the earth is young. Just because I make claim X, and you are unable to disprove that claim, doesn't prove claim X to be true.
Finally, the article talks about "atheist". To be honest, I don't see how this is true. There are many people who do believe in a god who believe that the old earth theory. "Atheism" is just one position to a single argument... whether a god exists or not. Anything that deals outside of whether a god exists is outside of what "atheism" is. There are many Christians who believe the old earth theory. If there was a person who doesn't believe in a god, who believes the young earth theory... that person will still be considered an atheist (since that person doesn't believe in a god). Thus, I feel that the discussion of atheism in this article is wrong, since atheism makes no claim either way on whether the earth is old or young.
What do you guys think? [[User:Loro1rojo|Loro1rojo]] 12:07, 29 July 2011 (EDT)