QUESTION Oldest human fossils discovered in Morocco - Axios
In 2017, Scientists found the oldest human fossils ever discovered. These artifacts place our human ancestors at more than 300,000 years ago.
This certainly outdoes the Bible's version of events as 4,000 years ago, when God "created" man.
What will it take for religious people to start believing in Science instead of the writings by a group of people that didn't know what they were talking about?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.They might need deprogramming. It's emotion, not logic.
Or-Humanist
Level 7
Jan 11, 2018
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More for me to look into and feed my brain with knowledge.
EmeraldJewel
Level 7
Jan 9, 2018
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Watch the Bill Nye & Ken Ham debate on Creationism vs Evolution and you'll see what you're up against.
Gener
Level 5
Dec 29, 2017
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Specifically, in the debate, you would see that Ken Hamm is a young-earth-creationist and biblical literalist. In support (or as a result) of this, he states that the laws of physics were different in the time of the old testament than in the new testament. Bill Nye (who, frankly, isn't the best choice to defend a theory in biology, although it didn't take too advanced knowledge of biology to defend in in this forum) would make arguments, and then Hamm would state that Nye was using modern day science, and was forgetting that the laws were different in the time of the old testament. The debate basically never got started, because could not agree on a foundation upon which their arguments were built. It was maddeningly frustrating to watch.
@Gener Wow! That sounds painful! You can't fix stupid.
There are many religious people (not just christians) that are not young earth creationists and believe the earth is much older and believe in evolution and most of the science behind it.
Unfortunately, there are some zealots out there who believe so strongly in the literal translations of their holy books that short of divine revelation, nothing will shake their faith in the book.
Uncorrugated
Level 7
Dec 29, 2017
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if the pope starts believing in science.
sassygirl3869
Level 9
Dec 29, 2017
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There is competition between the major religions and if the pope did acknowledge the science then you can be sure there will be a discovery of new documents and or translations that will explain the discrepancies.
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