Re: Top three reasons for optimism about the ID scam

Kestrel Clayton wrote:

On 01-Dec-24 17:46, RonO wrote:

The last bit of creation science out of the ICR at the turn of the century before the ID scam took over TO was their RATE project.  In their first report of what they had found they concluded that the the theory of radiometric dating was sound, and that the age of the rocks should be able to be dated using those methods.  Their final conclusion for the project was that the rocks were really as young as the Bible claimed they had to be, and that their designer had just made it so that they all had the components to make them look much older than they actually were.  Somehow after the initial creation event that produced rocks that looked billions of years old their god made the lava and ash from volcanic activity to have the components that would make them look much older than they actually were even though current volcanic acivity does not produce ash and lava with the older composition. God-did-it- that-way was their explanation for why the rocks look as old as they do.

 There was a time I wondered why creationists were so untroubled by the theological implications of a liar-god who fabricates evidence against his own existence, so as to send more people into eternal torture.

Once upon a time they did.
Philip Gosse wrote a book attempting to show that G*d had to create the world with appearance of age, and that this appearance, while not true, was also not a lie.
His fellow Christians rejected this idea utterly.  But times have changed.
Mind you, Gosse believed that everyone barring the tiny fraction of the population that belonged to his own sect went to hell - he was quite explicit on this - so believing G*d's lies was not necessary for eternal damnation.
Sorry if that was old news to you.  But at least the typing kept my fingers warm.
William Hyde