Hey maybe if you actually researched Carbon Dating you would realize how inaccurate it really is. Even if they say it uses comparisons they aren't taking in the effect of different variables on it.

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Scientists have never uttered these words because they have never thought of concise accurate descriptions. What incorrect conclusions are you referring to? There are no incorrect conclusions.

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and they did...

Did you also know that scientists can, you know, take those variables into consideration? A scientist is not going to use the same estimate for a rock that came out of a volcano as a rock that was formed in a riverbed, when he uses carbon dating.

Either way, carbon dating isn't SUPPOSED to be "perfectly accurate" when going back billions of years. However, it's good for much longer than the Bible says the Earth has been around.

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That is an awful statement. Look at Figure 5 in The Quran on Human Embryonic Development. Are you really going to tell me that describing the fetus at that stage as a "chewed substance" resembling "a piece of gum" is accurate and scientific? If so, don't bother replying because I will ignore you.

The conclusions that Muhammad correctly predicted things like human embryonic development and the geology of mountains are incorrect and, frankly, ridiculous.

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Just wanted to say that this is probably the most nonbiased and intelligent thread in the debate forum. Thanks Colostomizer, this is a great source of information supporting Agnosticism.

My two cents: All religions aside, if there is a God, all I can hope is that he judges you based on your character, and how you lived your life, not what you were led to believe.

Thank you very much.

It seems to me that if there is a God, and if he makes it his business to judge people, he would judge you based on your character. If God were to judge people based on their faith in him (faith meaning belief without evidence), he would be completely irrational in my opinion, and I severely doubt that such an irrational God would rule the universe.

This discussion has become really off-topic, though. This is what I want people thinking about-I am still waiting for a response to this.

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You know, I was thinking this a while back. What makes me believe that the Christian God is God, and what makes me think that the Muslim God, is not God? I think, that they are the same God, along with the Jewish God. I think now, that these three religions honor the same God, just in different ways. There is no doubt in my mind that there is not a God, and I know for a fact in my heart, that when I was walking the walk, that he is out there.

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Show where you are getting your information on carbon dating. I Guaruntee it is from a religious site.

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Faith cannot be measured in absolutes, nor is it better or worse. It is considered to be different however.
For example: When you get into a car for the first time, you put your faith into the fact that the airbag wont randomly disperse, and with the way some people drive, they have a lot of faith!!

All I'm saying is that no faith is better than someone else's. I've chosen to put my faith in Jesus Christ because of the immense suffering he went through, for me.

Perhaps you meant the following, "Why is your religion better than that of someone else of a different religion?"

I do have an answer for that as well. Some people around the world try living as though tolerant toward other religions, that we should all just try to get along. The fact of the matter is that there are many religions in the world that have exceptionally radical beliefs, including Christianity. Putting your faith in a God who became incarnate and rose from the dead seems rather radical, wouldn't you think?

Now you are probably wondering why I didn't answer the question I myself posed above. If you read that paragraph above on more time, you will see why I believe Christianity is better than any other.

By no means am I arrogant about my faith in anyway. I don't personally go out of my way to throw something back into someones face regarding the differences in religion.

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Well you practically are saying that all religions are the same and they are not. Why because of the Bible. I know some passages are hard to believe but you gotta understand that it has it flaws. Religion has been corrupted by the greed of man and has been distorted in such a way to benefit those in power. But nevertheless the Bible is one of the most accurate history tools mankind has and I do believe all the passages about Jesus Christ are true.

Why should I believe in the Bible? Well why should you believe in evolution or thermodynamics? Because you read it in a book? Because it it's a fact? Well what is a fact? All those theorems and thoeries were proven out of assumptions and constants that can't be explained or proven, we just know they exist.

We all have become cynics in this world, we truly think we have it all figured out, but the more you learn (yeah thats right) the more you learn that you don't know sh.t. Only ignorant people think they have this world and life figured out.

For me Jesus Christ was real because he made sense. All that he spoke of I know is true cause it's what feels right. All this concern about wealth and material possesions don't make sense to me. It doesn't feel right that people stuff their faces with food day in and day out when there is people starving all around the world. Our society and way of life doesn't make sense and we have become assimilated to it and accepted it and we have become cynics.

You will become wiser with age Colostomizer and I know for a fact your views will change. I'm not saying that you will become catholic or jewish, just that many beliefs you have today will eventually change because of things you learn and experience, so be open to ideas.

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