| As a Boy Scout, forty years or so ago, I got a kick out of digging up the fossils of ammonites at summer camp as well as volunteering at a local museum to help excate a mastodon skull. I learned about potassium argon dating and all sorts of interesting stuff. At the time I was active in my local church and nobody was claiming that the palentology that I was having such fun with was in any way contrary my faith.
The earth is, of course, not only 10,000 years old. That is just silly. Clovis man didn't appear on the North American continent until about 12,000 years ago and now we are learning that early man may have arrived on the continent 30,000 years ago. The best estimate for the emergence of early hominid primates is around 3 million years.
Luddite creationists can claim anything they want. Denying the evidence of the world around us just doesn't make sense.
Rick
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis |