Has evolutionism become a leading religion?

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by Jason Badejo

Article on Carbon dating (I haven't read yet, but am about to), perhaps Pel will post a short rebuttal

http://www.answersingenesis.org/arti...rove-the-bible

The article includes this quote:
When a scientist’s interpretation of data does not match the clear meaning of the text in the Bible, we should never reinterpret the Bible. God knows just what He meant to say, and His understanding of science is infallible, whereas ours is fallible. So we should never think it necessary to modify His Word. Genesis 1 defines the days of creation to be literal days (a number with the word “day” always means a normal day in the Old Testament, and the phrase “evening and morning” further defines the days as literal days). Since the Bible is the inspired Word of God, we should examine the validity of the standard interpretation of 14C dating by asking several questions:

Just sayin' its not as if Coadie and myself are on an island. And even if we were God's word is not defined by popular opinion, else we'd all be trinitarians.

Also:
"Dr. Willard Libby, the founder of the carbon-14 dating method, assumed this ratio to be constant. His reasoning was based on a belief in evolution, which assumes the earth must be billions of years old. Assumptions in the scientific community are extremely important. If the starting assumption is false, all the calculations based on that assumption might be correct but still give a wrong conclusion."

Now Jason. You say that a number with the word "day" always means a literal day in the old testament. How can we know that is true. Even if it is true in every other example then how can we know that Genesis 1 isn't the 1 example we have where a number with the word "day" means a figurative day. The problem with your biblical interpretation is you are trying to extrapolate the meaning of a number with the word "day" from other scriptures. Extrapolation is the same problem you have with radiometric dating. I say that if you will not let scientists extrapolate then you shouldn't extrapolate either, especially when it comes to scripture.