Doc_T said:

Wow. No, math is almost entirely content-free. Mental masturbation at it's finest.

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OrgoneConclusion said:

It is near-impossible to overcome early programming like that. It is like communicating with a tape recorder.

Dear Niece,

Everything your Mom and Dad believe is total nonsense. If they were to hold such beliefs outside of an accepted religion they would be deemed delusional at best and mentally ill at worst.

Love,

Uncle OC

To answer your question more directly, yes I did and very gently by asking simple, direct questions, much like I do here, but without the attitude. Much like here, getting a direct responses to a simple yes/no question is an amazingly difficult task.

I believe the respondent's logic must be functioning on some subconscious level, else why the avoidance?

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I know what you mean.  When I babysat a seven year old kid who lived down the street with extremely hardcore Fundamentalist parents I occasionally tried to get him to see at least ONE contradiction with his beliefs.  When it got to the point when he said dinosaur bones were put on the Earth to test our faith I simply gave up. 

deCypher said:

When it got to the point when he said dinosaur bones were put on the Earth to test our faith I simply gave up. 

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Don't you mean Jesus Horses?

I've used the speed of light several time to stump people who tell me the earth is 7000 years old or whatever.

If we know how fast light travels...and we know how far away the stars are...and we can see them...

After silence I usually here something like "Well maybe the universe was complete and God made the Earth later."  or God made the whole thing at once and backdated the light speeding across the cosmos.  Or something like that.

To this I usually reply if we're going down that road then maybe God made the universe this morning and your life is just an implanted memory.

Then they go-
 

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I've used the speed of light several time to stump people who tell me the earth is 7000 years old or whatever.

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OrgoneConclusion said:

Still makes no sense. I was born a half century ago, so I am unable to see stars farther than 50 light years away?

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They also believe the stars are less than 7000 years old.

DieCommie said:

Furthermore, the universe is 13 billion years old and we see light coming from a star over 13 billion years away.

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Samurai Drifter said:

If the Earth is only 7000 years old, then light from the stars that are further than 7000 light-years away should not be reaching us.

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OrgoneConclusion said:

That makes no sense.

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OrgoneConclusion said:

and graduated near the top of her class. She was shocked to find that those four years of 'studying' fantasy opened no employment doors for her except to brainwash the next generation of soldiers for Christ - preferably at her church or at the same college.

Now she must start all over and go to nursing school (aka science) to get a 'real' job.

Bible college is like getting a degree in Star Warsology.

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OrgoneConclusion said:

I don't care about 'they'. You asked if I understood math as if I was incapable of doing the calculations. Are you now admitting you made a boo boo?

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Yes. I should have specified that it wasn't just the Earth that's supposedly 7,000 years old, but everything.