@pianoman1 said
Kellyjay, answer me this. Do you respect anyone’s authority apart from your own? You clearly have no respect for scientists and science, you have no respect for eminent theologians and current accepted Christian theology because all world faith leaders now embrace the age of the universe as roughly 14 billion years. Are you a Trumpist narcissist only able to process your own world view? Just asking.....
Of course, but simply because another person tells me something is true it doesn't mean it is. I have a great deal of respect for science, I have a great deal of respect for theology too, but people are flawed, those in and outside of both theology and science. Both are filled with people that can be fooled, be in error, allow themselves to fool themselves wanting something to be true so they overlook how they can be wrong. You dislike that I don't simply take someone's word for something because they have a degree?
You think doctors are flawless? They make judgments that affect people's lives in the here and now, and we can see the results of what they do. Now if they can be wrong in the here and now, exactly why are those who think they know what occurred millions or billions of years ago be given standard of trust that they talk to about things out of sight and out of our time? With doctors we are told to seek other opinions, it’s a good standard to confirm the truth of any diagnosis, don't always trust what your told.
I'm not saying everything said are errors, but they need to be looked at carefully and not just accept what we are told. For example I like Sir Isaac Newton points he brought up, these are not statements of faith on what occurred out of sight and out of our time. That everything will remain in a state of rest unless compelled to change by some force, and then the movement will be proportional to the force impressed upon it, to every action there is an equal reaction to the opposite. To buy into these things is putting faith that the universe is consistent, so with that faith we can justify how we judge, examine, and explain. Without trust and faith in these consistencies in our the universe remain true, what are we relying on?