Answers to Creation and Evolution 1

I take it from your response that you aren't satisfied with the facility of using evidence to establish whether or not something is true or false. If I can't use evidence to establish the truth or falsehood of claims, how am I supposed to determine if they are believable or not?

Yes, I agree that I might interpret evidence differently than you. You would throw out evidential inquiry, in favor of what? If you reject evidential inquiry as to the truth or falsehood of a claim, what if any basis is there to verify the truth or falsehood of anything?

If you reject the validity of evidential inquiry based on the concept that differing worldview cause 2 different people to draw different conclusions from the same evidence, then I don't really know how to proceed. I don't reject it. I depend on it.

If there were evidence that supported a hypothesis that the earth is only 9,000 years old(Young Earth Creationism), and in doing so it invalidated an evolutionary theory, I'd be happy to accept that as the truth. If there were evidence that supported a hypothesis that a much older earth than that was created by a god(Old Earth Creationism), and in doing so invalidated evolutionary theory, I'd not hesitate to accept it. I am not aware of any such evidence. But I'm aware of evidence that supports a universe very old, and that supports the idea that a planet came about in the course of its development that we call Earth, and that live slowly developed and evolved on that planet over a vast scale of time.

But your blog entry seemed to argue that the evidence doesn't matter, so I guess we'll just have to hold our different opinions on that until or unless one of us sees reason to change, and I'm fine with that.