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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
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Subject: Re: Is General Goodness just a moral principle? Is paleontology?
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 10:54:20 EDT
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> >> Archeology winds up supporting Biblical accounts.  Cosmology doesn't pose
> >> too many definite answers as to the origins of things (from nothing...BANG...
> >> dream on!!!!)  [HARAZDUK]

WRONG! Cosmology does not say this. All cosmology seems to imply is that at 
some earlier time the universe was very much smaller than it is now. It
is observed to expand, hence the "bang". Cosmology does not have anything
to say yet on what happened before the bang. It is incorrect to deduce that
it claims there was nothing before the explosion.

>... because I'd have to show Carbon 14 dating to be
> inaccurate and I can't do that.  Besides, I'm expecting Carbon 14 dating to
> be crucial to the Shroud of Turin investigation.

This is fascinating; The willingness to accept c14 dating
when it serves your purpose, while not being prepared to accept it fully in
the case of determining an old earth.

Padraig Houlahan.