Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!padraig From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Is General Goodness just a moral principle? Is paleontology? Message-ID: <560@utastro.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 10:54:20 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.560 Posted: Thu Aug 15 10:54:20 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 07:27:13 EDT References: <852@umcp-cs.UUCP> <360@utastro.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX Lines: 19 > >> 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.