CONCLUSION BEFORE PREMISE
I made another questionable decision of offering a summary
treatise in defense of all the scientific disciplines that support the finding
that the earth is billions of years old. This is perhaps a less than ideal way
to go about the matter. I could have simply offered the basic foundations of a
number of scientific disciplines that support a young earth, referenced
supporting studies, and briefly stated the conclusions of those findings. All
of that could have been done in a fraction of the time that I spent elaborating
on the sciences, but I was falsely under the impression that people were more
likely to accept a principle if you took the time to explain it to them. I was
wrong. People will either accept facts, or they will not.
Instead, I will now simply say that several fields of
scientific study are founded on the principle that the earth is billions of
years old and that no evidence has ever brought any of these foundations into
question. According to experts in the scientific community, the age of the
earth is in no more question than the basic shape of it. The percentage of
today’s scientists who believe that the earth is only a few thousand years old
is less than 1, a distribution yielded almost certainly because the dwarfed
minority holds their position out of dogmatic desperation. I often wonder if any questioned premise in any scientific discipline is in less dispute
than the age of the earth.
These self-proclaimed scientists in the
minority are determined to make all evidence fit with a young earth while
ignoring the completely overwhelming juggernaut of counterevidence working
against their predetermined conclusions. Such research methods are very
unscientific and blatantly dishonest because a true scientist does not start out to prove something one way
or another. Such researchers should always remain impartial and undecided
before considering all of the
available evidence to make a rational and logical decision that is independent of their hopes and beliefs.
Instead, they surround themselves with so-called scientific evidence and call
evolution a religion because they understand that science is the driving force
in our education system. [i] Confirmation
bias has no place in progressive scientific discovery.