Science - facts are evident: reject Cretionism

Echo opinion letter published in the Michigan newspaper The Mining Journal by Bryan Hill, from Skandia.

Misguided individuals would have me believe in the hoaxes perpetrated by Bible Fundamentalists who believe that Noah actually existed as the lucky survivor of a flood.

Science is no hoax!

My opinion: Creationists who believe in a literal interpretation of the Old Testament in the Bible, are ignorant. Albert Einstein wrote in his famous God Letter:  "The Bible is a ‘a collection of primitive legends’". Although I can understand Einstein's point of view, I don't necessarily believe the entire Bible is a collection of legends.  Nevertheless, I believe most of the Old Testament Bible are oral histories, documented by many translations.)

If so, it was sinful of Noah to hypothesize that all the drowned humans were not redeemable sinners. (Old Testament interpretation.)

But I agree, the Biblical begats going back 6400 years only supports a hypothesis that this is when Jewish tribes began writing stuff down.

Since the development of oceans and atmosphere, millions of years ago, there undoubtedly have been innumerable floods throughout earth’s history. It is plate tectonics and orogeny* that have uplifted and pushed marine sediments and fossils up thousands of feet above sea level, not floods.

Although the occurrence of extremely large prehistoric floods, such as the ones creating the Channelled Scablands of eastern Washington, have been identified and scientifically proven, not one true scientist has proven the existence of a world-wide flood.

Scientists do not have, nor may never have all the answers, but at least they keep trying to find them instead of resorting to unquestionably false stories told in the Bible.

All scientific hypotheses and theories are testable by experimentation, are open for review, questioning, retesting, reinterpretation, given new relevant findings.

Scientific theories result from thorough testing of testable hypotheses. Except human errors that have not yet been discovered and corrected, scientific facts as we currently know them are true, whether or not you want to believe them.

(In other words, people are entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts.)

Assuming God created all matter, this includes radioactive isotopes which decay at a predictable rate and prove the Earth is over 4.5 billion years old.

The rate of geological events and change ranges from the nearly instantaneous (big bang) to the moderate rate of evolution to the agonizingly slow radioactive decay of certain isotopes.

There is not one thing that is scientifically true nor testable about James Ussher’s contention that the Earth is about 6,400 years old.

(MaineWriter- It's a ludicrous point of view for anyone to believe the ridiculous claim that the earth is only 6,400 years old....utterly ignorant!)

By the way, today the crust of the earth is an open rift at the divergent tectonic plate boundaries at mid-ocean ridges. Yet, the water does not drain away from the currently flooded ocean basins.

Makes me wonder how Noah’s worldwide flood could have drained away. I’m feeling giddyish about a potential scientific hypothesis about this!

I am proud to be an evolutionary decedent of a common ancestor of apes, and not a descent of Noah’s (Biblical) inbred, extremely limited gene pool. 

I am served by the scientific method.  From Bryan Hill, Skandia

*Process in which a section of the earth's crust is folded and deformed by lateral compression to form a mountain range.