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Does anyone actually believe this

Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:30 pm
Posted by wilkesboothjohn
Member since Jul 2014
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Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:30 pm
So im a scout master in my local troop and I was doing this thing called philmont which is where you go hiking in the New Mexican mountains. One day we were hiking back down a mountain and one kid says to another, "Dude how old do you think these rocks are?"
This kid answers, "Probably a good few billion years old."
And then this other kid in my crew says, "the earth is only 4000 years old."
Everyone starts laughing because its stupid and then the smartest kid in our group goes "There is no way the earth can be 4000 years old because carbon dating dates stuff back billions of years ago"
And then the other kid goes "no carbon dating is false"
I was quite taken aback by the stupidity of these remarks and so I looked into it more. I learned that this dude in the mid-1900s used the bible to date the earth back 4000 years ago on like a tuesday at 9 oclock in the morning.
This is bullshite
I just have to ask if anyone on here believes this?
Posted by StrawsDrawnAtRandom
Member since Sep 2013
21146 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:32 pm to
Ah shite, man. You just opened a can of worms. There's tons of people here that believe the Earth is less than 10,000 years old in spite of trees being older than that.

Also, Jesus never existed.

/thread.
Posted by Hardy_Har
MS
Member since Nov 2012
16285 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:36 pm to
Your username + OM = Racist
Posted by AGoodTexan
Texas, USA
Member since Apr 2014
754 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:36 pm to
Most common number I hear thrown around by the bible-thumpers is 6,000 not 4.
Posted by wilkesboothjohn
Member since Jul 2014
19 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:44 pm to
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Racist

I am making fun of some guy I know who graduated from ole miss. If it were any other university nobody would think im racist
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119487 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:45 pm to
quote:

Most common number I hear thrown around by the bible-thumpers is 6,000 not 4.


6,000 would be more accurate than 4,000.
Posted by JustinBieberFan
Missouri
Member since May 2014
899 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:45 pm to
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Also, Jesus never existed.


Did Aristotle, Socrates, or Plato exist?
Posted by Kentucker
Cincinnati, KY
Member since Apr 2013
19351 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:45 pm to
It's 6,000 years.
Posted by Stacked
Member since Apr 2012
5675 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:47 pm to
quote:

Also, Jesus never existed.


Jesus was mentioned in the Works of Josephus, a historian of the time. Whether you believe Jesus is God or not is up to you, but he very much was here and was recorded by non-christians alike as being so.
Posted by wilkesboothjohn
Member since Jul 2014
19 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:48 pm to
Alright well if its 6000 then this kid was especially dumb
Posted by JustinBieberFan
Missouri
Member since May 2014
899 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:48 pm to
I agree Stacked.
Posted by Stacked
Member since Apr 2012
5675 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:49 pm to
The kid's just repeating what he's been told. Give him a break. He isn't yet at an age where he breaks this stuff down on his own to figure out what he really believes.
Posted by Vols&Shaft83
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Member since Dec 2012
69932 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:52 pm to
quote:

Also, Jesus never existed.



I beg to differ

Posted by wilkesboothjohn
Member since Jul 2014
19 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:52 pm to
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He isn't yet at an age where he breaks this stuff down on his own to figure out what he really believes.

He was 16
Posted by Stacked
Member since Apr 2012
5675 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:55 pm to
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He was 16


Still living with parents. Case and point. I know people in their 30's who are just now really figuring out what THEY believe as opposed to what they've always been told. 16 is barely old enough to drive, let alone drive responsibly. And you expect him to have the history of the world worked out?
Posted by KyleOrtonsMustache
Krystal Baller
Member since Jan 2008
4956 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:55 pm to
quote:

philmont


One of the greatest spots on earth. I worked as a wrangler there for a year.

As for the rest of your post, I don't care if someone is wrong. It has never bothered me.
Posted by StrawsDrawnAtRandom
Member since Sep 2013
21146 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:55 pm to
quote:

Jesus was mentioned in the Works of Josephus, a historian of the time. Whether you believe Jesus is God or not is up to you, but he very much was here and was recorded by non-christians alike as being so.


Josephus was born after or maybe a year before Jesus had died.
Posted by oR33Do
Tuscaloosa
Member since Oct 2012
13561 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:55 pm to
Did you get some peach cobbler while at Philmont?

Posted by StrawsDrawnAtRandom
Member since Sep 2013
21146 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:57 pm to
"Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, written around 93–94 AD, includes two references to the biblical Jesus Christ in Books 18 and 20 and a reference to John the Baptist in Book 18.[3][4]"

You don't find it strange that he only thought to mention such a historical figure 60 years after the man had died?

Say, how do you think Jesus looked?
Posted by KyleOrtonsMustache
Krystal Baller
Member since Jan 2008
4956 posts
Posted on 7/6/14 at 3:57 pm to
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Did you get some peach cobbler while at Philmont?


I bet he got those cardboard pimmican bars
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