In Reply to: Re: More from 'National Geographic' posted by Christian on March 30, 2005 at 17:12:18:
Evolution is a theory, not an opinion. It is an empirically testable theory. Creationism, scientific creationism, intelligent design, whatever you want to call it (and the latter two are merely covers that Christians use to cloak the biblical account of creation in some semblance of respectability) are merely religious opinions that cannot be tested empirically. You rightly say that your belief that those fossils are only 10,000 years old is only an opinion, because you have absolutely no basis for saying that other than your religious, untestable belief. Whereas the scientists who estimated the age of those fossils base that on testable science. It's pretty astounding that you could even offer your opinion on the age of those fossils given that you haven't examined them, and know nothing about them other than what's written in the article.