Can you point out where I was rude? I try to see others point of view..but when it contradicts reality i need more help...2+3=8 is not something I can grasp.
Can you point out where I was rude? I try to see others point of view..but when it contradicts reality i need more help...2+3=8 is not something I can grasp.
Assuming they 'know' thing the way you do, and being dismissiveBut I do have issues with folks who hold on to things long after they are known to be completely false.
a rather open insinuation open for much interpretation.am thankful their hands are not so tied as some...
Should one accept any and all views as equal? That would be difficult for me to accept.
I'm still confused. Are you saying that your desire is to understand why someone believes as they do? That judging someone's point of view as right or wrong is not appropriate? Or that we, being fallible mortals, should not presume to decide that someone else's point of view is wrong?
I don't want to dismiss, I want to understand.
I'd still like to know how they get less than 6 from 10 plus 13 plus 400 plus 40000 etc.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale#mediaviewer/File:Geologic_Clock_with_events_and_periods.svg![]()
THAT is the crux of the bisquit...
How can you discard all that science?
That is what you've said about me being dismissive and rude...
I've said, I'm ok with metaphor, metaphysics, spiritual notions...but sitting there and ignoring the fossil record, carbon dating, layers of earth, and insisting that the stories are factual and true... I'd love to be able to understand and make sense of it.