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So you must appeal to authority to make any claims about the creation week. What you're looking for is the fallacy of false appeal to authority (or appeal to false authority). The lexicon might be either, depending how good a lexicon it is. An eyewitness of a murder is appealed to to convict...

Possibly. Appeal to authority is not a fallacy. We all do it when we quote from the Bible, or consult a Hebrew lexicon/dictionary. Both are "authorities" on different levels, but for those of us who don't know Hebrew, or didn't directly experience the creation week, it's the only way we can have...

Ok.

@Right Divider Oh, right...you have me on ignore.

I have a question. Are you also bound by the same rules in your responses?

I'll do their work for them. One allegory I've heard is that "evening and morning" is a reference to a trajectory that's repeated multiple times, meaning from chaos to order. I.e., each "day" was an era where God was working with certain parts of creation until He had achieved the planned level...

No, I meant that they fudge or ignore the numbers to make it support their view, sometimes calling it "contamination", or scrounging for a different source. Agreed--they know how to do it, and yet they still want to retain the excuse when the results don't support their view. In coal? I was...

@Idolater: When they start with "It's pseudoscience," they've already rejected more than our elevator pitch.

Ballot box stuffing?

Notice that they have to start the wiki article by calling the view "pseudoscience." That's a PR move, not a "science" argument. It continues by arguing that there wasn't a global flood; it was a whole bunch of local floods in places all over the world. What exactly do you think we need to argue...

Yes, but since there are only the two elements involved (ratio of the two types of carbon), the difference could mean more time has elapsed or different starting point in time.

Money should never be laundered through a toilet.

Oh, so you're building your split hair case to support a split end?

Wrong hair. You've tried to assert that the Catholic Church is legitimate and most others illegitimate based on the presence of bishops, not allowing for other churches to call the same office by a different name. And perhaps you're forgetting the Church of England, which is Protestant, but...

You mean like here: Acts 1:20 (KJV) For it is written in the book of Psalm, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take. ?

Don't "shepherds" lead flocks? Isn't "pastor" the word we use that's derived from the Greek word for shepherd? And don't most churches that don't have "bishops" at least have pastors, including Anabaptist congregations? You're splitting word hairs to make a useless point.

I think that's more Amish than Mennonite.

Maybe more will leave as they put the clot shot on the kids' vax schedule.

There are a few reasons to think it did, but the flood wiped out the evidence, as well as the corporate memory. Just a speculation on my part.

And? What about charcoal? It's made just from burning wood in a certain way, but it increases the energy value. What about alcohol? It's made by fermenting--a natural process. Both can be used to step toward other fuels that provide the energy density you're looking for, and both could be...