This is not an article about grammar, which I assumed most are delighted to hear. But it is on something more complex. It is about gender specific pronouns, their use and how that relates to the pursuit of truth. Last week, on a physician assistant (my profession) professional online forum, I posted a link to…

Introduction: This my final installment of a long series of articles on the age of the earth. Today I want to look at radiometric dating techniques. While they are not the only way we date things in nature, it is often the “whipping boy,” of the young earth creationists (YECs), who put out volumes of…

The Problem One third of Americans say they believe in a six-thousand-year-old earth. They say they believe this because they are Christians and their Bible tells them to. But while the Bible says nothing about the age of the earth, a group of conservative Christians (Young Earth Creationists or YECs) are promoting the idea that…

While I can’t see what each person reads on my blog space, I can see how many read each post. When I do a “health update” it always warms my heart to see the sudden uptick in readership, sometimes tenfold. It tells me that most people care about me as a human, not necessarily about…

Because these articles float in cyberspace independently, I must state my purpose with each one. Bear with the redundancy and feel welcome to skip to the next titled section if you have read previous articles in this series. The Problem One third of Americans believe that the earth is just six thousand years old, despite…

God’s Other Word The more than 30% of Americans who claim they believe in a 6,000-year-old-earth do so out of a religious conviction. As described before, this religious dogma comes from the notion that the Bible must be taking literally in all cases, although the Bible never says it is to be taken that way.…

This is the topic I really wanted to discuss, and, in some ways, I wish I was starting here. That is why I’ve changed the title of this series for those who discover it by a search engine. There are abundant internet landings on the evidence of a young earth, virtually all sponsored by the…

Now, I want to look at the evidence of an old earth Vs a young—six-thousand-year-old—earth. I want to do this in a respectful way to the young earth proponents by using what they have identified as proof of a young earth. However, before I move forward, I must deal with the elephant in the room,…

It is a gorgeous day here in the Pacific Northwest. The temperatures are in the low 70s and the sky is this solid dome of light blue, without one blemish. I wanted to pause and to mention a few things rather quickly. One Hundred New Followers I got a notice today that I have four…

Restating the Problem More than a third of Americans no longer believe in science or giving the “experts in their field” their due respect. This is different from the period from the Middle Ages until the post-World War II era when science was still trusted and was giving great hope to the vast majority. Science…