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Posted by Da Pittman

So in my last debate got me thinking of something, I tried a post search and couldn’t find it but here it is so sorry if it is a dup thread.

So most every time I get into a debate about evolution or the Bible being true historical fact comes up with the use of science to prove how old something is. Well the part that confuses me is that when the general accepted age of the Earth is 4+ billions years old which many religious people say is wrong according to the Bible and that the science and math used to come up with that age of the Earth is wrong.

However when it comes to proving that the Arc is this old, or a flood happened her or this city is this old and so on and now the math and science is perfectly good?

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Originally posted by Lord Knightfa11
FINE. I WILL EXPLAIN.
First of all, I wanted to find how much temperature changes comparatively with the change in distance to the sun, so i needed a calculation for that.

I looked up the earth's axial tilt online and that was my angle

I looked up the diameter of the earth online and that was my hypotenuse. I completed the triangle, making a right triangle.

After this, its very simple to find out the length of the opposite side of my angle. I simply do "trigonometry" Hyp sin A=Opposite. Plug it in and use a scientific calculator with the sin function and you get the change in distance.

Now sin, cos, tan, all of those calculator functions are related to properties that describe a right triangle.

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Originally posted by Lord Knightfa11
FINE. I WILL EXPLAIN.
First of all, I wanted to find how much temperature changes comparatively with the change in distance to the sun, so i needed a calculation for that.

I looked up the earth's axial tilt online and that was my angle

I looked up the diameter of the earth online and that was my hypotenuse. I completed the triangle, making a right triangle.

After this, its very simple to find out the length of the opposite side of my angle. I simply do "trigonometry" Hyp sin A=Opposite. Plug it in and use a scientific calculator with the sin function and you get the change in distance.

Now sin, cos, tan, all of those calculator functions are related to properties that describe a right triangle.

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Originally posted by Lord Knightfa11
after having this number, i estimated how much closer to the sun the earth would be by studying the diagram of the orbit and then figured out what the ratio was on average of the temperature to miles closer to the sun. Multiply this by the estimate of 1/3 the distance to the sun, and you get your answer. Its hard to explain without actually doing the problem again.

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Originally posted by Da Pittman
So in my last debate got me thinking of something, I tried a post search and couldn’t find it but here it is so sorry if it is a dup thread.

So most every time I get into a debate about evolution or the Bible being true historical fact comes up with the use of science to prove how old something is. Well the part that confuses me is that when the general accepted age of the Earth is 4+ billions years old which many religious people say is wrong according to the Bible and that the science and math used to come up with that age of the Earth is wrong.

However when it comes to proving that the Arc is this old, or a flood happened her or this city is this old and so on and now the math and science is perfectly good?

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Originally posted by Wild Shadow

i never understood how a person with limited knowledge of science can use science to support their religious claim, yet ignore the rest of said argument. theory or evidence. just to grasp on to the only part that seems to fit their religious believe.

numerous times, i have seen ppl qoute scientist when they state they believe in a god or call life a miracle.. they qoute the small portion of a scientist lecture as proof that scientist claim in God. igonoring the rest of the lecture qoute or even the religous or philosophical belief system of the person.

also funny how any gap in science or human knowledge, religion is ready to pounce on it with the claim if you cant explain it then it is god..missing fossil records, cellular cell make up the human genome ...ect..ect.. a few years later with science they discover certain truths and they readily slide back into the shadows without a fuss, pretending earlier religious comment that now seem foolish never were made.

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Originally posted by ushomefree
Provide an example, please.

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Originally posted by Lord Knightfa11
FINE. I WILL EXPLAIN.
First of all, I wanted to find how much temperature changes comparatively with the change in distance to the sun, so i needed a calculation for that.

I looked up the earth's axial tilt online and that was my angle

I looked up the diameter of the earth online and that was my hypotenuse. I completed the triangle, making a right triangle.

After this, its very simple to find out the length of the opposite side of my angle. I simply do "trigonometry" Hyp sin A=Opposite. Plug it in and use a scientific calculator with the sin function and you get the change in distance.

Now sin, cos, tan, all of those calculator functions are related to properties that describe a right triangle.