WTF? The correct answer isn't even listed.
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It was founded by the founder of the Christan Scientist movement, who wanted to be honest that the publication originated from a religious institution. But it appears to be a legitimate, respectable, almost entirely secular publication, with far greater circulation than its oh-so-snarkable name would indicate.
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Wouldn't they consider the correct answer to be 6200-something?
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that would be the jews, christians count the time from the moment of JC was born(or died, i don't remember)
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Neither.
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I was referring to Young Earth Creationism.
Whatever, I haven't spent enough time reading about this to make a decent joke.
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Well, to be fair, no one is really sure the universe didn't come into existence 10 seconds ago.
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YEC !== Christians (i think)
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when then?
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Was typing a response to aliceif but will stick it in a response to Jarry.
Neither.
Pedantically you are correct but Anno Domini is supposedly the year of birth (there is probably some wiggle on which year so it's more traditional year of birth than actual).
EDIT: @Jarry check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini if you want better descriptor of some of the wiggle
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i was doing that. thank you!
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YEC !== Christians (i think)
YECs are a sub-subset of Christians, in that they are a subset of Creationists which are a subset of Christians.
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This reminds me of the classical skit on the classical Swedish show "Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter".
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They all belong. That's breakfast.
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YECs are a sub-subset of Christians, in that they are a subset of Creationists which are a subset of Christians.
I disagree with this categorization. Creationists would be a subset of {people who believe in any religion that believes a supernatural being created the Earth}. Many other religions believe in creation of one sort or another. Judaism and Islam have the same creation beliefs as Christianity. The Rigveda is a Hindu account of creation. These religions surely have some subset of believers (possibly a small subset, possibly the vast majority of believers) who take their religion's creation story at face value, and who therefore can be termed creationists.
I don't know enough about non-Abrahamic religions to know if any of their creation stories can be assigned a date, but at least scriptures of the three Abrahamic religions can be interpreted to place the creation of the Earth at a more-or-less specific date. Therefore, believers of any of these religions who take their creation story literally can be described as "young-earth" creationists.
Therefore, neither Creationists nor Young-Earth Creationists are a subset of Christians, but encompass believers of other religions. (If you want to claim they are "creationists," rather than "Creationists," go ahead, I guess. I'll stay out of that debate, TYVM.)
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I already took that bullet for you.
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Well, to be fair, no one is really sure the universe didn't come into existence 10 seconds ago
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Well, to be fair, no one is really sure the universe didn't come into existence 10 seconds ago.
I have no evidence that that is not true, but I choose to not believe that God is a massive lameass jerkwad.
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I have no evidence that that is not true, but I choose to not believe that God is a massive lameass jerkwad.
what if God were one of us... and hung out here.
By definition he/she/it would be a massive lameass jerkwad.
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"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," say Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.
Man then goes on to prove that white is black and black is white and gets himself killed at the next zebra crossing.”
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I have no evidence that that is not true, but I choose to not believe that God is a massive lameass jerkwad.
Do you also choose to believe that You are not a massive lameass jerkwad?
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