On Thursday, December 17, 2015 at 10:50:37 PM UTC-5, rbowman wrote:
On 12/17/2015 08:39 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
Thanks for the link. And from a LDS source,
also (which is appreciated). It doesn't surprise
me that science hasn't yet made conclusions about
DNA in the early Americas. Science can only do
just so much. Which is more than before, and less
than in the future. Unless the govenment regulates
science, of course.

That sounds like a conversation at work today that came close to being
heated. A defender of the young earth theory was taking the commonly
accepted archaeological dating to task. In all fairness, both camps are
telling Just So stories because 'who the hell knows?' is not an
acceptable answer.

One camp has scientific proof, that is verifiable, can be demonstrated,
repeated, etc. The other camp has handed down stories from thousands of
years ago that require supernatural forces that none of us have ever
seen and other than the handed down stories, there is no proof at all to
believe are true. Some of the are just plain silly, like Noah somehow
acquiring two of every animal from the whole planet and putting them on
a boat he built. If you went into a court of law with fossil evidence,
carbon dating, DNA evidence, it would be accepted. They wouldn't accept
handed down stories as evidence. There is a difference.