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Editing a young-earth creationist book with ChatGPT-5

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Re: Editing a young-earth creationist book with ChatGPT-5

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Egret wrote: post #3
andsoitis wrote: post #2

> Creationism is a rapidly growing religious and intellectual phenomenon on a global scale. > … young earth … It is mind blowing how people believe this nonsense. Where’s their critical thinking?

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How old is the earth?

Re: Editing a young-earth creationist book with ChatGPT-5

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andsoitis wrote: post #4
Egret wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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How old is the earth?

If you use a philosophical uniformitarian interpretation of the amount of process that has occurred on earth or in the cosmos, you will get a figure of hundreds of millions of years or even billions of years. We do not dispute the amount of process. We deny philosophical uniformitarianism, which is an atheistic presupposition. The age of the earth, according to a reasonable interpretation of the Old Testament, is likely to be 6000 (Masoretic text) to 8500 years (if you rely on the Septuagint versions).

Re: Editing a young-earth creationist book with ChatGPT-5

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Post by swatcoder »

andsoitis wrote: post #2

> Creationism is a rapidly growing religious and intellectual phenomenon on a global scale. > … young earth … It is mind blowing how people believe this nonsense. Where’s their critical thinking?

I mean, answering your question seems to be exactly the point of the book.

If one were take you as genuinely curious about how people might convince themselves of a belief that seems entirely alien and implausible to you, the next step would probably be to earnestly read the book with the credit of good faith in its authors.

I think we can take for granted that doing so would not persuade you of very much, but it might inform you, so that you're no longer so "mind blown".

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Post by defrost »

Egret wrote: post #3
andsoitis wrote: post #2

> Creationism is a rapidly growing religious and intellectual phenomenon on a global scale. > … young earth … It is mind blowing how people believe this nonsense. Where’s their critical thinking?

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> The Christian creationist movement has plenty of people from the hard sciences with PhD's precisely because it is defensible, logical and evidence based.

Is flawed logic in itself.

I had a wonderful teacher in Civil Engineering with a PhD in Engineering and immense skill in the computation of harmonic wind induced vibrations in truss frames and other such things.

They also had a strong personal belief in young earth and other creationalist notions for which they had no professional background or grasp of radioactive dating whatsoever.

People with STEM PhD's are not immune to error or projecting expertise beyond their experience and qualifications.

Re: Editing a young-earth creationist book with ChatGPT-5

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Post by Egret »

swatcoder wrote: post #6
andsoitis wrote: post #2

> Creationism is a rapidly growing religious and intellectual phenomenon on a global scale. > … young earth … It is mind blowing how people believe this nonsense. Where’s their critical thinking?

I mean, answering your question seems to be exactly the point of the book. If one were take you as genuinely curious about how people might convince themselves of a belief that seems entirely alien and implausible to you, the next step would probably be to earnestly read the book with the credit of good faith in its authors. I think we can take for granted that doing so would not persuade you of very much, but it mig…

Thanks for that comment. A very important point. Worldviews condition how we interpret evidence. In that sense they can be self reinforcing. This applies to all worldviews- atheistic, Christian, and others.
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