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--- a creationist wrote: > > Uniformitarianism says that everything has developed very slowly, > through strictly natural processes, with no supernatural > intervention. That is begging the question. There is no warrant or > proof for such an assumption, but ALL of the dating methods depend on > it. --- i wrote: What is the warrant or proof of the assumption that there was supernatural intervention in the formation of the earth, the solar system, or anything? Why should the assumption that there was supernatural intervention have precedence over the assumption that there wasn't any? If the human experience in the present has no verifiable evidence of supernatural effects or events, why should we believe that there has ever been a supernatural event? Is it not safer to assume the non- existence of the supernatural until evidence for its existence is presented? That is not to say that it can't or doesn't exist, just that we have no reason to consider that option until evidence points to it being a possibility. The evidence available today doesn't point to the existence of supernatural events. Until there is evidence for supernatural events, it is safer to assume that there haven't been any. |