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		spdionis on Jan 12, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New finding: 600M years ago, a single mutation cha... A (pretty smart) friend of mine tried to show me that scientists' findings about he Earth's age are wrong because he read aome article about errors in the estimation technique. He then argued that therefore Earth is not very old and evolution didn't have time to happen. I was amazed...

ionforce on Jan 12, 2016 | [–]

It's quite frustrating that the illogical latch onto morsels/islands of logic that are convenient for their agenda.

You can pick and choose your religion, but you can't pick and choose with logic.

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