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I feel what he is saying, time is relative. If you travel at the speed of light, funny things happen. You get crushed into an infinitely small, infinitely massive particle with no perception of time. Time just doesn't pass for you, of course you'd be dead, but that is beside the point. If you go near the speed of light, it would pass slower for you. Another example of relative\ time would be if you removed everything from the universe. The universe would still be there, but time would cease to exist. AKA nothing could never ever ever happen ever.
As for carbon dating, scientists accept that it is only accurate up to about 60,000 years. Where atmospheric oxygen levels were the approximately the same as they are today. Other methods exist as well, such as analyzing rock layers and the species that they find fossilized in different layers.
As for religion prevents violence or causes it, there is no way to prove it unless we had an alternate timeline to analyze. Religions just go through "phases" so to speak. Millions have been killed in the name of Christianity, especially during the middle ages. In fact, Christianity has caused more deaths than Islam. Modern day Christianity is much tamer, and it seems the once tame Islam is now becoming more violent. Not to say that Islam endorses violence like the news will have you believe, there are always radicals who will kill in the name of their religion.
Edit: And Deists haven't caused more suffering, how could they? They were never that large of a group.
As for carbon dating, scientists accept that it is only accurate up to about 60,000 years. Where atmospheric oxygen levels were the approximately the same as they are today. Other methods exist as well, such as analyzing rock layers and the species that they find fossilized in different layers.
As for religion prevents violence or causes it, there is no way to prove it unless we had an alternate timeline to analyze. Religions just go through "phases" so to speak. Millions have been killed in the name of Christianity, especially during the middle ages. In fact, Christianity has caused more deaths than Islam. Modern day Christianity is much tamer, and it seems the once tame Islam is now becoming more violent. Not to say that Islam endorses violence like the news will have you believe, there are always radicals who will kill in the name of their religion.
Edit: And Deists haven't caused more suffering, how could they? They were never that large of a group.
