Hedwigkin,

I just don't want to get burned at the stake like so many others.

So, computer scientists can not be involved in geological studies and the study of the earth? If you had an honest approach, you would have realized that, instead, your incredulity, betrays your bias.

Yes I am biased. I am biased against people trained in one field from pretending they are somehow knowledgeable in another. Do you call a plumber to fix your computer? Would you ask a physicist to do brain surgery? Of course not. Despite the fact that each might be good at what they do, they are not trained in other technical and theoretical fields.
My brother is a computer "scientist" and he will be the first to tell you that he is a not a scientist. I go to him if I want to know more about computers...not if I want to learn about the latest research on the age of the earth. An honest approach, if you were interested in that, would be to go to well-respected experts in the area of interest.

Creationists have a long history of misrepresenting their credentials (see http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/credentials.htm). Pretending that we should accept psychologists, linguists, etc. as somehow knowledgeable on human origins and the age of the earth is just the latest feeble attempt.

[This message has been edited by flechenbones (edited 10/14/2005 12:32p).]