How do you respond to someone who thinks the world is 6000 years old?

Ok, if you think that then you think that.

Very slowly, and I would avoid any sudden movements until I was at a safe distance :P,

Seriously though how can people ignore so much evidence around them this way?

This, until they go away.

To anyone saying "respect the persons opinion"....NO! Saying CoD: Black Ops sucks is an opinion. Thinking Spider-Man is the greatest movie ever is an opinion. Thinking the earth is 6000 years old is not an opinion, it's ignorance. Ignoring a mountain of scientific evidence just so you can be "right" doesn't mean you have a different opinion, it makes you wrong.

The oh so wise comedian Lewis Black said it best "Their are people out there today that are watching the Flintstones as if it were a real life documentary. When I meet these people I hold up a fossel and say "fossel!" and if they still don't get it, I throw it just over their head."

Fact is their are more Athiests in the USA than their are African Americans. Yet look at all the changes and differences Black Activist groups can make. Athiests are the single largest "minority" in the United States. Yet their is no voice for them because most of them have this attitude that it is okay to tolerate the ignorance of others because it's on the subject of religion.

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[QUOTE="krazy-blazer"]I'd respect his opinion, that's pretty much it.BiancaDK

I'd acknowledge his opinion, but I wouldn't respect it.

I'd ignore his opinion, and I would subsequently disrespect him.

That's more like it.

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I'd acknowledge his opinion, but I wouldn't respect it.

I'd ignore his opinion, and I would subsequently disrespect him.

That's more like it.

I would just be like "Yeah....Ok man."

Just ignore it since close minded people will remain close minded.

Just pat him on the head and hope that fundamentalist religion dies with his generation. wstfld

I would assume that their faith to a religion is more important to them then what science is trying to prove. They believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. In the end, does any of this really matter? It's like arguing about how much a Big Mac had cost 15 years ago. People who believe that the Earth is 6000 - 10000 years old are just as capable of functioning in society as people who believe in the Flat Earth Theory. I actually find it quite funny that atheists (who tend to complain about religious people foisting their beliefs on them) are generally the ones who are foisting their ideas about how old the Earth is to those who don't hold similar beliefs.FragStains

If someone believed that 2 + 2 = 5, does that mean we should accept that his beliefs differ from ours?

Religious beliefs or personal opinions are one things, but people who dispute basic scientific facts like the age of the Earth are just likely not very well educated in the sciences and are demonstratably wrong.

I'd respect his opinion, that's pretty much it.krazy-blazer

I'd go "LOL Carbon Dating"

then I would be on my way

thats how i respond

I respectfully ask them questions about it. Someone told me this just recently.

[QUOTE="krazy-blazer"]I'd respect his opinion, that's pretty much it.needled24-7

I would like to see your hard evidence that proves that the earth is not 6000 years old please.

I would acknowledge his uneducated opinion, and try to prove him wrong, because you must be delusional to think that the Earth is 6000 years old.

I would like to see your hard evidence that proves that the earth is not 6000 years old please.

LikeHaterade

Seriously man?

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I would like to see your hard evidence that proves that the earth is not 6000 years old please.

metroidfood

Seriously man?

btw i think your link doesn't work.

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I would like to see your hard evidence that proves that the earth is not 6000 years old please.

needled24-7

Seriously man?

btw i think your link doesn't work.

Thanks, fixed.

Thanks, fixed.

metroidfood

It says that meteorites were used, when clearly meteorites come from space and not earth. Checkmate!

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I would like to see your hard evidence that proves that the earth is not 6000 years old please.

Seriously man?

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I would like to see your hard evidence that proves that the earth is not 6000 years old please.

sonicare

Seriously man?

Another astute observation. These people clearly have an agenda...

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Seriously man?

Another astute observation. These people clearly have an agenda...

I typically don't respond to them, I nod condescendingly and then walk away. I think I have a pretty good gage of if people are actually going to listen to reasonable arguments or if they're just going to try and support their dogma, and if they're the latter I'll typically tell them why they're wrong in an abbreviated manner and then when they start spouting dogma just walk away,

if the universe is only 6000 years old how come we can see things in space that are more than 6000 light-years away?comp_atkins

You're just looking at these things, but they're not really that far away... Proof.

I'd facepalm then turn around and walk away.

if the universe is only 6000 years old how come we can see things in space that are more than 6000 light-years away?comp_atkins

Laugh and point at them.

Then laugh some more.

I'd probably do something like this