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(This is from another post of my in another thread 2 and a half years ago)
This I have to say is my all time favourite creationist argument. I want to thank you for bringing it up, very few people do anymore. It is an excellent example of how some creationists deliberately misrepresent information in the hopes that people listening will be uninformed and might actually fall for it. I say some creationists, because not all creationists are actually this unethical.
For example
Answers in Genesis actually has a page that lists some of the more ridiculous arguments used by other creationists, and this is one of them.
Another interesting
Christian creationist site gives us some greater detail of this misleading argument.
The fact is that NASA was not expecting any more than a couple of inches of dust on the moon, and this is in fact that they found. It is also a fact that given the more accurate figures of accumulations the amount of dust found on the moon indicates an age for the moon of approximately 4.25 4.5billion years (just slightly younger than the earth), and this figure is matched by radio reactive dating of several moon rocks.
This article from
talkorigin, which I have already quoted, goes into greater detail of the kind of techniques that creationists use. Twice Henry Morris reversed the digits on dates to make it seem that references he cited were more recent than they actually were (honest mistake? Perhaps, but twice and always in his favour?) Not to mention misquoting those sources and inaccurate calculations to make it seem as if the amount of dust on the moon indicated a young age when in fact it indicates the opposite.
But I hope that you will check into some of this stuff for your self and that you will learn to be a bit more skeptical even of those people you respect. We are all human and we err, both factually and ethically.
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What I love about this argument (and this is the me from today speaking now) is that we have refuting evidence coming not only from evolutionist sites but also coming from young earth creationists sites and old earth creationists sites. It is just amazing to me that anyone still accepts this kind of nonsense.
(what can I say, another one bites the dust)