We can have a discussion if you wish about how often secular science has been wrong.
Wrong? You mean kinda like in school, where you often flail a bit before you finally figure out exactly what the teacher is trying to convey? Except in science, initially there isn’t even a teacher, just a bunch of students having to root out the information themselves, and then even writing the textbook themselves. Often been wrong – yup. But in the end, the textbook gets written, cutting through all the pain and agony, so someone can actually take on the task of teacher for the next generation of scientists.
Observing secular science make mistakes doesn’t bother me much at all, cause after a while I see that real visible progress has been made. Now Genesis science, predicated on the idea that no error can be admitted, so you are obligated to defend silly iron-age science - now that is a sad commentary on human unwillingness to learn.
(And how God's Word stands forever)
That ragtag collection of nomadic religious accounts that you euphemistically call “God’s Word” stands forever only in the fanatical unthinking devotion it receives from your types. It’s pretty much on the “not worth bothering with” shelf in most scientific institutions.
You might want to consider if this approach to science isn't the reason secularists are so often wrong.
As I have pointed out before, for a couple of millennia when religion had the playing field all to itself, and science wasn’t even a contender, human progress was essentially stagnant. But in my lifetime, science has added far more new knowledge than all religions in all of recorded history. So there is already an extended clear precedent for showing that having a “divine foot in the door” is far more a detriment than an advantage.
However when evidence seems to lead to a supernatural creator, you should be willing to follow that evidence where it leads.
A couple of years before his death, I attended a lecture given by Carl Sagan. After his prepared remarks, during the Q&A, a fundamentalist Christian berated Carl for his lack of belief. Carl politely heard him out, and then responded by summarizing the creation account as recorded in Genesis, and then he summarized a couple of other creation accounts from other non-Christian religions. Finally he simply pointed out that the non-Christian accounts dovetailed much more closely with what science has found than did the Genesis one. So if I take your advice, I should go back and dig out the info from that presentation, and follow the evidence into some religion far afield from Christianity.
Modern science was largely founded by scientists taking a new approach...believing in the Biblical account of an orderly creation.
And in so doing, modern science found that much of the Genesis story was apocryphal. Don’t ya hate it when things go exactly opposite to what you expect?
God's Word was inerrant both then and now.
Except when your nomadic creation tale makes a mockery of well-established science, then it makes some real doozers, like Cadry-level “rapture will be in 2015” type errors.
Science concluded no such thing. Evolutionists believe that...
On the age of the earth, the Christian Lord Kelvin (of the Second Law of Thermodynamics fame) left a legacy of defending an age of the earth more than a thousand times as long as you believe in. I kinda thought he was not a fan of Darwin, but if you say he was in fact a closet evolutionist – glad to know it.
which is the reason they are so often wrong.
In Lord Kelvin’s case, he was wrong – but not in your favor. Radioactivity was too new a subject for him to know that it was a significant player in the earth’s internal heat budget. Had he understood that, he probably would have upped his calculated age of the earth to about – say – 4.5 billion years, just like Snelling confirmed.