I’m sorry Adam, but you can’t just hand-wave away measurements by putting “measurements” in scare quotes and crying “assumptions” as if “assumptions” were some sort of get-out-of-jail-free-card that let you reject anything and everything about science that you don’t like.
If you want to refute measurements, you must do so by providing evidence that the measurements were not carried out properly. And if you want to refute assumptions, you must do so by providing evidence that the assumptions were not only incorrect, but that they were sufficiently incorrect to allow your alternative reality to be a possibility. To do anything less is either wilful ignorance about how science works, or else outright dishonesty.
No they don’t. As I’ve said repeatedly, science has rules and measurement has rules, and if “creation scientists” want to claim to be using “exactly the same science,” they need to be following exactly the same rules. It is their failure to do so that is why they are discredited. Atheism and not accepting God have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
No you don’t like science. You like cool YouTube videos and pretty pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope. If you really liked science, and you really were not discounting it, you would not make passive-aggressive remarks about “secular science” or denounce it as “atheist” just because its rules lead to conclusions that you don’t like. You would learn, understand, respect and apply the basic rules, principles and methods of science, because it’s the basic rules, principles and methods that are what science is all about in the first place. The pretty pictures and cool YouTube videos are just the end result.
And yes, I find God by opening the Bible too. But what I find in the Bible is a whole lot about the things that God demands of us. One of which is honesty. And guess what? Honesty has rules too.
Translation: “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
I don’t know what Bible you are reading, Adam, but my Bible tells us that we are to live out its commands in the context of the Real World. A Real World which testifies to our eyes and ears with every fibre of its being of a great antiquity of 4.5 billion years and not just six thousand. My Bible isn’t the manifesto for The Party in Nineteen Eighty Four and it doesn’t portray God as Big Brother.
In any case, “using science as the ultimate authority and making the Bible fit” is exactly what you yourself do when you acknowledge that the earth goes round the sun and not the other way around, and that it is a globe and not a flat plane covered by a solid dome.