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Originally Posted by AndreH
Just for the records: If you mean by other religions, other Christian religions, then your thinking is wrong.
Protestants in Germany (and as far as I know in several other countries) do have confirmation. (Typically at the age of 14). It is held together with first Communion.
As far as I know (not sure) Martin Luther said that with 9 or 10 a kid ain't old enough to be aware of what all this is about and therefore changed that point.
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Ah. Thank you kindly. I knew that there were some differences in sacraments, but not that one.
Thumping, I hate to get into an "am not/are too" debate with you, but you're flat wrong. Once you say "God did it" (which quite a lot of creationists
do give as their only answer), there is no inquiry left or needed. You have your answer. If you look at
why it happened, you are acknowledging that "God did it" is not a suitable answer and that science has the right system, and when you do that, there is no answer not made out of willful ignorance that does not result in awareness of the overwhelming evidence for evolution.
You really need to get thee to a library. Your "facts" are all wrong. The reason, for example, that new lava "always" gives an ancient dating is that, well, it doesn't. Sometimes, there are crystals within the lava that really are that old. More frequently, it's because someone is applying the wrong radiometric dating system. You seem unaware that there's more than one; C-14 dating is only used up to a certain age. After that, other forms are needed. The lava dating that you don't seem to realize is completely debunked comes from people applying incorrect science in the first place. If you haven't already, you need to go to
http://www.talkorigins.org, because they know what they're talking about and you don't.