The 'Young-earth' "theorists" take the bible literally and the earth is no older than 6,000yrs old

First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the move and I hope the new home works out well for you. You say "The crux of my opponent's argument is that the world is 6,000 yrs old because there is no other way it couldn't be." You act as if that is invalid. Remember, it is impossible to prove something of this nature to another person. I'm not trying to prove to you that the earth is no older than 6,000 yrs old, I'm presenting evidence that it could be. In your first argument you say that there are provable facts that the earth is much older. All I have to do is show that there is another reasonable explanation of the world's origins. The website I provided showed many reasons why the earth and the universe could not be billions of yrs old. If you have Theories A, B, C, D, and E, and you find reasonable evidence that theories B, C, D, and E are incorrect, then the evidence points towards theory A. Does it prove anything? Absolutely not. Does it supply reasonable evidence to back up theory A? Definitely. So, that type of argument is completely valid. Again, we're not proving anything. Just presenting evidence. Next, you argue that because there are so many religions in the world that Christianity could not be true. You say that if it were true then there shouldn't be so many people with different versions of things. There was a game we used to play at birthday parties called telephone. One person thinks up a phrase and whispers it to another person. That person whispers it to the next person and on down the line. At the end of the round the person who was last to hear the phrase says what he/she heard whispered to them. It is always different from what it started as. Does this mean that the phrase whispered at the beginning was fundementally flawed? No. It means that over time through channels of communication things get misunderstood and changed. Sometimes on purpose. So the thought that there are millions of people who believe different things than Christianity, and the fact that they believe different things disproves Christianity somehow, is ridiculous. There are millions of people who don't believe that the earth is millions or billions of years old (including other religions than Christianity). Does this disprove that the earth is not millions or billions of years old? No. That is honestly the worst argument I've ever heard. Now, I would like to point out here that my opponent did not offer any counter evidence for round two when we were discussing stars. Instead he dodged the issue and moved on to another. You say that there are artifacts and things that date back to far more than 6,000 yrs. You yourself however, admit that there are numerous shortcomings to carbon dating. There are. The biggest of which is that the scientists that use it assume that the atmosphere has been mostly constant since the beginning of time. They know that it has changed somewhat because they have a table to re-calibrate the date due to different levels of carbon in the atmosphere. These tables however, only date back 15-20 yrs. We don't know what the atmosphere was like 2,000 yrs ago. For that matter we don't know what it was like 300 yrs ago. We don't know what the carbon levels were for these dates because we didn't know how to measure them back then. Another problem with it is that it is very easy for an object to become cantaminated with recent carbon. Although this doesn't disprove carbon dating it does once again show that it is not proof of anything. Once again, I would like to say that all I have to do is show that you cannot prove that the earth is older than 6,000 yrs old. Your first argument (which is the basis for this debate) claims that there is overwhelming proof that the world is much older than 6,000 yrs old. That it is in fact millions or billions of yrs old. As I have shown, no one can prove either the young earth view or the view you presented. You claim that you know for a FACT that anyone who believes in a young earth is willfully deluding themselves. I have given evidences for a young earth, and evidences against an earth that is millions or billions of yrs old. So far however, besides attacking young earth creationists personally, you have not given evidence against any of my arguments. Have I PROVEN that the young earth view is correct? No. What I have done is showed that you cannot prove that the earth is much older. I have provided a reasonable explanation of the young earth view. I have provided evidence that radiocarbon dating could be wrong. You did not prove your view. You did not show that all young earth creationists are willfully deluding themselves. You did not disprove any of my arguments. I'm not asking for people voting in this debate to believe my side of things. I'm asking them to realize that you cannot prove that GOD did not create the world. I'm asking them to realize that you cannot prove that the earth is older than 6,000 yrs. Lastly, you provided some videos that were trying to prove that the story of Jesus is just folklore blown out of proportion. The "proof" of this is that by using the zodiac symbol one can see in the stars where the story came from. This really doesn't have to do with how old the earth is. I'm guessing you were taking the approach of trying to disprove Christianity and therefore prove that GOD didn't create the world. This would then prove that the world was much older than 6,000 yrs. When I first started watching the video I thought "wow that's alot of coincidences. Almost too many to be coincidences." Then I remembered Psalm 19:1 which says "The heavens declare the glory of GOD." As creator, GOD could have written the greatest story of all time into the stars. The story of His Son dying to save sinners. I was right. It wasn't coincidence. It was GOD displaying His glory by writing a story that hadn't even happened yet into the stars at the dawn of time.