When did you accept God in your life, or realize you did not believe in him?

yes. i think it's all crap. i tend to believe only in the measurable/observable. measuring and observing also shed light on the fringe of our perceptions, so i accept there is a more out there than is currently accessible to us. by this, i mean things like sub-atomic particles and forces and the theories of their mechanics.

 

if i knew god did that, then sure, i'd give him credit. but that's not what i know. you could simply replace "god" with "the easter bunny" and see how little sense that question makes to somebody who doesn't presuppose the existance of god.

 

I accepted Christ when I was 12 years old. I was at home in my room after attending a revival service that same night. I did not accept him at church but I kept thinking about it and did it that night after I got home.

I think if you ever really get it then you will know it is real. You will feel God work in your heart and you will miss him when you break fellowship with him.

 

I agree with that. I went to church/Sunday School my whole life. I accepted Christ one night while I was laying in bed all by myself, about age 5. I had heard it before, but that morning the SS teacher spoke of asking Jesus into your heart again, and that night I decided I should do it. So I said my prayer, and then rolled over and went to sleep.

 

"how reliable things like carbon dating are"

I think carbon dating is pretty reliable.

 

Is it?

 

Yes it is.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/carbon-142.htm

Because the half-life of carbon-14 is 5,700 years, it is only reliable for dating objects up to about 60,000 years old. However, the principle of carbon-14 dating applies to other isotopes as well. Potassium-40 is another radioactive element naturally found in your body and has a half-life of 1.3 billion years. Other useful radioisotopes for radioactive dating include Uranium -235 (half-life = 704 million years), Uranium -238 (half-life = 4.5 billion years), Thorium-232 (half-life = 14 billion years) and Rubidium-87 (half-life = 49 billion years).

The use of various radioisotopes allows the dating of biological and geological samples with a high degree of accuracy. However, radioisotope dating may not work so well in the future. Anything that dies after the 1940s, when Nuclear bombs, nuclear reactors and open-air nuclear tests started changing things, will be harder to date precisely.

 

I grew up (and still consider myself) Jewish. I'm also the son of an engineer. One day, as a teenager, I started questioning things such as the "world being created in 7 days". I got an interesting answer from my dad that I remember to this day: "We're not necessariy talking 7 X 24 hours here. The days could be 7 days based on some larger, much more slowly rotating planet. Or it might just be a bunch of poetry."

While I still consider myself Jewish and follow many (not all) of the traditions of Judaism, I tend to be most comfortable with the empiracle (sp?) world.

 

your dad sounds like he's got a good head on his shoulders.

 

I was told that I accepted God when I was about 1.