Okay in this clip Dawkins says "The scientific method clearly demonstrates that the world is 4 and a half billion years old, do you accept that?" to Ted Haggard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjqUm...ed&search=
Haggard counters saying that he is only accepting some of the views that are accepted in some of the scientific community as fact. Haggard then says maybe 100 years from now Dawkins grandkids might laugh at him for saying that. Dawkins replies, "Do you want to bet?"
So, is Dawkins right that the scientific method clearly demonstrates that the world is 4 1/2 billion years old? And again, is there any possible way a reasonable person could arrive at the conclusion that Earth is less than a million years old with the scientific information available?
My friend is essentially saying the distance from Los Angeles to New York back to Los Angeles is 1 mile (probably less) instead of 4800 miles (if that's what science says it is). Or 5,280 feet (at most) instead of the 25,344,000 feet that it takes. This is what I would call an alarming difference of opinion.