Now you're just mocking and trying to discredit my testimony. Yes, I gave my entire life to Jesus because there was a cute girl in youth group despite the fact I've never stepped foot in church my entire life.
I'm not that shallow!
In reality, my decision to choose Jesus wasn't my first option. I explored all things supernatural. I gravitated towards the occult. Bought books by psychics who claimed to understand the afterlife. I told my good friend who just got out of the Marines and he invited me to church. He himself was lapsed in his faith and didn't think much about Jesus, but just had a feeling he was meant to invite me to his parent's church. Neither one of us were the same. A hardened Marine and a staunch atheist gave our lives to Jesus.
Saucy, I am not mocking you. I am just pointing out that the story you gave here is in no way comparable with mine as written in the OP.
I was a studied Creationist making arguments in online forums. By contrast, you describe yourself as a former teenager that was apathetic toward religion. That is not comparable.
In the OP, I describe how the magnitude of the facts I was up against gave me pause. You can only tell us that once you heard a voice talking to you about life and death, a voice that nobody else heard. I tend to doubt you actually heard a voice, but I, of course, don't know. I suspect that you are in an environment where it is socially advantageous to tell such stories, and so your story grew with each telling. If, on the other hand, your story is true, then I was not joking or mocking when I suggested seeing a doctor. Hearing voices in your head talking to you about death accompanied by months of mental trauma is a serious concern. I would see a doctor if it happened to me.
Overwhelming facts can and should be a reason to change one's opinion. Hearing voices in your head? Not so much.
So far we have seen nothing to validate your claim of you being a former studied atheist evolutionist. I asked for a source you relied on, and an argument you found convincing when you were an atheist. You gave neither. Could it be you did not respond because you never knew strong arguments for atheism or evolution (and hence were never a studied evolution defender)?
You speak as though the mere fact that you converted must be evidence that the faith and the creationism you adopted are real. That simply is not a valid argument. People convert for many reasons. In America, for instance, there is often strong social benefits to going with the crowd and adopting the majority religion. That does not prove that this religion is right.
You posted a link to a site that claims a failed Isochron dating in Austrailia. I am not familiar with this particular case, but I am well aware of Creationist attempts to discredit radiometric dating. They find a case where a measurement technique did not apply, and conclude that radiometric dating is never accurate. That is just silly.
That is like saying you put a garden thermometer in the oven and it did not tell you the correct temperature of the oven. Therefore, garden thermometers are useless. That simply does not follow. Finding instances where a garden thermometer does not work does not discredit other uses of that thermometer.
You posted a link with a supposed hole in the evolutionary viewpoint. Are you qualified to judge whether the argument the writer makes is valid? Lots of people can make arguments that fool uninformed people. That does not prove that what they wrote is science. Rather, they need to be able to convince those who do understand the science.
And I can assure you, the link you gave did not convince those who understand radiometric dating to abandon radiometric dating.
For more on why we judge radiometric dating to be reliable see
Radiometric Dating - A Christian Perspective .
(I don't much like the turtle one though)
