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Posted on 04/21/2014 8:26:43 AM PDT by fishtank
1) Assert that the Bible says the entire universe is only 6018 years old (It doesn’t, Archbishop Ussher said it does, but it doesn’t)
2) Ignore all evidence, whether it be the shear volume of rock above it, the clearly defined annual layers, the actual counts of tree rings, the matching strata, the ratios of radioactive elements to their daughter products, unless of course there is so little carbon 14 left that the technique can’t be used to date the sample, then insist that too old to date means the technique can’t be used on younger samples, and means that older samples are younger!
3) Assign a date that is less than 6018 years old.
4) Congratulate yourself on this stunning blow for God.
5) Gather a bunch of like minded individuals and tell each other how wise you all are.
6) Tell everybody else they’re going straight to Hell.
The only accurate way to date anything on the Earth is to count all the begets in the Bible,
every good creationist knows that,
why do atheistic science classes waste kids time teaching them about atom’s and molecules and the speed of light???
Those fanged ideas come from straight the devil...
All they need to know is the begets.
My mistake, its a creationist poster here.
Add up the begets then assign a time period for each beget that adds up to the desired earth age.
All our kids need to know is rithmatic just like the Lil Rascals learned in theire schoolhouse by Mrs Craptree, not the devils lessons in modern science.
The Daohugou fossil fields present complex dating problems due to the faulting and folding of the rocks containing the fossils. This results in some cases in older fossils being “ on top” of younger fossils. However, radiometric dating is being used to sort this puzzle out. The time ranges are from 120 mya to 170 mya. However, the dating problems are found in the structural geology of the formation along with sampling protocol.
It is obvious that some species are longer lived than others which may present problems in dating. Trilobites were a extremely successful creature but all disappeared with the Permian Extinction. Thus, if you have rock with trilobite fossils, you can be fairly certain the rocks are 250+ mya. The potential exception comes when those fossils become incased in younger rock by erosion, faulting or volcanic means. That is one of many reasons radiometric dating in combination with good geologic examination of the formation being sampled is important.
Straw men again dominate the creationist argument. Science isn’t easy and false conclusions are frequent which is why peer review and reexamination with newer tools is important. In this case though the science has been refined and paradoxes resolved. Science doesn’t have written instructions guiding and determining its conclusions.
Wow! I had no idea scientists were there 65 million years ago and witnessed the t-rex’s death. Impressive!
They were obviously “begging the question.” The 65 million years is religious dogma, unshakable faith, so anything that comes along which doesn’t make logical sense must be somehow incorporated into that faith. Rather than question the 65 million years that the gelatinous heme must have survived, which would have been logical, they instead illogically declare that it could survive 65 million years. Tremendous faith!
The existence of this heme appears to be “contradictory evidence” on its face, that calls into question the 65 million year time line.
Slick wants to know if a fossil is anything like a mummy.
Beat me to it.
See, I did read the thread for once...
5.56mm
The age of things is not determined that way as it is not a known, predictable variable.
“Why whattaya know! Dead men DO bleed”
(What a patient who was convinced he was dead said when the doctor pricked his finger.)
Heck, I didn't even know that all those people who say OJ Simpson is guilty were actually there at the crime scene. I guess you learn something new every day.
You missed one. Send checks payable to list maker needs inserted somewhere.
Caricature
Timbers. Motes.
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““Why whattaya know! Dead men DO bleed”
(What a patient who was convinced he was dead said when the doctor pricked his finger.)”
I have no idea what you are attempting to convey with this cryptic message. This a coded spy message? “Ducks fly at midnight.”
You can start by refusing to take their calls...
You know, some of us have just finished lunch...
As far as the corporate accountant knows, that girl is Jane Smith, his long lost ‘Niece’, and he’s helping her with Miscellaneous Expenses and Various and Sundry Services Rendered. Jane never itemizes her Invoices, (too boring), she just shows the total amounts spent (so far). It’s what we used to call A Gentleman’s Agreement.
Even that accuracy is largely illusory. All those begets add up very differently in the Septuagint, the Peshitta, and the Masoretic texts.
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