Posted on 07/03/2002 9:53:47 AM PDT by Tomalak
I suggest the question is "Who is responsible for this mess?" (units for the answer American Presidents).
Originally the word liberal meant social conservatives who advocated growth and progress---mostly technological(knowledge being absolute/unchanging)based on law--reality--UNDER GOD...the nature of GOD/man/govt. does not change. These were the Classical liberals...founding fathers-PRINCIPLES---stable/SANE scientific reality/society---industrial progress...moral/social character-values GROWTH!
Anti-Science...
Then came the post-modern age of switch-flip-spin-DEFORMITY-cancer...Atheist secular materialists through ATHEISM/evolution CHANGED-REMOVED the foundations...demolished the wall(separation of state/religion)--trampled the TRUTH-GOD...built a satanic temple over them---made these absolutes subordinate--relative and calling all the residuals---technology/science === evolution to substantiate/justify their efforts--claims...social engineering--PC--atheism...anti-God/Truth RELIGION--crusade/WAR--INTOLERANCE/TYRANNY against God--man--society!!
The larger and more gut-wrenching debate centers around the purpose of sapient life, for sentience itself is insufficient to explain the the nuance of thought.
One's first encounter with death as an observer is difficult enough to unhinge the weaker screws among us, but the extrapolation to our own inevitable crux is devastating eventually.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
By Dylan Thomas
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
"Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night."
"Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
"Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night."
"Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight "Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
"And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Dylan Thomas died at the age of 39.
Not a single one of us wants to go gentle into that goodnight, yet few of us fight against the fading of the light.
Our father on the height is not just a figurative term but the sum of all fathers back to the beginning of time; why must some people persist in rubbing our noses in the unchallengable fact that the basic curse of mankind is ignorance?
In Genesis it is written that the first sin was the arrogance of omniscience, it seems from these threads that it must always be so.
May the force be with you.
I never said that, nor do I believe that all religion is false, you just apply pi$$ poor logic. I just dont believe that everything has underlying religious, political or sexual overtones, sometimes a banana is just a banana.
It doesn't address the mind-boggling unliklihood of one teeny tiny insignicant nation like Israel giving the world BOTH it's most read, studied and written about book in History -- The Bible; AND ALSO giving the world it's most admired, written about, and talked about person in History -- Jesus Christ. BOTH coming from one little nation smaller in size than New Hampshire, smaller in population than Hong Kong.
The fact that the two were connected bu hundreds of written-in-advance prophesies pushes the statistical liklihood of these being coincidental, off the scale.
Additionaly, it is this same book, the Bible, that is in a head-on confrontation with evolution. A theory which is not only unproven, but coming apart at the seams more and more with each day.
Please refer to article: (site: id-archserve.ucsb.edu/Anth3/Courseware/Chronology/09_Potassium_Argon_Dating.html)
Chronological Methods 9 - Potassium-Argon Dating --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Potassium-Argon Dating Potassium-Argon dating is the only viable technique for dating very old archaeological materials. Geologists have used this method to date rocks as much as 4 billion years old. It is based on the fact that some of the radioactive isotope of Potassium, Potassium-40 (K-40) ,decays to the gas Argon as Argon-40 (Ar-40). By comparing the proportion of K-40 to Ar-40 in a sample of volcanic rock, and knowing the decay rate of K-40, the date that the rock formed can be determined.
How Does the Reaction Work?
Potassium (K) is one of the most abundant elements in the Earth's crust (2.4% by mass). One out of every 100 Potassium atoms is radioactive Potassium-40 (K-40). These each have 19 protons and 21 neutrons in their nucleus. If one of these protons is hit by a beta particle, it can be converted into a neutron. With 18 protons and 22 neutrons, the atom has become Argon-40 (Ar-40), an inert gas. For every 100 K-40 atoms that decay, 11 become Ar-40.
How is the Atomic Clock Set?
When rocks are heated to the melting point, any Ar-40 contained in them is released into the atmosphere. When the rock recrystallizes it becomes impermeable to gasses again. As the K-40 in the rock decays into Ar-40, the gas is trapped in the rock.
The Decay Profile
In this simulation, a unit of molten rock cools and crystallizes. The ratio of K-40 to Ar-40 is plotted. Note that time is expressed in millions of years on this graph, as opposed to thousands of years in the C-14 graph. Click on the "Show Movie" button below to view this animation. How are Samples Processed?
Clicking on the "Show Movie" button below will bring up an animation that illustrates how a K-Ar sample is processed and the calculations involved in arriving at a date. This is actually a mini-simulator, in that it processes a different sample each time and generates different dates.
K-Ar Processing
Limitations on K-Ar Dating
The Potassium-Argon dating method is an invaluable tool for those archaeologists and paleoanthropologists studying the earliest evidence for human evolution. As with any dating technique, there are some significant limitations.
The technique works well for almost any igneous or volcanic rock, provided that the rock gives no evidence of having gone through a heating-recrystallization process after its initial formation. For this reason, only trained geologists should collect the samples in the field.
This technique is most useful to archaeologists and paleoanthropologists when lava flows or volcanic tuffs form strata that overlie strata bearing the evidence of human activity. Dates obtained with this method then indicate that the archaeological materials cannot be younger than the tuff or lava stratum. Because the materials dated using this method are NOT the direct result of human activity, unlike radiocarbon dates for example, it is critical that the association between the igneous/volcanic beds being dated and the strata containing human evidence is very carefully established.
As the simulation of the processing of potassium-argon samples showed, the standard deviations for K-Ar dates are so large that resolution higher than about a million years is almost impossible to achieve. By comparison, radiocarbon dates seem almost as precise as a cesium clock! Potassium-argon dating is accurate from 4.3 billion years (the age of the Earth) to about 100,000 years before the present. At 100,000 years, only 0.0053% of the potassium-40 in a rock would have decayed to argon-40, pushing the limits of present detection devices. Eventually, potassium-argon dating may be able to provide dates as recent as 20,000 years before present. Links Geochron Laboratories
I suppose your Bible has proven that the universe was created in 6 days, that Adam & Eve were the first two humans, that woman was made from a man's rib, that dinosaurs existed during biblical times and that the earth is only approx 6,000 years old?
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