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To: BenLurkin
“720 to 640 million years ago.” All articles that give dates such as these so blissfully and “authoritatively” are nonsense. Notice the basis for these time frames is never given, nor can be. It is based upon a “religious” faith, independent of science, one that has so many assumptions it refutes its own premise, boggling the mind to to those who see the false premise.
5 posted on 01/18/2016 9:23:45 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Fungi
It is based upon a “religious” faith, independent of science, one that has so many assumptions it refutes its own premise, boggling the mind to to those who see the false premise.

Say what?!?! What does that even mean?

24 posted on 01/19/2016 2:49:59 AM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel)
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Fungi: “Notice the basis for these time frames is never given, nor can be.
It is based upon a ‘religious faith’, independent of science, one that has so many assumptions it refutes its own premise, boggling the mind to to those who see the false premise. “

Total rubbish, there’s no “Religious faith” in natural-science, only the assumption that natural processes can have scientifically confirmable natural explanations.
In this particular example, it’s also assumed that natural processes operated the same in the deep past as they do today, so radioactive decay rates can tell us ages of various geological formations.
That’s where the estimates of “snow ball Earth” time periods come from.

Are such assumptions valid?
Well, they certainly seem to be, as more & more data from different sciences reconfirms, or falsifies, earlier conclusions.

Nothing “Religious faith” about it.


26 posted on 01/19/2016 3:54:53 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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