For our atheistic evolutionist friends. Explain Polonium Haloes if God didn't make them?

Question

Granite is the rock below sedimentary rock. It reaches down at least 12 miles.

There are two properties of granite that are extremely interesting
a) If one melts Granite, and then cools it, it becomes another type of rock. Granite cannot come from a molten state. According to evolution the world was molten for millions of years. How did Granite form?

b) In all granite there are what are called Polonium Halos. There are trillions of these halos found in all granite. Polonium is a radioactive element. When the Polonium decays into a more stable element it gives off a burst of energy that produces the Halo. Now the Polonium must have been in the granite before the granite solidified, or the halos would not be present. Here is the problem. Polonium has an extremely short half-life. All isotopes decay in less than 36 hours. This means that all the world's granite was formed in less than a day. How could this happen without God?

Answer 1

I don't know - never taken a geology course. You could ask in the geology forum.

Of course, just because I don't know doesn't mean no one does. And even if no one knows yet, that's still not evidence for a supernatural influence, much less any specific god. I'm sure they will figure it out.

Also? Geology? Not evolution. Not related in the least.

EDIT: Here you go. Wow, just typing 'polonium halos' into google - your first answer explains it! Why didn't you just try that? Or was it because you knew you were wrong, and didn't want us to know?

Answer 2

a) What sort of test came up with these results? Obviously you don't just need to melt it, you need to melt it to the right temperature and then cool it at the right rate under the right pressure. And even then, it would be possible that the result has to go through some sort of chemical change afterwards before it becomes granite (although I doubt this is actually case). I don't see how this invalidates evolution.

b) ??? You don't seem to know what you're talking about. You can't just say 'all isotopes decay in less than 36 hours'; they have certain half-lives, and a few out of those 923074523984 or whatever atoms will, chances are, last for millions of years. Additionally, you seem to have ignored the facts that one, the interior of the Earth is more radioactive than the crust and can push up radioactive material, and two, the free particles ejected when an element decays can hit other atoms and form new radioactive elements, so it takes longer for the overall radioactivity to decay than it does for each individual radioactive atom.

Answer 3

Oh again and again... if aliens were listening to us right now I bet they must be laughing. Do you know how old your question is? Its as old as when man started trying to explain what the sun is. Its as old as when man started trying to explain why a volcano is about to explode. Its as old as when man started trying to explain why, if the earth is the center of the universe, do the paths of the other planets look as if they (and the earth) are revolving around the sun.

As science sheds light on subjects, there seems to be less and less facts that people need the bible to explain natural events for. Do you remember that russion cosmonaut (the first man in space) and how silly he sounded when he claimed "I have been to heaven and seen that God is not there."? If you are a believer, you probably would have said that's not proof tha God doesn't exist. Right?

In the same way, when scientist can explain your halos (if there isn't an explanation already), that doesn't mean that God doesn't exist!? Agree? You should, otherwise you have only a conditional faith in God. Which is a no-no for Christians.

Science has one great advantage over religion that allows it to evolve at a much faster rate. It knows what the things are that it does not know. So it makes an effort to find the answer. Whereas religion, it took several years to realize that Copernicus and Galileo was right. Because it thought they already had the answer, which they enforce only with the threat of heresy.

Answer 4

a) Granite is an igneous rock, formed when molten magma intrudes upon another rock formation. It comes from an admixture of molten and solid phases. It was first formed after a rocky crust began to float on the molten Earth. No mystery here.

b)
208Po half-life: 2.898y
209Po half-life: 103y
210Po half-life: 138d

All longer that 36 hours. Lie detected and rejected.

Further, polonium-214 is produced in the decay series of uranium-238 (half-life: 4.5 billion years), polonium-211 is produced in the decay series of uranium-235 (half-life: 700 million years), and polonium-216 is produced in the decay series of thorium-232 (half-life: 14 billion years). That's where the polonium comes from. Ask a loaded question, get an honest answer.

Answer 5

In fact, as science explains more and more about the "big bang," even scientists comment that this "expansion" of energy and mass cannot be possible without intervention from a higher being. The expansion is equal outward, like a plate, in shape, instead of going out in all directions. By expanding like a plate, it wll expand forever. As an explosion, it would eventually reverse and go back into the single object everything started from.

What science does say is; the bible is not 100% correct in everything that is said. Men, living a long time ago, wrote the bible. They wrote what they knew about the world, then. We know more now, so the information changes. For example; the world did NOT form in a day. We know that now...

Science and religion can share the same table. But religion is based on FEAR so any talk of any discovery is met with hysteria.

Answer 6

well, A is easy, B is based on a false assumption.

A) **** eroded off of the freshly cooled earth, other **** piled on top of it, compressed, hello Mr (I'm a moron). Actually something of a continuous process.

Edit: That's sedimentary rock, this is what happens when you haven't' taken a course in nearly a decade and then use it again.

B) Nothing says it had to be there before, it's entirely possible it formed under the pressure and conditions which are still effecting the granite.

Answer 7

See Acid Zebra, a-the-ists answer. study the link which debunks a lot of creationist technological knowledge. that's why you would possibly want to not blindly settle for what creationist scientists say with out checking the broader pool of information and critic first. technological knowledge isn't blind faith like faith. that is extra rigorous than that.

Answer 8

Yes, I agree....you do live in a magical fantasy world

For crying out loud. Have you ever seen, say, a petrified tree? A freakin tree can basically turn into stone. Apparently granite came from something and doesn't mean some magical deity did it. Eesh.

Answer 9

You are an idiot, have you ever heard that in nature elements sometimes randomly transmutate? Especially radioactive ones?Your polonium halos are produced by unstable elements, nothing more.

Answer 10

I think that the polonium haloes are an early expression of the toasty O's. Praise be the oaty goodness!

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