So some astrophysicists studied several pieces of different?

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meteors and found them all to be around the same age..approx 4.6 billion years old. Why did they not consult the Creationists? They could have saved themselves from looking so foolish, since you cannot date something to be older than about 60,000 years! Duh!

Thanks, kc, I was wondering how long it would take before one of you Creationists tried to prove your point by trotting out the volcano story! Now tell everyone how if scientists were once wrong then they must be wrong about everything that doesn't fit into your tidy worldview! Ignore the millions of times they have correctly dated things. I'm sure those were flukes.

Todd, when I want to learn something scientific I can assure you I will not be visiting your pseudo-science creation webites. I will likely read a scientific journal, watch scientific programming, read scientific books, visit scientific websites, talk to actual scientists, etc. Watching videos on Google explaining how teaching Creationism will be good for science will only make my head hurt.

Betty, you are partially correct. I am being slightly sarcastic (kind of dripping with it), I am a high school dropout and I do not live in a trailer.

Aviator...I like others to make my point all the more clear. Thanks!

Answer 1

I am familiar with many of the sights in Todd's list... yep it would make your head hurt... truth often does. Probably over your head too. I have 5 years of University computers, science, chemistry, astronomy, networks design and some psychology for bird courses etc. and it is often hard for me to follow!

Here is another link if you actually are interested in science.
http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Creation_Update/

Answer 2

kc get a clue.

1. You don't carbon date pumice.
2. Carbon dating can't say anything is more than about 50000 years old.
3. You really shouldn't even attempt to use Potassium Argon dating on recent material ( less than 1000 years ) or the results will often be nonsense because the isotope populations have not had enough time to accumulate. You are actually measuring a ratio and small excess amounts of argon can then dominate that occurring by radioactive decay. But when applied on anything over 1000 years Potassium Argon dating will be very accurate. Imagine if you were trying to dermine the ratio of coin flip results. If you examine 10000 flipped coins you will get a far more accurate result that if you look at the result of 5 flipped coins. This should be obvious to anyone, yet creationists bring this up as if it were some huge surprise.

4. Creationist web sites should know all this but they lie repeatedly anyway.

5. Unfortunately people like you believe those lies because you don't know the first thing about the science involved.

Answer 3

I assume this is sarcasm. But yeah it is funny how in the same post that Creationists claim to know how old the earth is, they make ignorant comments about how the science of radiometric dating works. See above answers for examples.

Answer 4

Wow

Are you refering to C14 dating? There are dozens of dating methods. Lay off the creationist websites. Go to college.

EDIT: kc.. I looked into your volcano dating "issue"... and happened across stuff like this: http://www.answersincreation.org/blind.htm

Answer 5

Here if you want to learn some science start here...

http://www.reasons.org/
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-1680357583183645446
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8810338236054922062


Not enough faith to be an atheist
http://bookstore.fotf.ca/default.aspx?prodid=P00359B


P.S. Not visting... scared of learning something that won't fit into your prejudices? Science cannot find truth without being objective!

Even Prof, Antony Flew the former atheist (30+ years of speaking as an atheist) that had debated men such as C.S. Lewis recently said that the latest biological research "has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved. He only acknowledges there is a god (deist) but atleast he is willing to look for truth and is started in the right direction.

"Truth is absolute and knowable and must be searched for diligently, but many will try to hide it, deny it or muddy it." - Bia Leung.

Answer 6

Say what? I believe in the creation and have no time limit on the existence of things. Whether it be 60,000 years old or 4.6 billion, God used pre-existing elements to create the world. A little matter here, a little matter there, if utilized raw materials that already existed. matter is eternal, it exists in various forms and cannot be created nor destroyed.

Answer 7

If you actually believe that you are just uneducated. What are you a high school drop out? Do you live in a trailer?

Answer 8

That would involve them admiting that they don't have all the answers, and they don't know everything, and unfortunately, our human pride is very hard to swallow sometimes. But it is true, carbon dating is fairly inaccurate. When one of the volcanoes erupted in Hawaii in the 1980's (i believe), "scientists" carbon-dated the pumice to over 2.3 million years old. Even though it was fresh. Figure that one out....

Answer 9

Wow

I agree, you need to go to college.