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older than we think. scientists simply guess at a number. but i dont think they Actually know.

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Carbon dating

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Dun wry its k

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XD i like how we have no hardcore chrsitians arguing, the earth is in the billie range fuckers

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Quote: from Lucid Nightmare at 10:16 am on July 11, 2009

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Quote: from icantthinkofaname at 10:15 am on July 11, 2009

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Does anyone really think it's 6000 years old?

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 Yes. I know someone who actually believes th Earth is only 6,000 years old.

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Could you do me a favor? Bitch slap this person, and tell them they are an idiot

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Already done. He says I'm the ignorant one, and he added that I'm going to Hell.

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Life starts now
Trust takes ages to build but only seconds to shatter
I wanna crawl back in

Occam's razor says its most likely bullshit but theoretically its possible.

Post edited at 4:21 pm on July 11, 2009 by Dexter Ward

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older than we think. scientists simply guess at a number. but i dont think they Actually know.

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Scientists just guess?! Then why do we see a converging line of evidence from many independently discovered dating methods?

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"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the
shoreline of wonder" (Ralph W. Sockman)

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Quote: from Emilybird at 10:55 am on July 11, 2009

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older than we think. scientists simply guess at a number. but i dont think they Actually know.

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Carbon dating

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Carbon dating is not used to date the earth, since it (1) it can only date organic material and (2) is not used to date objects older than around 50 000 years.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-age-of-earth.html

Try Rubidium-Strontium, Argon-Potassium, Samarium-neodymium, Uranium-Lead dating and many more. Not that all of these converge on the exact same result. If all of these where wrong, the probability of them all converging on a single result is so astronomically small that it is for all intents and purposes impossible.

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"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the
shoreline of wonder" (Ralph W. Sockman)

/end devil's advocate ie pretending I'm my dad.

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Bull its only 6000 years old god just made it seem older with the radioactive dating to test people's faith in him.

/end devil's advocate ie pretending I'm my dad.

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So you believe in an evil god then? But god is by definition all-good, so your idea self-destructs.

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"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the
shoreline of wonder" (Ralph W. Sockman)

It's amazing.

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And while the seagulls are crying,
We fall but our souls are flying.

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God isn't evil he just wants to be sure people have true faith in him, if he made it obvious the world was 6000 years old then people would almost always believe in him since it'd mean bible would be right, especially if written in a time where such technology didn't exist and that'd take away free will.

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So you think deception is morally good? Then why not make deceptive arguments now?

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"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the
shoreline of wonder" (Ralph W. Sockman)