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Peepul
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Message 163 of 271 (560300)
05-14-2010 8:29 AM
Reply to: Message 156 by Buzsaw
05-13-2010 10:42 PM


Re: Reptiles and Dinosaurs
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If there was a flood, the same data would not necessarily calculate the same from a non-uniformative premise.
Buz, that is not correct.
A flood would have no effect on any fundamental physical process. Radioactive decay rates would be completely unaffected by it.
If you're saying that the flood could have affected the composition of all the rocks we can now study, then I don't believe there's any evidence to support you.
Even if it did, the isochron dating methods we often use can detect this.
So we can say for certain, based on our current understanding of physics, that the flood would not invalidate dating.

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Peepul
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Message 167 of 271 (560323)
05-14-2010 11:10 AM
Reply to: Message 166 by Buzsaw
05-14-2010 11:05 AM


Re: Reptiles and Dinosaurs
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You're repeating this falacy that my position implies a change in decay rates. Again, that is not my position.
Sorry, my mistake.
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our current understanding, which is solely relative uniformitarian.
I don't understand what you mean here. If we leave decay rates out of the picture, what uniformitarian assumptions are being made that you object to?

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