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Message 796 of 1498 (840755)
10-04-2018 12:32 AM
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10-03-2018 12:40 PM


Re: And now some questions on past times
Easy. When you assume slow deposition or growth for several items, naturally you get old ages.

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Message 797 of 1498 (840756)
10-04-2018 12:33 AM
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10-03-2018 12:36 PM


Re: And now some questions on past times
I heard about 4500 but there is room for interpretive difference.

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Message 798 of 1498 (840764)
10-04-2018 3:54 AM
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10-04-2018 12:33 AM


Re: And now some questions on past times
creation writes:
I heard about 4500 but there is room for interpretive difference.
So all we have to do is demonstrate how the world is older than 6,000 years and/or that there are organisms and civilisations older than the flood.
This is a science thread that deals with earth's age and how different and independent methods demonstrate beyond all doubt that the earth is older than 6,000 yeras. It just deals with simple things that we can physically count. There are many other methods that also prove the same thing - from physics, astronomy, archaeology etc - but these are the really easy ones to understand.
Because these things are not related to each other an error in one can't create an error in another. Yet they all confirm each other. This is what RAZD says at the begnning of the thread. It's your job now to explain why each of these methods are not only wrong but how they can all be wrong but still agree with each other. This is called consilience, where different and independent methods all confirm a common result. It's a very, very high standard of science.
It requires more than your usual two line dismissive response; it's a serious piece of scientific work. (His original post contains links to each claim which you will need to read, it's all at post 1.)
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For anybody unclear on the concept, this is how it stacks up - there are a number of different ways that annual sequences can be counted, ones that do not rely on radioactivity or rocket science to understand:
Bristlecone Pines - The minimum age of the earth is 8,000 years by annual tree rings in California.
European Oaks - The minimum age of the earth is 10,434 years by annual tree rings in Europe (different environment, different genus, not just different species and from two different locations ).
German Pines - The minimum age of the earth is 12,405 years by adding more annual tree rings in Europe (different environment and species), confirmed by carbon-14 levels in the samples (different information from the same sources).
Lake Suigetsu Varves - The minimum age of the earth is 35,987 years by annual varve layers of diatoms in Japan (different process, biology and location).
Annual Layers of Ice - The minimum age of the earth is 40,000 years by annual layers of ice in China (different process altogether).
Ice Cores in Greenland - The minimum age of the earth is 37,957 years by visually counting layers, 60,000 years by counting dust layers, 110,000 years by measuring electrical conductivity of layers, and up to 250,000 years by counting of layers below a discontinuity, all counting annual layers of ice in Greenland (different location).
Ice Cores in Antarctica - The minimum age of the earth is 422,776 years by annual layers of ice in the Vostok Ice Core, extended to 740,000 years with the EPICA Ice Core with an estimated final depth age of 900,000 years. (different location again).
The Devil's Hole - The radiometric age of the earth is validated to 567,700 years by annual deposition of calcite in Nevada and correlation to the annual ice core data
Talking Coral Heads - The minimum radiometric age of the earth is of coral is >400,000,000 years by radiometric age correlated with the astrono-physics predicted length of the day correlated with the daily growth rings in ancient coral heads. (different location, different environment, different methods).
Discussion of Radiometric Correlations - the radiometric dates for a number of specific events show a consistent accuracy to the methods used, and an age for the earth of ~4,500,000,000 years old.
The Bottom Line - the bottom line is that the valid scientific age for the earth is ~4,500,000,000 years old.

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Message 799 of 1498 (840792)
10-04-2018 12:11 PM
Reply to: Message 796 by creation
10-04-2018 12:32 AM


Re: And now some questions on past times
creation writes:
Easy. When you assume slow deposition or growth for several items, naturally you get old ages.
We can see lake varves forming. We can see ice layers forming. We can count them as they form. There is no assumption about the deposition rate.
And what do tree rings have to do with deposition rates? They're completely independent of lake varves and ice layers - and lake varves are completely independent of ice layers. So why do they give the same answers?
You should think before you try to give "easy" answers. Scientists have put in thousands of hours studying these things. A schoolboy is not going to refute them with "easy" answers.

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Message 800 of 1498 (840844)
10-04-2018 4:30 PM
Reply to: Message 799 by ringo
10-04-2018 12:11 PM


Re: And now some questions on past times
And what do tree rings have to do with deposition rates? They're completely independent of lake varves and ice layers - and lake varves are completely independent of ice layers. So why do they give the same answers?
Not to mention U-Th disequilibrium dating of speleothems. Obviously far beyond his comprehension.
Extremely Large Variations of Atmospheric 14C Concentration During the Last Glacial Period. It's part of the latest INTCAL calibration curve.
Uranium—thorium dating
Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

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Message 801 of 1498 (840849)
10-04-2018 6:03 PM
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10-04-2018 12:11 PM


Re: And now some questions on past times
Yes, as we can watch trees grow. Too bad for you that has absolutely zero to do with how layers were deposited or trees grew in the former nature.

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Message 802 of 1498 (840850)
10-04-2018 6:05 PM
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10-04-2018 4:30 PM


Re: And now some questions on past times
Don't flatter yourself. If you want to introduce a claim that present decay and rates etc existed in the past, then get to er. Did you think you could get by with simply assuming they did?

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creation
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Message 803 of 1498 (840851)
10-04-2018 6:07 PM
Reply to: Message 798 by Tangle
10-04-2018 3:54 AM


Re: And now some questions on past times
Name ANY of those methods that is not based on belief that nature was the same in the past. Then we can talk. You can't. They all are. This means you have religion.

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Message 804 of 1498 (840855)
10-04-2018 6:17 PM
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10-04-2018 3:54 AM


Re: And now some questions on past times
You cannot show any civilization older. The ONLY way you do that is with religious belief based same state past assuming decay dating. Gong.
Or would you like to resort to the king lists for dating!!!? Ha.

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Message 805 of 1498 (840882)
10-05-2018 2:49 AM
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10-04-2018 6:07 PM


Re: And now some questions on past times
creation writes:
Name ANY of those methods that is not based on belief that nature was the same in the past. Then we can talk. You can't. They all are.
We know that a year has lasted about 365 days since man started keeping records. That's several thousand years. So for some unexplained and unevidenced reason you think that time changed somewhere around 3,000 years ago?
That would mean that day length in the remaining 3,000 years would need to last millions of years. The consequences of that on biology are unimaginable. But to just name a couple, there would be huge and detectable changes to tree rings and ice layers. In fact there would be only one ring and one ice layer before the change and they would be enormous and unmissable. But they don't exist.
And in any case radiometric dating methods are unaffected by day length or time changes. It decays at a set rate regardless.

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creation
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Message 806 of 1498 (840900)
10-05-2018 11:51 AM
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10-05-2018 2:49 AM


Re: And now some questions on past times
Man has not kept records very long. In fact, there seems to be no reason to assume that man even had any need to write at all in that pre flood/nature change world. I suspect that the need to communicate via written form arose after the time of the tower of Babel.
Babel happens to be the likely time of the nature change. The nature change would have happened in the days of Peleg, and, if I recall, I think Peleg was about 5 years old at the time of Babel.

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Message 807 of 1498 (840903)
10-05-2018 11:57 AM
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10-05-2018 11:51 AM


Re: And now some questions on past times
creation writes:
Man has not kept records very long. In fact, there seems to be no reason to assume that man even had any need to write at all in that pre flood/nature change world. I suspect that the need to communicate via written form arose after the time of the tower of Babel.
So let me get this straight, when 4,500 years ago, it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, how long where those datys and nights?

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Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
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Message 808 of 1498 (840910)
10-05-2018 12:06 PM
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10-05-2018 11:57 AM


Re: And now some questions on past times
Roughly the same as now. However apparently a year was 360 days so I guess there was some little difference.

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Message 809 of 1498 (840913)
10-05-2018 12:16 PM
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10-04-2018 6:03 PM


Re: And now some questions on past times
creation writes:
Yes, as we can watch trees grow. Too bad for you that has absolutely zero to do with how layers were deposited or trees grew in the former nature.
There is no evidence of a "former nature". You can't just make things up to suit your beliefs.

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Message 810 of 1498 (840922)
10-05-2018 1:15 PM
Reply to: Message 808 by creation
10-05-2018 12:06 PM


Re: And now some questions on past times
However apparently a year was 360 days so I guess there was some little difference.
What is your source for that utterly false and ridiculous supposition? Seriously, which creationist was it who made that up and what did he claim as his source? (Typically, creationists will claim a scientific source as their own source, when actually they just took the claim directly from another creationist, claimed scientific source and all, while deliberately lying about what their source was.)
The year has never ever been 360 days long, but it will be some time in the future. The earth's rotation is slowing down on the whole, currently at an average rate of about 2 milliseconds per day per century. Hence the earth had a more rapid rotation in the past and will have a slower rotation in the future. A more rapid rotation would mean more days in a year, not fewer as you just claimed; eg, around 400 million years ago there would have been about 400 days in each year as verified by the varves in Devonian fossil coral reefs.
So what is your source for that ridiculous false claim and why did you allow yourself to be deceived by it?

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