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wj
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Message 89 of 221 (11553)
06-14-2002 1:09 AM
Reply to: Message 86 by Tranquility Base
06-13-2002 9:05 PM


So, now all the universal physical constants are up for grabs!!
The speed of light has changed (slowed orders of magnitude) based on some error-ridden work by Barry Setterfield which has never been subjected to peer review. So radioactive decay rates have changed over time (10,000 years)and this caused the global flood. Pity data from supernova SN1987A contradicts such fantasies.
Simple observation and geometry allowed the distance of SN1987A to be calculated at about 170,000 light years distant. Spectral analysis found the same decay rates for cobalt-56 and cobalt-57 as measured on earth today. Simple explanation is that their decay rates haven't changed in 170,000 years. The creationist explanation is that light was travelling an average 17 times faster in the past 10,000 years to give the illusion that SN1987A is so far away, the cobalt spectra shifted during transit so that it exactly matches current earth-bound spectra, something initiated a huge increase in radio-decay rates about 4,500 years ago and caused a global flood, all radioisotopes with shortish half-lifes were exhausted whilst the longer lived isotopes were progressively decayed from the centre of the earth outwards.
It seems that creationists prefer to rewrite all of science and history simply to make it agree with their particular interpretations of the bible. No, TB, it isn't anything like science.
BTW, I thought creationists were saying that there was too little helium for the earth to be old?!

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