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TrueCreation
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Message 6 of 21 (9087)
04-28-2002 11:09 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by ksc
04-28-2002 10:31 PM


--I can agree with both ksc and Percipient in some areas regarding fossil deposition. ksc isn't going to get too far if his argument were to be as vague as he put it, though he has a point (though some-what vague still).
--Percipient would however be incorrect to say that 'modern' forms are less found with increasing depth. This technically would only be true if infact uniformitarian deposition were allready true, so you cannot place a circular argument on the issue. Scorpions for instance are found virtually unchanged in the fossil record in 420 million year sediment deposits (on the uniformitarian scale). He is also relatively correct that radionucleic dating within its assumptions will give older dates as you increase in sedimentary depth (daughter isotopes are found in higher quantities, that is for Parent/Daughter isotopic ratio's). Paleontology and fossil deposition isn't my favorite topic within the argument for the Flood, I am more into Flood Mechanics. However, some of my studies on radioisotopic dating seemingly is beginning to propel my thinking on radioisotopes. I am haveing some thought on radioitosopic deposition within lithophilic elements, or something along that line.
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Message 11 of 21 (9116)
04-29-2002 7:31 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by Percy
04-29-2002 12:10 AM


"On the contrary, increasing difference from modern forms with increasing depth is precisely what we find. This is the primary reason that many years before Darwin formulated his theory it was already realized that life had evolved over time."
--Excuse me percy, yes I was incorrect in saying this in this mannor. Infact after I realized the flaw and thinking about it after a while, I would expect it to be along this line. 'simpler' forms are more prone to change and adaption through natural selection from more factors vulnerable than other forms such as isolating populations. However I would be interested in seeing more information on these differences, I am not too much into zoology and paleontology, though it does interest me a bit.
"Your statements don't seem to reflect the understanding of someone who has read 10 geology books."
--Geology incorperates some paleontology, however not at all as much as the the actual field of paleontology, I am more into the studies in Geologic mechanics and lithospheric dynamics (plate tectonics)along with various sedimentary and rock formations. So I would be more prone to display a higher lack of knowledge in paleontology rather than geology.
"The lifetime of some species is short, of others is long. Some species have existed virtually unchanged for over hundred million years, while others have made only a brief appearance, flitting into existence through speciation and out again through extinction in only a geological instant."
--This is a simple factoid I took into account in my thoughts for my first comment.
"Radiometric dating has been explained to you several times now, so I don't understand why you're still raising the same simplistic objections."
--I had not displayed objections in my post?
"Dating methods have not only been cross-confirmed literally thousands of time, but the isochron methods render the daughter isotope issue moot. Not only that, but despite all the potential problems of the early dating techniques that Creationists love to cite, such as for U/Pb, the dates of the highly accurate modern methods broadly confirm those of the supposedly inaccurate earlier approaches."
--I don't think it would be wise for me to cite my objections untill I have more information on radioisotopic dating.
"I have no idea what this means, and I don't think you do, either."
--I do know what I am talking about. A lithophilic element is pertaining to elements that tend to become concentrated in the silicate phase of meteorites or the crustal rocks of the earth. Something that is of study in the realm of the distribution of radioactive isotopes in the earth and some Geochemistry. I do believe the rest is self-explanitory when I say 'radioisotopic deposition within lithophilic elements, or something along that line'.
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Message 12 of 21 (9117)
04-29-2002 7:34 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by Mister Pamboli
04-29-2002 12:56 AM


"BTW, Percy did not create a circular argument but dates the ages of these forms with radiometric dating. I know you don't trust radiometric dating, but that really is up to you. Percy's argument is perfectly sound, unless radiometric dating is wrong, but that is a different issue on which you have failed to make noticeable progress elsewhere in the forum."
--This was not a statement regarding radioisotopes, I stated that 'This technically would only be true if infact uniformitarian deposition were allready true, so you cannot place a circular argument on the issue'. As for your first paragraph, see my last post to percy.
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TrueCreation
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Message 19 of 21 (9205)
05-04-2002 12:50 AM
Reply to: Message 13 by Percy
04-29-2002 11:53 PM


"Fossils in the geologic column increasingly differ from modern forms with increasing depth."
--Yes they do.
"The geologic column is a record of change over time. It shows species passing into and out of existence."
--technically it is actually a record of change over depth, however, you can logically apply the concept of 'time' in the sense of a linear depth of strata. How much time is another question.
"Some persist in the geologic record for long periods, some for short. Deflecting discussion with a "like to see more information" type of comment is evasive."
--I wouldn't think so, I would rather see it as a need for information before a conclusion would be met. If I were to make conclusions without data, that would be a bit ignorant of me. I might as well make the statement rather than avoid it.
"The amount of information available in the early 1800s was sufficient for students of nature to conclude evolution had happened - no more is necessary."
--In your opinion and interpretation.
"A map of the entire United States will tell you that New York and San Francisco are about 3000 miles apart. Your hope that more detail will reveal the earth is really only 10,000 years old is like hoping that detailed examination of roadmaps for the individual states will reveal that San Francisco and New York are actually both in Manhattan."
--I don't think your mathematical analogy is very well applied to the question. Simply because we dont' have a 'road map'. What you actually have is a 'map' with no mileage scale to go by, so in a sense, New York and San Francisco could actually be right there in analogy.
"Just as a map of the entire country is more than sufficient for a solid estimate of the distance between New York and San Francisco, what you already know about fossils, geologic layers and radiometric dating is more than sufficient to understand that the earth is a very ancient place."
--I would highly disagree here, it is righly necessary to know much more than a straw-man on how radiometric dating works, geologic layers (on a uniformitarian basis) are deposited, as well as fossil deposition. Radiometric dating, I would highly recommend to anyone interested in using this argument to understand the geological, mineralogical, and geochemical context of rock and constituent mineral samples. Geochemical processes in the earth's mantle and crust must be understood, as the rocks and their constituent minerals which are dated ultimately have their source in the mantle and/or are generated in the crust and reside there.
"The sedimentary layers you mention are named for the periods of life contained within them: Pre-Cambrian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, etc. Our understanding of the geologic and fossil information in the layers developed simultaneously. Even Creationism recognizes this when they mistakenly claim that dating is circular (the layer tells what life will be found there, the life found there tells what layer it is). You can't possibly have read 10 geology books without knowing the intimate relationship between the fossil record and the geologic column of sedimentary layers."
--I do understand this reasoning for sedimentary chronology. However, unlike a paleontologist, fossils and the study of the fossils themselves is not as apparent in the various fields in geology such as the ones that I will study more in detail.
"Unless this translates as "I was wrong" or "I spoke without thinking", I have no idea what this means."
--What I mean is that what you stated is what I was having thoughts on in order to compile my comment.
"Are you asking if you posted messages in response? Or are you asking if you addressed the issues? If the latter, then no, you haven't."
--Right, it was a simple comment.
"You not only didn't address them, you didn't even indicate an understanding of them."
--This (I [Corrected by edit - 5/4/02]) seriously doubt.
"Every geology book includes a discussion of radiometric dating. This is yet another indicator lending me doubt that you've read any."
--Though this is not where I had gotten my knowledge on radionucleic decay, yes, just about every geology text-book will have a discussion on radiometric dating, however with the exception of one I find it odd they do not include fundamental pieces of information, it is simply a review or a breif overview. Such as alpha and beta decay, or mineral isochrons and whole-rock isochrons, neither had they even made mention to the well known phenomena in the field of excess A-40.
"This statement isn't consistent with your just previous question, "I had not displayed objections in my post?" If you don't think you know enough to address the issues now, then obviously you couldn't have addressed them in earlier messages."
--It was merely a comment, and a comment that in-fact was addressing what I am currently interested in and is something I am researching. This is consistent simply because when I said that It would be wise for me not to cite objections, it is consistent to say that 'I had not displayed objections in my post'.
"Someone who feels constantly called upon to claim that he does *to* know what he's talking about is in need of some serious self examination."
--Maybe so.
"Look, TC, everyone, including me, likes you and likes that you're here,"
--I am glad to hear it, in my experience this is a significantly rare occurrence (for YEC's [Corrected by edit - 5/4/02]).
"but that doesn't change the fact that you're transparently pretending you know and understand far more than you do. The act was fun for a while, but it's getting old and wearing thin."
--This may be what it seems at times, I do believe it may be due to the way I address issues. I address them with in the least a considerable understanding of the question. However, I am always open to new scientific information so I am not afraid to engage in debate with something I may not have as much knowledge in as the opponent, simply because I will learn it and it is a time for more research. Sometimes I may take this for granted and end up getting smacked a couple times, though again, it forces me to do the research, get the data, and form a model, and make conclusions.
"I have no idea what this means, and I don't think you do, either."
--What part done you understand? (please don't just say 'all of it')
"A lithophilic element is simply an element found in the lithosphere. That's pretty much all naturally occurring elements."
--No, I must say this may be a bit misleading. A lithophilic element is as I stated, 'pertaining to elements that tend to become concentrated in the silicate phase of meteorites or the crustal rocks of the earth', a definition drawn by Baumgardner. And if I must verify this as correct:
Glossary of Geology and Related Sciences - American Geological Institute;
quote:
Lithophile elements. Elements enriched in the silicate crust. Elements with a greater free energy of oxidation, per gram atom of oxygen, than iron; they concentrate in the stony matter or slag crust of the earth, as oxides and more often as oxysalts especially silicates.
--So it isn't an element that is 'simply an element found in the lithosphere', but one that tends to concentrate here, contrary to a Siderophile element.
"It has nothing specifically to do with radioactive isotopes at all."
--It may be important to note that all the major radioactive heat producing elements (U, Th, and K) are in this incompatible category. Most of the radioactive elements used as isotopic tracers and for dating purposes (such as Sm, Rb, Lu, K, U, and Th) are in this category as well. As a geochemist or Geophysicist studies the mechanical and chemical processes occurring at the mid-ocean ridges and subduction zones, a strong case emerges that the continental crust was the product of chemical fractionation of the rock that comprises at least the upper third, and perhaps even more, of the earth's mantle. This topic has a large amount of significance on the distribution of radioactive elements in the earth as a whole.
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[This message has been edited by TrueCreation, 05-04-2002]

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TrueCreation
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Message 21 of 21 (9404)
05-08-2002 6:14 PM
Reply to: Message 20 by edge
05-04-2002 12:37 PM


"I agree emphatically. Are you going to do this soon?"
--I might be able to contain some smaller arguments, more specific that is. Though it may take months for me to understand a nicely done complete model in the geochemistry, and maybe longer to get the nuclear and sub nuclear physics for some theoretical concept such as accelerated nuclear decay, whatever I will end up using as my argument.
"What are you saying here?"
--I stated that I understand the reasoning behind sedimentary chronology, though percipient stated that I did not and attempted to explain some fundamentals to it, which I already knew.
--As for the latter sentence. I stated that basically a paleontologist studies fossils directly and more in-depth, while a geochemist, or geophysicist may have very little to do with fossils.
"So, where did you get your education on radiometric dating?"
--Some physics from:
Nuclei and particles - an introduction to nuclear and sub nuclear physics.
--An in-depth study from:
Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth
--And about 2 other mainstream books on radioactive decay which I no longer have(library check-outs) and remember the titles to(one was more focused on U235 & U238, the other on K40. Though they both contained general radioisotope information).
"As to the details of radiometric dating, many may not be appropriate to a general textbook. Despite what you may have learned this is a highly technical field."
--I would certainly agree, the more I read on the subject the more it seems there is.
"So then there may be a REASON that the original quantity of these elements in common minerals can be assumed? You may be on to something here, TC."
--Well yes, and no. Because it is the geochemistry which shows all or part the reason radioisotopes are concentrated in the way that they are. This for instance, is why U-Pb dating has been seriously invalidated quite significantly in the field of radioisotope dating.
"It also has significance in determining the age of the earth. "
--It very much does.
"You mean there are systematics in determining the original distribution of radioactive elements?"
--Yes if you can, followed with some assumptions it is 'possible', though unlikely that you can figure initial quantities. Most all dating methods will assume initial quantities of zero unless anomalous dates are found, then they will compromise.
"Maybe you need to talk to your fellow creationists a little more on this. By the way, how long do you think it took to form the crust and then augment it by continued fractionation?"
--Personally, I couldn't say, this depends on very many conditions, most specifically the viscosity of the mantle (thus convection rates), and the presence of water. A creationist source of mine says that they can put it all into 3 days. Mighty strong assertion there! As to their support I have more to read.
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[This message has been edited by TrueCreation, 05-08-2002]

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