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Author Topic:   Reliable Radiometric Dates as an Artifact of Assumptions
Percy
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Message 6 of 30 (589182)
10-31-2010 8:50 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by NoNukes
10-31-2010 12:57 AM


Re: Shuckin' and Jivin'
NoNukes writes:
The truth is that no scientist is doing work aimed at verifying or rejecting literal Bible dates using carbon or any other radiometric dating.
You might have meant to express this a bit differently? Radiocarbon dating does play a non-trivial role in dating Biblical sites and some types of artifacts, and these results are often used to argue the accuracy of Biblical accounts and chronologies.
--Percy

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Percy
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Message 10 of 30 (589396)
11-02-2010 7:55 AM
Reply to: Message 8 by Itinerant Lurker
11-01-2010 11:17 PM


Re: Thanks
This is clich, of course, but still worth asking: how do you expect to reason someone out of a position they never reasoned themselves into. The person you're discussing with isn't seeking knowledge, but protection from it.
--Percy

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Percy
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Message 24 of 30 (590135)
11-06-2010 8:41 AM
Reply to: Message 18 by Itinerant Lurker
11-05-2010 8:18 PM


Re: Parchance
Itinerant Lurker writes:
...it's now 72 pages long (1,068 posts) and the site admins are threatening to shut it down because it's becoming a server issue.
I wouldn't buy that reason if I were you. I followed the link you provided in Message 1, and they're running vBulletin, probably the most robust bulletin board software out there. While poor database design could cause performance issues in long threads, this is very unlikely with vBulletin. One of their claims to fame is their ability to handle huge bulletin boards with hundreds of forums, thousands of threads, and millions and millions of messages. So vBulletin is unlikely to be the problem.
Another potential source of the problem is database size restrictions imposed by their server. Do they periodically have to delete threads or archive them to HTML? I see that they do have some archives, but only for three of their many forums. I would be very surprised if database size restrictions were an issue because their bulletin board already has 1,343,932 messages as of this writing. The thousand messages in your thread is less than 0.1% of the total and couldn't possibly be a significant problem.
My bet is that their wanting to shut down the thread has nothing to do with server issues.
--Percy

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