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You see, Mark was talking about the heat of only a few thousand years. He meant that if the heat of the (alleged) accelerated radioactive decay could make it look as though radiometric dating were off by 70 million years, then that would be so much heat that the whole planet would be cooked
Ahh. OK. But I never envisioned any accelerated radioactive decay at all! If anything, I was saying that how much could happen in only a few thoudand years? (at current rates). I tried to open up a dating thread, but they've held it up at the pass, and won't let it out of propsed topics. So it is difficult to really get into it on a blood and tissue thread. But in a phrase, the isotpes we now see, in their various proportions to each other, were produced, according to my current reasoning of the split, while in the middle of a non decay process! When the split came, the process became a decay process, and whatever was happening no longer is happening. An over simplified analogy might be an escalator. Someone flipped the switch, and it started to go down, instead of up. So measuring how many rungs are coming down how quickly now, and extrapolating that into the far past, beyond even when the escalator was built is of no real value beyond the point it was switched!
So I see no burning of the planet anywhere there. The heat that I noticed they used to base the test on, made me ask about how heat might have affected the results. What kind of heat did I mean? Well, It was a mostly tropical world pre flood, I thought we might have a little more heat to work with. Also, the violence of the flood year, and volcanoes, water shooting up from fountains of the deep etc. More heat to work with. And, lastly, people like walt brown envision some type of violent plate movement, near the flood time, which again, depending on the circumstances, and degree, would provide lots of heat as well. You can see why this stuff is too big to be a sudeline in a dino thread.
Anyhow thanks for the mediation. A little detente always helps keep things civilized.