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Post by Sandy Pines on Apr 24, 2010 11:53:39 GMT -5
On average scientists say that it takes human skeletons 40 to 50 years to fully decay into nothing. Of course this depends on if the skeleton is on top of the ground, buried underground, climate, weather, etc. The same approximation of years is also given for most animal skeletons. Except dinosaurs. What makes scientists believe that only dinosaur bones can last for millions and millions upon millions of years without fully decomposing into dust? It seems to me that scientists use these numbers just to try and 'prove' their theory of 'old earth'.
What are your ideas?
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Post by thebandit on Apr 26, 2010 15:03:25 GMT -5
Scientists attempt to prove their evolutionary theories with foolish examples like the one pointed out above. (Which is an excellent one, Sandy Pines.) ;D
Another example is the existence of comets. As the solar system is supposed to be billions of years old, it is impossible to explain why comets still exist. For, as a periodic comet approaches the sun in its orbit, it grows a long tail because of the heat of the sun. Each time a comet forms a tail, it loses part of itself, as the tail contains either gases, dust, or both. In some comets, they split from the great power of the sun, and thus become meteors. Comets, overall, are delicate and cannot endure for a long amount of time. Most scientist agree that comets last for hundreds to thousands of years at the most. Meteors fall into the earth's atmostphere and because of its heat, dissolve, except for a few rare exceptions that have reached the earth's surface. Therefore, if the earth is SO old, then why do comets still orbit the sun?
The most popular theory defending evolution is that there is a "storehouse" beyond Pluto's orbit that replenishes comets. Some scientist believe that there is one just beyond Saturn's orbit, also. Wishful thinking, but this is a fanciful idea, considering that these "storehouses" are invisible to us and does not agree with the evolutionary theory that well.
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Post by Krashings on Apr 27, 2010 16:37:32 GMT -5
The sun is one of countless numbers of stars in our galaxy. The galaxy is over 100,000 light years across. This means that light from some stars in our galaxy has taken many tens of thousands of years to reach earth. This would indicate that our galaxy is much older than 10 millennia.
Some bristlecone pine trees in the White-Inyo mountain range of California date back beyond 2000 BCE. One, labeled "Methuselah" germinated in 2726 BCE. This ocurred centuries before the date that conservative Christians assign to the Noachian flood. But their tree rings have been matched with those of dead trees; this shows that the latter germinated about 6000 BCE, which predates the year 4004 BCE by 2 millennia.
In the Green River there are varves (millions of annual layers of sediment) laid down over the past 20 million years.
During each springtime, tiny, one-celled algae bloom in Lake Suigetsu, Japan. They die and sink to the bottom of the lake. Here, they create a thin, white layer. During the rest of the year, dark clay sediments settle to the bottom. The result are alternating dark and light annual layers -- much like the annual growth rings on a tree. Scientists have counted about 45,000 layers; they have been accumulating since about 43,000 BCE. This is far beyond the estimates of 6 to 10 millennia made by many creation scientists.
Ice core samples have been taken in Greenland that show 40,000 annual layers of ice.
The Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a method of measuring the length of time that surface rocks have been exposed to cosmic rays. Cosmic rays stream into the atmosphere from all directions in outer space and break neutrons free when they collide with air molecules. When these neutrons hit rocks on the ground, they sometimes react with a tiny number of mineral atoms which create radioactive isotopes. At sea level, a few hundred modified atoms are created each year in a gram of quartz which is near the surface of the ground. New measuring techniques can detect very small numbers of these atoms and thus estimate the number of years that the rocks have been exposed. Scientists have found ages of about 8,500 years for "recent" glacial moraines in Newfoundland and 830,000 years for extinct volcanoes in Nevada.
ecause of tides, the rotation of the earth is gradually slowing, by about 1 second every 50,000 years. About 380 million years ago, each day would have about 20 hours long! There would have been about 398 days in the year. Studies of rings on rugose coral fossils that were independently estimated to be 370 million years old revealed that when they were alive, there were about 400 days in the year. This relationship has been confirmed with other coral fossils. This is rather good evidence that the world was in existence a third of a billion years ago.
The thickness of the coral reef at Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific Ocean has been measured at up to 1,380 meters. Even the most optimistic coral growth rates would require that the atoll be over 130,000 years of age.
It takes thousands of years of below-freezing temperatures to build a 100 foot layer of permafrost. But large areas in the north are permanently frozen to depths of almost one mile! This took many tens of millennia to accomplish.
There are many other indicators that the Old Earth theory is correct.
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Post by thebandit on Apr 28, 2010 21:14:54 GMT -5
Science crashes with the old earth theory, as the observance and study of meteorites shows. The issue is the lack of meteorites in the fossil layers of the earth's crust. As the old earth theory claims, the fossil layers took hundreds of millions of years to form, and that being so, numerous meteorites would have accumulated in them. With their wide excavation of these layers, scientist would have found tons and tons of meteorites. They haven't. Actually, they're not sure that they have found any, proving the youth of the earth.
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Post by Sandy Pines on Apr 29, 2010 16:34:02 GMT -5
I edited the title to better suit the conversation.
I will reply if I get the time.
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