The earth can't be billions of years old because it is slowly spinning down due to energy loss. If it was billions of years old, it would have to have been spinning at millions of miles per hour, throwing the dinosaurs that were supposed to exist then off of the earth (maybe that's why they're extinct, eh?)
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You fucking idiot! Wanna know the difference between the Earth and a spinning top? Well you know apart from the fact that one of them weighs 6 trillion trillion kilograms, it also happens to be travelling through a frictionless environment which a top on Earth does not.
The only reason it's slowing down at all is the retrograde orbit of the moon pulling the tides in the opposite direction to the Earth's spin.
So there were 400 days in a year 500 million years ago. What exactly is your point here?
It's currently spinning at the equator at about 1000mph. In the days of the EARLIEST dinosaurs, it would've been about 1050mph.
centripetal acceleration to spin anything off the planet would need a rotation in the order of 8 kilometres a second... Yep 5,000 times what would've been there!
Boy the fuckwits are queueing up already!
Boy, you can make claims against science all over the place when you don't need to bother with any actual, you know, FACTS.
~David D.G.
Yes, they were mooned to death. That guy said so, back in July or something. It was on the Internet. It must be true, after all.
<sarcasm>I know... Maybe the angular momentum and gravity were in equilibrium so that dirt, water and everything got thrown off the surface and created a hollow ball in the sky! That's it! The dinosaurs actually lived upside-down, and when the earth slowed down, it all came crashing back down and that's why dinosaurs are extinct and you always have to dig for dinosaur bones!</sarcasm>
"Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life here."
Why haven't people like Ærik¯Thª¯Nøt¯®eD killed themselves with a kitchen accident or something? Isn't that what Survival of the Fittest dictates in cases of extreme stupidity? Damn you Darwin! Your process is too slow!
Slowly spinning down due to energy loss ... guess the retro-burners have gone wonky and now, the earth is losing speed!
I wonder if Ærik¯Thª¯Nøt¯®eD ever postulated how the dinosaurs managed to evolve in the first place on this spinning-out-of-control planet.
Oh wait, this explains the size of the dinosaurs .. they had to be big and heavy in order to keep from being flung off the planet! (Never mind the smaller dino's, they didn't really exist.) Yes, and the long necks of the brachiosaurs were due to the tremendous pull caused by the spin!!
You know, it's sort of fun making up 'facts' ... very much like writing a fiction story. You know, like the bibble.
Let me xplain what happened. The earth WAS spinning faster and faster and all the dinosaurs spun off. The humans were ok because Noah's ancestor had created safety harnesses for them which he attached to giant boabab trees.
When the flood came, there were no dinosaurs to collect to put in the ark because they were swirling around in space.
If you look closely at the clouds on a bright summer's day, you can see the dinosaur shapes in the clouds. This is a sign from gawd that he won't ever let dinosaurs eat people again.
Halleluha.. and pass the KFC
“The earth can't be billions of years old because it is slowly spinning down due to energy loss.”
The earth’s rotation IS slowing, but so very, very minutely that we don’t even have to change the clocks for it.
Think about that.
We get Leap Days every few years to adjust for lost milliseconds, but that’s from rotational variations. The slowing we havn’t had to take into account for our superaccurate timing systesm in the history of timing systems.
"If it was billions of years old, it would have to have been spinning at millions of miles per hour,”
And if the tide had been gong out for a billion years we’d have no oceans.
"throwing the dinosaurs that were supposed to exist then off of the earth (maybe that's why they're extinct, eh?)”
You GROSSLY exaggerate the rate of change, here.
Sorry.
I’m sure you were excited to discover the wooden stake to kill Atheism in its crypt, but you’ve failed.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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