The Earth was made in 7 days. PLAIN AND SIMPLE! And just to let people know... carbon dating is crap. Lighting strikes create carbon14,which is used to date objects, so when lighting hits the ground or an object or the atomsphere, more is creatd, thus you cannot have an accurate representation of how old something is.
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First, lightning isn't like a Star Trek replicator. Lightning strikes don't create nuclear isotopes.
Second...can you name any other radioisotope dating methods scientists use? Any at all? Why do I get the feeling you can't?
@apYrs: 'Cause God is a lazy douchebag.
Oh, yeah, and ignoring that LIGHTNING DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY, more carbon-14 would make the Earth seem younger. Didn't quite think that one through, eh BB?
You Fail Physics Forever.
Also: while it is good for archaeology, carbon-14 is irrelevant when it comes to the age of the Earth. The half-life is way too short.
You want uranium-lead, or maybe potassium-argon. The Earth is 4.56 billion years old, and took 10 million to accrete.
And the cosmic microwave background 13.7 billion lightyears away means that the universe is a bit over three times older than the Earth.
Either that, or Last Thursdayism is correct.
@ Quantum Mechanic
But dearie, it's the amount of C14 left IN objects that is meassured. Mostly of stuff left in the ground for millions of years. Or, is your magical lightning-created carbon seeping into the ground as well?
I'm pretty useless at science, but I didn't know lightning strikes went underground. Which is odd, because we get a heck of a lot of lightning where I live, so I think I'd have noticed by now.
I do know, though, that putting plain and simple at the end of a false statement does not render the statement any less false, even if the words are SHOUTED.
"The Earth was made in 7 days. PLAIN AND SIMPLE!"
Well, simple things please simple minds. Certainly explains fundies & their 'beliefs'.
'Americans hate complexity'
-Stephen Fry, Stephen Fry in America"
"And just to let people know... carbon dating is crap."
And toilet paper is a rip-off. Your point, B_B?
"Lighting strikes create carbon14,which is used to date objects, so when lighting hits the ground or an object or the atomsphere, more is creatd, thus you cannot have an accurate representation of how old something is."
List! What is yon sound in the distance? Why, it's all the meteorologists, geologists, archaeologists, and physicists in the world laughing their tits off at you.
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Fail physics much?
Idiot.
Let's have a bet; do you know more English than I do?
I know it's called "lightNing". I also know it's called "atmosphere", and "created", among your other spelling and grammar error. I'm born and raised in Sweden, I have been to Norway, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Hungary and Greece, none of which has English as a first language.
Besides, I know that God created the world in SIX days, on the seventh he rested. Carbon dating is much less crap than your grasp of the Bible, stupid.
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