We change ALL science dates in books to reflect YEC. My goal is to one day create a YEC Earth Science homeschool program. I love Earth Science, it is one of my favorite subjects, but there is NOTHING out there that doesn't reflex millions of years in their text.
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The Bible puts Noah's flood at 4,300 - 4,500 years ago. The oldest bristlecone pine is at least 4,800. It grows in the desert, where Cambrian fossils abound. How does homeschooling mom explain that?
Now, let's see if I have this right. It's a little esoteric, but it doesn't strike me as being particularly hard to understand.
When a star goes supernova, there's a fairly large amount of nucleogenesis that takes place, all the way up to Californium. Knowing the decay rates of various marker isotopes and approximate amounts that would be created in a supernova, we can get a reasonable approximation not only of the age of the planet itself, but if we try hard enough, all the way back to the supernova that formed the planetary nebula that our solar system came from. (I don't know the figure, but someone must, and I'd guess it's considerably older than 4.5 billion years.) So when you add all the numbers up, based on what we currently know about stellar evolution and planet formation, we'd wind up with a figure that's, well, damn huge by YEC standards.
So why is this so hard for YECs to understand?
No problem. The question is, what are they going to be useful to?, are you going to sit and wait until another serious scientist discovers something and you change the dates again?, in nature it´s called PARASITE.
Homeschooling should be illegal unless a parent has degrees in art, science, music and literature, or is at least is able to write a coherent internet post.
Legal homeschooling has to follow certain educational standards, I believe.
Replacing factual figures with fictional ones is the sort of thing that can get you barred from homeschooling, lady. It's right up there with altering the history books to say Elvis won the Civil War.
[Edit] What's with the random placement of comments?
“We change ALL science dates in books to reflect YEC.”
Okay. So, in the chapter on varves, where it says ’there’s a river in Wyoming with 20 million annual layers of sediment under it. Scientists use this to determine that the river has been there for’ scribble scribble ‘six thousand years.’ Because somehow the Great Flood sorted the annual sediment deposits of about a thousand years accumulation into 20 million individual layers. BEcause that’s what floods do, sort things out.’
“My goal is to one day create a YEC Earth Science homeschool program.”
Easy enough, take an Old Earth homeschool program and stamp ‘Nuh-UH!’ on every page.
“ I love Earth Science, it is one of my favorite subjects, but there is NOTHING out there that doesn't reflex millions of years in their text.”
There’s… There’s a good REASON for that.
Feel free to show how a single flood even will deposit heavy materials on top of a layer of lighter materials…
Feel encouraged to show how the Himalayas have deposits of salt buried under the mountains. Salt flats take YEARS to accumulate. Up in the mountains, those weren’t even covered for an entire year. Explain how the salt accumulated in six to eight months.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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