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Grant · 09-26-2006, 11:44 PM

I'm tired of the whole "NO! DARWIN WAS A FOOL! KILL THE EVOLUTIONISTS! IM RIGHT AND YOURE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!" "NO YOU'RE WRONG! DIE!" types of discussion (lol, yes thats an huge exaggeration). I suggest we put our egos and lifestlyes totally aside and look at the facts. Naturally, since you believe what you do, most of your statements will be supporting your beliefs (ie ill probably do more "defending" creationism than not). So who wants to put our heads together and look at the facts?

Let me throw something out there to get the discussion started...

Carbon dating... why or why not is it accurite?

To be honest, I haven't looked into the actual methods and everything behind it. I know they measure the decay and its proportions to time.

Here's C-14 dating EXTREMELY over-simplified

5 decay = 1 year
Therefore
5,000,000,000 decay = 1,000,000,000

How do we know the process doesn't speed up or slow down between 1 and 1 million years? Couldn't it just naturally be faster/slower or the Earth's properties changing over time, etc?

09-26-2006, 11:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
Grant Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Teyhickans (TX) Posts: 134	Mutual Discussion I'm tired of the whole "NO! DARWIN WAS A FOOL! KILL THE EVOLUTIONISTS! IM RIGHT AND YOURE WRONG NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!" "NO YOU'RE WRONG! DIE!" types of discussion (lol, yes thats an huge exaggeration). I suggest we put our egos and lifestlyes totally aside and look at the facts. Naturally, since you believe what you do, most of your statements will be supporting your beliefs (ie ill probably do more "defending" creationism than not). So who wants to put our heads together and look at the facts? Let me throw something out there to get the discussion started... Carbon dating... why or why not is it accurite? To be honest, I haven't looked into the actual methods and everything behind it. I know they measure the decay and its proportions to time. Here's C-14 dating EXTREMELY over-simplified 5 decay = 1 year Therefore 5,000,000,000 decay = 1,000,000,000 How do we know the process doesn't speed up or slow down between 1 and 1 million years? Couldn't it just naturally be faster/slower or the Earth's properties changing over time, etc? __________________ Hey.