evolution

Originally posted by Darth Revan
Maybe it changed? I don't understand what you're saying...

Hey.. Christianity shouldn't say "this is the truth" when not exactly knowing! It's only because you've been a Christian all your life, right?

I have not always been.

Hey, well, every argument for evolutionism is a thing of commentary.
You can also construe it as an argument for creationism.

Another thing is... Where do you know about the age of the layers of earth?
Please answer that one.

I meant maybe the radiocarbon decay rate changed?
Did you evaluate it 5725 years ago? And maybe 11450 years ago?

Well, I don't choose not to believe in Christianity just because I don't want to believe in a higher authority, so I guess we're even. I used to be Christian, but I quit, because it just didn't make sense to me. Since then I have been somewhere between agnosticism and atheism.

When did I mention the layers of the earth? I know almost nothing about geology, so...

I seriously doubt that the radiocarbon decay rate changed, but even if it had... What about the star thing?

Originally posted by eezy45
I have not always been.

Hey, well, every argument for evolutionism is a thing of commentary.
You can also construe it as an argument for creationism.

Another thing is... Where do you know about the age of the layers of earth?
Please answer that one.

I meant maybe the radiocarbon decay rate changed?
Did you evaluate it 5725 years ago? And maybe 11450 years ago?

radioactive decay rate NEVER changes. It's always the same for each isotope.

where do you know that AE

every chemist/physics knows that. It's taught in every course. That's why c-14 can be used to date organic compounds and u-235 can be used to date rocks

Originally posted by yerssot

I want my knife and fork again 🙁 *gives Line a mean look*

*hides them in pocket, ducks to avoid the scientific cross fire and hurries back to the spectators' seats, returning your mean look with an even meaner one*

Originally posted by The Force
sayonora

😆

Run man! Get outta here! Or else people will continue to ask you tons of other stuff! 😄

*shows off pimpin' white lab coat and glasses* 🤓 😎

I believe in evolution. Its natural.

Originally posted by Line
*hides them in pocket, ducks to avoid the scientific cross fire and hurries back to the spectators' seats, returning your mean look with an even meaner one*

Originally posted by Agent Elrond
every chemist/physics knows that. It's taught in every course. That's why c-14 can be used to date organic compounds and u-235 can be used to date rocks

oh yes, and because it is taught
(yep it has been taught to todays chemists and physics too)
it is true right? as well as evolution.

made one mistake. It's U-238, not U235 used to adte rocks. U-235 is used in nukes. How can anyone disagrree with radioactive dating?

Originally posted by eezy45
oh yes, and because it is taught
(yep it has been taught to todays chemists and physics too)
it is true right? as well as evolution.

Well yeah... I was trying to prove that the universe is older than 12,000 years by talking about carbon dating... So OBVIOUSLY I think it's true. And you got it backwards. It's not true because it's taught, it's taught because it's true.

and how can you proof that the rate is constant?
we have the result of 50 years of research

Ask Omega. She knows alot more about physics than I will ever know.

i just say it neednt be constant, and can also be affected by other things

sorry if i dont use the best wording, actually i could argue better in german...

Ok then, I ask you for the third time: How do you explain the fact that we can see stars that are millions of light years away if the universe is only a little over ten thousand years old?

thats a hard one 😛

maybe the universe is older, actually... God made the world, (ok the stars too but... hmm..)
confusing 😛

Originally posted by eezy45
i just say it neednt be constant, and can also be affected by other things

sorry if i dont use the best wording, actually i could argue better in german...

Nothing we know affect radioactive decay. That's why it's so accurate at dating objects. We know it doesn't change, since elements with shorter half-lifes, like an isotope of iodine, that has a half-life of 7 days. In say, a 10 year period, that half life remains the same

and how do you know the quantity of C14 in "65 million year old" petro?