Posted on 08/26/2013 7:11:10 PM PDT by WXRGina
The Bible has no “Earth was created X number of years ago,,” or “2500 years before Jesus was born” verses.
This is someone at home trying to add it up according to their interpretation of Genesis.
And as The Bible has poetry in it. Not everything in it is to be taken literally.
With some effort, I managed to track it down, hoping to get some context. (You'd think that someone purporting to discuss science might provide a reference, but I guess that's too much to ask.) Anyway, the paper seems to be here, though you can't see more than the abstract without paying. He does in fact say "Geological processes are commonly thought of as slow and continuous, but many are rapid and episodic. Granitic plutonism is of the latter kind."
Without seeing the whole paper, I don't know if he claims that all granite formed quickly--which would be necessary if the creationist timeline is correct--or just that it can happen and in some cases did. Also, it's from 2005, and we don't know how it's held up over the past 8 years.
And, of course, the fact that it can form quickly doesn't mean it's not old.
Wow. There are quite a few hysterical responses.
Anyone who has unearthed very much rock (including sedimentary rock) with their own hands from under dry land and worked with it much (with their own hands) knows about the big academic lie.
You are so utterly ignorant of the science and chemistry involved and so driven to reach a preconceived fantasy, you fail to see how it is utterly irrational, even in a scenario where the Deity created the Earrth only some millenia ago. Granite is being formed right now as we discuss this issue. It wasn’t just put there by a divine act and stopped. It wasn’t put there by the formation of the earth more than 4 billion years ago and then stopped. It has always been an ongoing phemomena no matter when you choose to believe the Earth was formed. So, your strawman argument is so inherently irrational no matter what someone wishes to believe, you look completely silly no matter which camp the readers are in with respect to the date when the Earth was created.
try something which is true and credible like carrying a signboard proclaiming a All are Doomed, Repent Ye sins. At least that would be honest and true.
Two can play that game. Try first proving you are a real person asking your question, and you are not just a figemnt of someone’s or something’s imagination imagining your question.
False!
Been there and done that. Even had the help of one of the largest shovels on the Earth.
the same fate awaits you when you bear false witness....
Thermodynamics says you don't cool anything "instantly", and the bigger the sample is, the longer it's going to take.
ALL granite?
And then all of a sudden you’re up to your ears in them.
You missed the point of my post. Some individual localized formations may occur fast, but on a global scale it doesn’t add up.
Yes, there are. Even on a predominantly pro-Christian website, there are plenty of atheist "intellectuals."
All granite that has the haloes has to have cooled just about instantaneously or they couldn’t be there.
Then what, were there large gobs of rare isotopes present so that there would be enough to make the haloes?
Don’t think so.
So we’re embracing that theory that mountain-sized granite deposits were cooled “instantly”?
And what of the ones that don’t/didn’t?
Don’t ignore the herd of elephants in the room.
>> “And what of the ones that don’t/didn’t?” <<
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Where do you find it?
What, does all granite have “halos”? For sake of argument, I’m conceding that some does and may have cooled very fast; do you contend all of it did? If yes, then what evidence thereof? If no, then what does that mean for the “10,000 year” theory?
And try doing the math on cooling a literal mountain of granite. The thermal transfer is hardly “instant”.
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