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To: jennyp
Yeah it was a pretty funny story. I could have mountains of documentation, however, and it would not matter because evolutionary theory has become dogma, above question.

The story is very possibly true, BTW, but will never be publicized because it doesn't fit the model of what we are "supposed to believe." I could take video of a living dinosaur, get dropping samples, obtain an egg - and it would not change anything. The veracity of the proof is irrelevant.

You may wish to take a stab at the must more serious problem posed in that post, the splitter rather than the easy change-up.

524 posted on 08/20/2006 11:22:22 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: Lexinom
The story is very possibly true, BTW, but will never be publicized because it doesn't fit the model of what we are "supposed to believe." I could take video of a living dinosaur, get dropping samples, obtain an egg - and it would not change anything. The veracity of the proof is irrelevant.

So, if those stories are all around, can you link to an article from Answers in Genesis that contains one such "bombshell" like a videotaped dinosaur or, in your anecdote, a cat that fossilized in 3 years? AiG would have an interest in documenting cats that fossilized in 3 years, don't you think... ?
527 posted on 08/20/2006 11:35:56 PM PDT by Seamoth (Kool-aid is the most addictive and destructive drug of them all.)
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To: Lexinom
Yeah it was a pretty funny story. I could have mountains of documentation, however, and it would not matter because evolutionary theory has become dogma, above question.

The creationist literature is rife with pretty funny stories about all those silly evolutionist coming up with wildly wrong dates. Ever hear the one about the silly evolutionist who dated a mollusk as millions of years old, but then the mollusk squirted them in the eye? Hah hah hah, oh those silly evolutionist they are so silly...

It turns out, of course, that dating techniques aren't so simplistic as the creationist writers assume they must be. This is something that real, working geologists have learned over decades of painstaking work. It turns out that if you try to carbon-date a mollusk that lives in a body of water that is high in dissolved limestone (calcium carbonate that itself is millions of years old), their shells absorb some of it and thus skew the c14 results. This is something that geologists have known for decades and know how to account for, as part of their job. But creationist pamphlet/website authors think it's somehow damning to science. (shrug)

Some fairly major assumptions about constancy have to be made - all of which begin assuming the conclusion (Lyell's geological timeframe) as the premise. They are assumptions not subject to falsification, since to do so under the scientific method would require a time machine. That ain't science, it's "science" - speculation.

No, long ages are a conclusion from the evidence. Young ages are the a-priori dogmatic assertion of young Earth creationists, and that is why you never hear anything about radiometric dating, etc. from them except the supposedly damning (but actually bogus) anomalies like above.

529 posted on 08/20/2006 11:43:25 PM PDT by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: your mind)
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