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To: Moonman62
Science is math and measurement and testable theories. Michael Faraday was doing science. Maxwell was doing science. It wasn't just pie-in-the-sky "here's a cool theory" stuff.

600 million years ago, oxygen may have burst forth.

Please describe the testing which is planned in order to verify this guess.

27 posted on 11/16/2014 8:25:02 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observational_science


34 posted on 11/16/2014 8:31:16 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: ClearCase_guy; Moonman62
ClearCase guy: "600 million years ago, oxygen may have burst forth.
Please describe the testing which is planned in order to verify this guess."

The article here does not tell us where they got the data suggesting a huge increase in oxygen levels, from .1% to something similar to today's 20%.
But oxygen levels would leave clues in various chemical processes, from magma to the amount of iron in sedimentary rocks.
The article should at least have mentioned where their data came from.

125 posted on 11/16/2014 2:23:41 PM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective..)
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