Posted on 09/17/2025 10:20:21 AM PDT by zeestephen
Are you series about having gone to Hugh School?
Did your Beeber get stuned there?
Heh, heh. But then I’d have to take responsibility for my misspellings and whatnot. đ
That was hugh and series.
Need Moar Cow Farts
Heh, heh. Sorry for getting all covfefe’d.
And I was going to settle for a series diploma.
Isn’t it amazing how long the Hugh and series thread, along with “I’m gonna go jump in the shower” thread have stuck around here?!
That was 2000, I believe.
(Iâve been adding methane, canât help it.)
Not a problem, it breaks down to CO2 and H2O in the atmosphere. It becomes plant food and rain drops.
Living things die and become sediment in oceans, or buried on land, taking their carbon content with them.
Environmentalists talk about âcarbon sequestrationâ schemes, but we cause a huge amount as a byproduct of burying trash in landfills.
God created a mature earth. He didn't start with seeds and eggs. This is a small issue, but important conceptually.
Dating processes rely on assumptions and often circular evidence. Fossils date rocks, and rocks date fossils. This is widespread. Carbon 14 dating makes assumptions and extrapolations about half life. Assumptions about continuous vs cataclysmic change. Take the Grand Canyon, for example. If the assumption is that layers were deposited gradually over long periods of time, then the typical dating described would be accurate. But the evidence supports cataclysmic change, meaning layers were deposited rapidly in a short amount of time. This is not unusual and can be seen in all kinds of rapid change events today. Additionally, it aligns with the evidence showing plants and animals rapidly buried in rock layers that defy the dating of continuous deposition. Lastly, dating the earth as very old always denies the clear text of the Bible and either eliminates God or denies him the possibility to form the earth the way he said it was. Unfortunately, much of the scientific writing is in this camp and will naturally refuse to consider alternatives. Google Creation Science for more on this. And trust God and his word in all things - even scientific discoveries.
That is a big question to unpack. And I am not a specialist in this area, but here is what I have learned from the research I have done.
God created a mature earth. He didn’t start with seeds and eggs. This is a small issue, but important conceptually.
Dating processes rely on assumptions and often circular evidence. Fossils date rocks, and rocks date fossils. This is widespread.
Carbon 14 dating makes assumptions and extrapolations about half life.
Assumptions about continuous vs cataclysmic change. Take the Grand Canyon, for example. If the assumption is that layers were deposited gradually over long periods of time, then the typical dating described would be accurate. But the evidence supports cataclysmic change, meaning layers were deposited rapidly in a short amount of time. This is not unusual and can be seen in all kinds of rapid change events today.
Additionally, it aligns with the evidence showing plants and animals rapidly buried in rock layers that defy the dating of continuous deposition.
Lastly, dating the earth as very old always denies the clear text of the Bible and either eliminates God or denies him the possibility to form the earth the way he said it was.
Unfortunately, much of the scientific writing is in this camp and will naturally refuse to consider alternatives. Google Creation Science for more on this. And trust God and his word in all things - even scientific discoveries.
The scary thing is that we are entering the tech era where we can actually remove CO2 from the atmosphere.It is beginning, not yet enough to affect the % but it will continually increase. The Law of Tech Progress says if a thing can be done it will be done regardless of benefit or liability. We will reach the poiin that complex life no longer survives because procsses will be working that cannot be shut off.
I disabled autocorrect. It is pernicious.
The focus on CO2 is worth a LOT of money o Algore&Co.
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