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To: Anti-MSM
How can it be reliable if scientists consistently make the earth older and older (and I don't mean one year at a time). Scietists have said the Earth was millions of years old and not its billions. Next century, it'll probably be trillions.

Try again. Scientific estimates of the age of the earth stabilised about 50 years ago (at around the time that a technique for determining the age of the earth by a reliable method emerged, by a curious coincidence) and haven't moved significantly since. Assessments of the age of the earth before the middle of the last century were little more than informed speculation, except that a lower bound could be put on the age by observing the rate of geological processes.

608 posted on 12/20/2005 11:32:52 AM PST by Thatcherite (More abrasive blackguard than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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To: Thatcherite
Scientific estimates of the age of the earth stabilised about 50 years ago...

It's good to know that in the billions of years (according to evolutionists) that the Earth has been in existence, we've finally nailed it down! I'd like to see what they're saying in another 50 years.

622 posted on 12/20/2005 11:37:00 AM PST by Anti-MSM (Conservatives wish 9/11 never happened-liberals pretend it didn't!)
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