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To: JimRed
Rate of decay vs. amount of decay of radioactive materials is one. The fact that we can see light from objects millions of light years away is another.

The methods used to measure decay are blatantly faulty. They just are. Ask 20 scientists to assess the age of a rock, and you'll get 20 wildly different answers.

There is very little science involved in an evolutionary position of creation.

38 posted on 08/05/2013 11:34:45 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude
Conservatism touches on politics, but it is a much more comprehensive world view than that.

Did we elect you to be the arbiter of what is and is not conservative?

It has been demonstrated that light has been slowing down.

No it certainly has not. There are people that have claimed such but there isn't any actual verifiable proof.

The methods used to measure decay are blatantly faulty. They just are. Ask 20 scientists to assess the age of a rock, and you'll get 20 wildly different answers.

This is false. Decay dating is imperfect but still accurate to an overwheming degree. If you were to ask 20 scientists to access the age of a single rock you would get answers that varied very little if at all. This is why it is accepted scientifically, because it is reproducible. The largest problem with radiological testing depends on the initial concentration of the element that is being tested. While this of can be a variable in certain cases, generally speaking these levels are fairly constant. E

To put it another way, my watch is a fairly accurate time keeping device, but it is not exactly precise. While one could claim that I can never tell the time of the day accurately because my watch loses 50 milliseconds a day (as an example) the truth of the matter is that I can tell time well enough that I'm usually accurate to the minute.

43 posted on 08/05/2013 12:29:34 PM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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