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To: Junior
So you reference Scripture to show that Scripture is the Word of God. Do you know the meaning of the term "circular reference?"

As like in the circular logic used by the evolutionist? Dating the fossils by the layer they are found in and dating the layers by the fossils they contain.

204 posted on 10/08/2005 8:48:29 AM PDT by newsgatherer
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To: newsgatherer

"Dating the fossils by the layer they are found in and dating the layers by the fossils they contain."

Do you have a source for this contention?


206 posted on 10/08/2005 8:49:48 AM PDT by stormer (Get your bachelors, masters, or doctorate now at home in your spare time!)
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To: newsgatherer
Dating the fossils by the layer they are found in and dating the layers by the fossils they contain.

Now I know that you get all your information from creationist sites. That is not how fossils, nor strata are dated. Geologists have used "index fossils" to roughly date strata, but fine-tuned dating usually involves one or more radiometric processes (which are used to double check one another -- go ahead and claim that decay rates were different in the past; if that were the case different isotopes would give wildly conflicting dates).

Radiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective

218 posted on 10/08/2005 9:00:15 AM PDT by Junior (From now on, I'll stick to science, and leave the hunting alien mutants to the experts!)
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To: newsgatherer
As like in the circular logic used by the evolutionist? Dating the fossils by the layer they are found in and dating the layers by the fossils they contain.

Again it's not circular. But it's also incorrect to associate the applicable methods with evolutionists. They were invented by and used by creationists many decades before Darwin published his ideas.

357 posted on 10/08/2005 1:43:16 PM PDT by Stultis
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