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To: freedumb2003
There is no peer reviewed "attacks" on cook books, readers digest articles, b.c. comic strips, Star Trek novels or lots of other things. Peer reviewed science journals are reserved for science. Peer reviewed critiques are also reserved for science.

Nice try, but what do cook books, readers digest articles, b.c. comic strips, Star Trek novels have to do with the collection of, and analyis of, high retentions of nuclear-decay-generated helium in microscopic zircons (ZrSiO4 crystals)? Did you even read the research paper?

ICR is not a scientific organization. At best, it is a political organization.

It is genetic fallacy to reject the validity of scientific data based on the political or religious views of the source. If you can produce some contrary bore hole data, let's see it. Until then comparison of the research to a comic strip is empty bluster.

Cordially,

463 posted on 08/23/2006 7:56:22 AM PDT by Diamond
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To: Diamond
Nice try, but what do cook books, readers digest articles, b.c. comic strips, Star Trek novels have to do with the collection of, and analyis of, high retentions of nuclear-decay-generated helium in microscopic zircons (ZrSiO4 crystals)? Did you even read the research paper?

Because if it is not published in a recognized scientific journal and peer-reviewed then it is just meaningless words -- like Asimov's famous "thiotimoline" article -- and is thus classified with the other works I listed.

It is genetic fallacy to reject the validity of scientific data based on the political or religious views of the source. If you can produce some contrary bore hole data, let's see it. Until then comparison of the research to a comic strip is empty bluster.

What in the heck is a "genetic fallacy?" Again, I don't need to provide an argument against something that doesn't exist in the science milleu.

465 posted on 08/23/2006 8:22:15 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (I LIKE you! When I am Ruler of Earth, yours will be a quick and painless death)
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