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To: AnAmericanAbroad

“And of course, the folks who built Göbekli Tepe in present-day Turkey, built around 9000 BC.”

And Mr. Ham would wisely and intellectually dispatch with your assertion by saying....

Were you there in Turkey when Göbekli Tepe was built?


78 posted on 02/06/2014 9:44:24 AM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Oliviaforever

No, but radio-carbon dating shows when it was built.

Radio carbon dating does not lie. It is based on mathematical certainty.

End of story.


80 posted on 02/06/2014 9:55:06 AM PST by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: Oliviaforever

I don’t think the young earth argument is reasonable, but I also think people are being rude to those who make arguments on its behalf.
The argument against a young earth that is easiest for me to understand (and therefore explain) is stellar parallax. The best current measurement of star distances can find stars out to about 1600 light years distance. This only proves the universe is at least 1600 years old.
Fortunately about 6 weeks ago a new satellite was launched that should be able to measure parallax distances up to the 10s of thousands of light years. If this mission is successful then we would know that we are seeing light that left its star more than 6000 years ago.
At that point the remaining argument would be that the mission scientists are untruthful about what they report or that God created the universe with light already partly on its way to us.
Of course many other self consistent observations in astronomy already indicate tremendously older stars, but those self consistent observations are beyond something I completely understand.


100 posted on 02/06/2014 10:25:05 AM PST by conejo99
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