Posted on 10/28/2011 6:39:41 AM PDT by Ancient Drive
I read that carbon dating method is only accurate for up to 30,000 yrs. So how are scientists coming up with millions yrs. old fossils? For all we know dinosaurs died off not millions but 100's of thousands of yrs ago.
Bit of a stretch to say the dinosaurs were around in Jesus day...
But see Job 40 beginning in v 15.
“Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox. 16 What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! 17 His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. 18 His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like rods of iron.
I’m not skeptical, I just do not believe that Jesus was anything more than a very gifted and good man. Why do you want to convince me of something? What do you want to convince me of?
It’s great that you have such a strong faith. I do too, it’s just different than yours. I certainly wouldn’t want to try and change your faith, as I believe our faith is provided to us by God, not by a book or a man.
There are several different ways to 'date' a rock layer, the most common is relative age the attribution of a rock layer to a time period based on its placement relative to the rocks around it. The next, dealing with fossil content is a biostratigraphic age, with certain assemblages of remains being ascribed to a certain time period, and then the numbers ("absolute age") come from interpretation of isotopic dating of minerals in igneous and or metamorphic rocks (in the latter case, identifying their last period of high temperature/pressure deformation) which are sandwiched in, buried under, intruded into, or provide the materials for sedimentary rock in which fossils are found. Inferences are made about the age of the sediments according to their stratigraphic relationships to the rocks for which an absolute age has been acceptably established.
The numbers can be suspect for sediments, as a given rock formation is generally assumed to have the same age over its lateral extent when the environment in which it formed may have shifted geographically over time, they are usually given as a range of dates. There are few markers which are global in extent (one such is the K-T Boundary--the sediment from the impact event which has been credited by some with the demise of the dinosaurs), so there are places where the record doesn't completely flange up, or absolute ages may be in dispute, even within the framework of isotopic dating.
Regardless of the numbers which have been attached, this makes a good working model to designate relative ages of strata and sort things out.
Whether the numbers are absolutely correct depends on measurement, sampling, and on the constancy of physical constants.
If the universe is 'billions' of years old, we don't have enough data on physical constants to determine how constant they really are over time.
Anyway, in our efforts to understand that which surrounds us, we do come up with working models, with apparent rules, which are subject to constant revision because no matter how much we know, for every answer, we commonly end up with more questions.
The fundamental assumption in this modeling is that the same forces which are working now work in the the same way now as they did then, and, of course that they worked at all.
Again, we assume this to be the case, because it makes for a nice, tidy working model.
Yet at the same time, if we are ever to travel among the stars, we will have to find ways to exceed the parameters we have set in our interpretation of nature, and we are actively seeking ways to do so, looking for the faster than light particle, the wormhole to transit normal space, and ways to harness or negate the effects of gravity, for a few.
So despite placing certain rules on the physical universe, we seek to transcend those rules ourselves. So I don't have any trouble with an all-knowing and all-powerful God who can transcend the rules we have imposed through observation of how things seem to work at the moment--or even over the past few hundreds of years.
For now we see as through a glass, darkly...
Are you sure that wasn’t written by a Palinbot???LOL
Not to the people at the Creation Museum in Kentucky and to this guy.
Cleaning the T. Rex cage must have been interesting: Article and Thread
It wasn't?
Funny, in the history books, I don’t recall the Romans interacting with the T-Rex..
The history books lie!
Ah, so they are the ancestors of werewolves? Weredinos? :-P
When you're, with the Flintstones:-)
Have a yabba, dabba, doo time
A dabba doo time
We'll have a gay, old time!
There is an interesting study that the Koran is actually a Nestorian/Assyrian Christian text originally written in Syriac/Aramaic and not in Arabic.
one translation of tail is more the sex organ and not “thighs” but “stones”....
What makes you think God’s version of 6 days and your version are the same?
Jesus as the "good man" -- but then why does He tell the Samaritan woman that food is not meant for the dogs (Samaritans)? Or the violence in the temple? Or, for that matter, why crucify a "good man"?
Bluntly also, the part of rejecting the resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ would mean rejecting the Epistles of St. Paul and indeed the Earliest Christians all hailed Christ as resurrected.
i don't see how one can hail Jesus as just the good man and reject the rest of things around Him
duuh. of course not — Star Wars was a documentary.. ;)
Who did the children of Adam & Eve marry?
They invented fangs.
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