Ice cores

I personally don't believe the earth or it's inhabitants have only been around 6K years. For those who believe the earth is roughly 6K years or 10K years old, have you ever read about ice core dating? Basically we can extract large tubes of ice from the polar caps and analyze them...we can see "rings" which stand for annual snowfall.
They also use other dating methods as you go farther back in time since the ice gets compressed and the rings are no longer visible. Scientists have dated ice cores in the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years.
Just thought this would be an interesting discussion.

I edited my message because I wanted to post a link to a site that explains what I'm talking about in better detail.

This link is an article on ice core dating from Manchest University:

http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/aric/gccsg/3-3-2-3.html

I agree with you. The earth is VERY old.

I do not know much about Ice Cores but when I was taking my Bios for Majors. in undergrad we had an American Indian skulls we were studying in one of my sections in the 1400 levels somwhere-anyway, the skull was dated 9-11Ky. Also the American Indian did not just pop on the scene they are Asains who migrated over Beringa as the last Ice age was receeding. So while first man and first woman were over in the garden of Eden deciding if they should bite the apple as the magical snake instructed, Indians were "celebrating" at least 3,000 years on the North American Continent.

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None of the gods love wisdom or desire to become wise, for they are wise already -- nor if someone else is wise, do they love wisdom. Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful nor sensible think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

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LOL, good post! You're avatar say's "good girl"....is that sarcastic in any way?!

Yes, a little bit. I have a "naughty" streak. It goes back to my days in parochial school, it is a bit tongue in cheek .

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None of the gods love wisdom or desire to become wise, for they are wise already -- nor if someone else is wise, do they love wisdom. Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful nor sensible think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

Plato, Symposium 203E-204A