Granite disprov a 6000 year old Earth.

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According to geologist, granite is a type of rock that is made out of crystals formed at temperatures above 900 degree Celsius. Scientists has measured the cooling rate of granite rock and found out that it cools down at a rate of about 25-250 degrees Celsius per 1 million year.

In nature we find a lot of granite with a temperature of ~25 degree Celsius. If we are to believe geologists, chemistry, physics and theory of crystallization and heat conduction theory to be correct, then it implies the Earth is at least ~4 million years old - in other word it implies that Young Earth Creationist's estimated age of the Earth is off with at least a factor 1000.
 
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According to geologist, granite is a type of rock that is made out of crystals formed at temperatures above 900 degree Celsius. Scientists has measured the cooling rate of granite rock and found out that it cools down at a rate of about 25-250 degrees Celsius per 1 million year.
In nature we find a lot of granite with a temperature of ~25 degree Celsius. If we are to believe geologist, chemistry, physics and theory of crystallization and heat conduction theory to be correct, then it implies the Earth is at least ~4 million years old - in other word it implies that Young Earth Creationist's estimated age of the Earth is off with at least a factor 1000.
Believing the earth is 6000 years old is like believing the USA is 8 yards wide, that gives you some idea of just how far out creationists are..
There are trees nearly 6000 years old still alive today.
 
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Believing the earth is 6000 years old is like believing the USA is 8 yards wide, that gives you some idea of just how far out creationists are..

I never been to murika, but I seen in an atlas that murika is no more than about a feet wide. I am quite sure I estimated it properly.

There are trees nearly 6000 years old still alive today.

Alive clonal trees can reach even higher ages.

There are several spruces in Sweden aged >8000 years old some of them ~9.5 thousand years old. Their ages coincident with the ice age in Scandinavia (it is hard for trees to grow under 3000 feet of ice). There is an oak in murika aged 13 thousand years old and aspens estimated up to 1 million years old.
 
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According to geologist, granite is a type of rock that is made out of crystals formed at temperatures above 900 degree Celsius. Scientists has measured the cooling rate of granite rock and found out that it cools down at a rate of about 25-250 degrees Celsius per 1 million year.

In nature we find a lot of granite with a temperature of ~25 degree Celsius. If we are to believe geologists, chemistry, physics and theory of crystallization and heat conduction theory to be correct, then it implies the Earth is at least ~4 million years old - in other word it implies that Young Earth Creationist's estimated age of the Earth is off with at least a factor 1000.

It is not 4.5 billion years old either.
 
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According to geologist, granite is a type of rock that is made out of crystals formed at temperatures above 900 degree Celsius.
Meaning what?

God didn't create granite ex nihilo?

Is that what you want me to believe?
 
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According to geologist, granite is a type of rock that is made out of crystals formed at temperatures above 900 degree Celsius. Scientists has measured the cooling rate of granite rock and found out that it cools down at a rate of about 25-250 degrees Celsius per 1 million year.

The granite may well be billions of years old, life was created six thousand years ago. All we know about the original creation is that it was 'in the beginning', life on the other hand was created six thousand years ago.
 
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The granite may well be billions of years old, life was created six thousand years ago. All we know about the original creation is that it was 'in the beginning', life on the other hand was created six thousand years ago.

What extra-biblical verifiable data confirms this bronze age claim?
 
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The granite may well be billions of years old, life was created six thousand years ago. All we know about the original creation is that it was 'in the beginning', life on the other hand was created six thousand years ago.
Do I understand that you mean "all" life was created only six thousand years ago?
 
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Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, but no one is entitled to their own facts. :)

Exactly, and the facts show that evolution and all associated
old earth and old galaxy theories are impossible, not just
unlikely.
 
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Exactly, and the facts show that evolution and all associated
old earth and old galaxy theories are impossible, not just
unlikely.
First, I suggest that we respect "In situ's" thread and stick to his topic. It has nothing to do with evolution or astronomy, rather how granite forms and the time involved for it to form.

Having said that, if you can present any supporting scientific facts that support your position of a young earth, I would be very happy to review and access each of them individually. Keep in mind that I do have a considerable background in petrology.

And please keep in mind that we are talking about the formation of granite.
 
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Do I understand that you mean "all" life was created only six thousand years ago?
All living things on earth, I think the angels were created previously but none of the details of that creation are available. God may well be creating life elsewhere but in answer to your question, all living creatures alive today descended from the originally created kinds from creation week.

Grace and peace,
Mark
 
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All living things on earth, I think the angels were created previously but none of the details of that creation are available. God may well be creating life elsewhere but in answer to your question, all living creatures alive today descended from the originally created kinds from creation week.

Grace and peace,
Mark

Does that include life we find in the fossil record?
 
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All living things on earth, I think the angels were created previously but none of the details of that creation are available. God may well be creating life elsewhere but in answer to your question, all living creatures alive today descended from the originally created kinds from creation week.

Grace and peace,
Mark
Hmmm, now that presents a problem. :scratch:

How do you explain the fossil record distributed throughout the geologic column that is older than six thousand years?
 
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Hmmm, now that presents a problem. :scratch:

How do you explain the fossil record distributed throughout the geologic column that is older than six thousand years?
Why would I have to explain it, like I said, the earth could well have been created billions of years ago. There is nothing conclusive about dating methods, I've seen carbon 14 used effectively, but even then it can be adjusted hundreds of years. Geology has never been an issue for me.
 
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Why would I have to explain it, like I said, the earth could well have been created billions of years ago. There is nothing conclusive about dating methods, I've seen carbon 14 used effectively, but even then it can be adjusted hundreds of years. Geology has never been an issue for me.
What I'm asking you to explain is how do we have fossils in millions even billions of years old strata? How did they get there if they are only 6,000 years old at best?
 
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What I'm asking you to explain is how do we have fossils in millions even billions of years old strata?
I saw a loaf of raisin bread once.

It always baffled me how those aged grapes got inside that freshly-baked dough.
 
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