If the Earth is young...

[Phred]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Why are there no isotopes with half lives of less than 80 million years present?

After all, if everything was new 6,000 years ago we should see evidence of all isotopes with half lives of under 6,000 years. Yet, naturally occurring within our environment we don't see anything with a half life under 80 million years present.

Seems either the earth is irrefutably old or the creator is deceiving us.

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[Industriaan]

i know what dad would say: "in pmerged universe there were no time decays and psysical contsants were diferent and because of that time decay is nonsens"
But everybody knows by know that dad s full of crap.
--
Ni Hao

 

[Phred]

i know what dad would say: "in pmerged universe there were no time decays and psysical contsants were diferent and because of that time decay is nonsens"

For a change he can't pull that on this one. This works the other way. These are elements that are far too decayed, thus showing that they've been decaying longer. dad's usual nonsense claims that decay didn't start until after the "fall." That is contradicted by this decay.

 

[TheBear]

Some of us are able to discuss the topic, without the distractions of and about other members.



Good topic, Phred!

I await the forthcoming creative thinking!

 

[f U z ! o N]

thats an awesome question! if the earth is so young we would see elements with half lives under 6000 years yet we don't. i never really thought of this untill now! reps for you

 

[Praxiteles]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] or the creator is deceiving us.

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Yes.

Appearance of age, don'tcha know!

 

[LittleNipper]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Why are there no isotopes with half lives of less than 80 million years present?

After all, if everything was new 6,000 years ago we should see evidence of all isotopes with half lives of under 6,000 years. Yet, naturally occurring within our environment we don't see anything with a half life under 80 million years present.

Seems either the earth is irrefutably old or the creator is deceiving us.

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Perhaps GOD doesn't know what a half life is and never considered such because HE is not a scientist.... Maybe we should question why isotopes exist at all...

 

[Praxiteles]

Perhaps GOD doesn't know what a half life is and never considered such because HE is not a scientist.... Maybe we should question why isotopes exist at all...

Whatever.

 

[TheBear]

Perhaps GOD doesn't know what a half life is and never considered such because HE is not a scientist.... Maybe we should question why isotopes exist at all...

I cannot believe people actually think like this. But here it is, for all to see.

Wow!

 

[Praxiteles]

I cannot believe people actually think like this. But here it is, for all to see.

Wow!

C'mon now TheBear, how long have you been infesting this forum now?

 

[TheBear]

C'mon now TheBear, how long have you been infesting this forum now?

"Infesting"? Sounds yucky.

 

[Praxiteles]

"Infesting"? Sounds yucky.

Hmmm.

Haunting?

 

[f U z ! o N]

ok little nipper. once again wrapped up in your fundamentalism you miss the point entirely. how can God, the creator of all natural laws not be a scientist?
please read a science book.

 

[random_guy]

Perhaps GOD doesn't know what a half life is and never considered such because HE is not a scientist.... Maybe we should question why isotopes exist at all...

Exactly! If anyone is the scientist, it's Satan. He's always scheming, just like those evolutionary scientists. He'd know what half life is and why isotopes exists. Heck, I bet he created the isotopes in the first place.

 

[Praxiteles]

Exactly! If anyone is the scientist, it's Satan. He's always scheming, just like those evolutionary scientists. He'd know what half life is and why isotopes exists. Heck, I bet he created the isotopes in the first place.

Of course!

Why didn't I think of that? He probably put those pesky isotopes there while he was sorting the dinosaur fossils into age order.

 

[Hydra009]

Perhaps GOD doesn't know what a half life is and never considered such because HE is not a scientist.... Maybe we should question why isotopes exist at all...

Ummm...wouldn't the creator of all things know a little bit about how they work?

Kinda weird that God so closely resembles oneself.

 

[Lucretius]

The isotope C-14 has a half-life of 5730, which is slightly under 6,000. This naturally occurs when energetic neutrons hit N-14 atoms drifting in the atmosphere.

 

[birdan]

Exactly! If anyone is the scientist, it's Satan. He's always scheming, just like those evolutionary scientists. He'd know what half life is and why isotopes exists. Heck, I bet he created the isotopes in the first place.

Satan? I thought it was Maxwell's Demon ....

 

[MQTA]

the Earth is very old, it's the created on this planet that's supposedly only 25,000 years or so

 

[Joman]

Phred:Why are there no isotopes with half lives of less than 80 million years present?

(1). There are many isotopes with half lives far less than 80 million years.

(2). The Bible (AV) doesn't state the earth is 6,000 yrs old.

Joman.


Joman.