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For one who calls the creation science literature the devils toolbox, one again you seem to support it.
What the yom does Thalidomide have to do with the earth during the Creation Week?
 
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No 57, you are talking with someone who has actually been in a radiocarbon lab. Diamonds contain absolutely no organic material unless it is contamination on the surface. Radiocarbon dating can only date organically formed material which received it 14C from the carbon cycle. Your argument is beyond silly.

"Diamonds contain absolutely no organic material unless"...they're not as old as you think.
 
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"Diamonds contain absolutely no organic material unless"...they're not as old as you think.
You are ignoring the fact that all diamonds containing 14C are a result of "in situ" conditions, not to mention no diamonds are dated by the 14C method. They are dated from inclusions as described in the full access paper I linked for you. Your argument besides being completely baseless in completely made up.
 
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Adam & Eve were created, having maturity without history.

And that maturity didn't include a belly button, apparently?

They did not 'lack the ability to follow a simple instruction.'

Then why didn't they follow it?
 
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You are ignoring the fact that all diamonds containing 14C are a result of "in situ" conditions, not to mention no diamonds are dated by the 14C method. They are dated from inclusions as described in the full access paper I linked for you. Your argument besides being completely baseless in completely made up.

I'm not ignoring it.....I completely refuted you. Move on.
 
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I'm not ignoring it.....I completely refuted you. Move on.
You didn't refute anything. You expressed an uninformed opinion. To refute you need to show data to the contrary of what I stated. Don't forget that I also previously linked a full paper containing data supporting what I said.
 
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You didn't refute anything. You expressed an uninformed opinion. To refute you need to show data to the contrary of what I stated. Don't forget that I also previously linked a full paper containing data supporting what I said.

The opinion was quite informed. RATE pretty much explained it.
So, that means you now have to trash talk RATE. Trash talk is your best defense.
 
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The opinion was quite informed. RATE pretty much explained it.
So, that means you now have to trash talk RATE. Trash talk is your best defense.
You have not demonstrated how RATE quantifies young diamonds. No one including RATE has ever dated a diamond using the radiocarbon method.

Would you like to engage me in a FORMAL DEBATE concerning the age a diamonds in the Formal debates forum?
 
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You have not demonstrated how RATE quantifies young diamonds. No one including RATE has ever dated a diamond using the radiocarbon method.

Would you like to engage me in a FORMAL DEBATE concerning the age a diamonds in the Formal debates forum?

There is no reason to. I have already show that the C14 wasn't due to "in situ" conditions.
 
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It was a previous thread. Currently I don't feel like looking for it.
57, you have not presented any evidence whatsoever to support anything you have said about the age of diamonds in any thread. Again, I challenge you to a formal moderated debate on the subject. Will you accept?
 
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57, you have not presented any evidence whatsoever to support anything you have said about the age of diamonds in any thread. Again, I challenge you to a formal moderated debate on the subject. Will you accept?

I'm tempted...but I'm not sure I have the time to do a good job.

What I do know is that the amounts found inside the diamonds, coal is of such a value that the source...you call "in sito" would have had to been enourmous...and we know there wasn't enough material to do what you claimed.
 
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Why not? Says who? All pictures (art) I see of them have a belly button.
A belly button is a part of the Omphalos hypothesis.

In fact, Omphalos means "navel."
 
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More like deceptive pictures (art).
I don't believe in the literal creation, however, if I did I see no reason why they would not have a belly button. I also see no reason for them to be full adults at time of creation either.
 
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I don't believe in the literal creation, however, if I did I see no reason why they would not have a belly button.
It would stand as a testimony as to they being created and not born.

Adam & Eve lived for hundreds of years and were seen by many generations.

Therefore a lack of a belly button would attest to the veracity of their claims.
 
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