Originally posted by tacoman528
Please see one of my previous posting for a list of reason why the earth is less than 6000 years old.
Your list was refuted.
goto www-drdino-com for even more reasons.
"Dr. Dino" is
not a scientist, nor have his arguments withstood scrutiny. You're going to have to do better than this if you want to debate this topic. That is, you ought to bring in
scientific evidence.
And I would appreciate some evidence as to why the earth is more than 10,000 years old. Before you say RADIOCARBON!!! be sure to see Dr. Hovind's explanation for that at his website near the top of this message.
This just shows how you don't even know what you're talking about and don't even really know what you think you're refuting.
Radiocarbon dating is
not used to determine the age of the Earth. This first misconception you made illustrates perfectly how you don't even know the scientific methods used to date the Earth, but you have already assumed that they are false.
C-14 has a half life of approximately 5000 years. We use isotopic systems whose parent nuclides have much longer half-lives. U-Pb, Rb-Sr, Sm-Rb, K-Ar, and even extinct nuclide systems like Al-26/Mg-26 can provide relative dates that far exceed 6000 years. In fact, even my geochemistry professor this past semester recently published a paper on his calculations of the Xenon closure age of the Earth which also corresponds to dates from decaying isotopes measured in chondritic meteorites.
Furthermore, even before radiometric dating systems were used, geologists inferred an old earth from simply looking at multiple lines of evidence--the time required for fossilization, sedimentary deposition rates, stalactite formation rates, evidence of migrating glaciers, etc. The latter half of the 20th century also saw new advances in the field of paleomagnetism which established old ages to account for continental drift. We also know more about plate tectonics now and from geophysical exploration can determine how fast plates are moving. Geophysicists can also determine the cooling time for magma bodies by conduction with the surrounding country rock which, in some cases of large intrusions, gives a large time period.
Every piece of "evidence" for a 6000 year old earth is either a misconception and twisting of the evidence to fit someone's interpretation of the Bible, or it is in conflict with standard scientific principles (thermodynamics, kinetics, etc.). And there is certainly no "evidence" for a 6000 year old earth that makes any of the above evidence for an extremely old earth go away. That's a lot of evidence we have for an old earth, yet none of it has been refuted.
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