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Where are all the bones?

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Sho' nuff'. Seems I need to brush up on my Scottish.
 
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That is the bandwagon fallacy.

BTW
Here is the irrationality I was referring to:


Anyone who calls that fanatical, evolutionist reaction rational is irrational himself or doesn't know what irrationality is.

Carbon dating only works on things up to about 40,000 years old. Using it on something such as dinosaur bones which are millions of years old will give weird and completely useless results. Dinosaur bones are dated using radiometric dating.

Using carbon dating on disosaur bones suggests either deliberate deception or huge ignorance.
 
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I have heard that fossils do contain measurable amounts of carbon. Perhaps I am misinformed, but if that's true then they cannot be million of years old because at that age they should not have any carbon in them at all, if I'm not mistaken.
 
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I have heard that fossils do contain measurable amounts of carbon. Perhaps I am misinformed, but if that's true then they cannot be million of years old because at that age they should not have any carbon in them at all, if I'm not mistaken.

Here is an excerpt from an in-depth discussion of the controversial issues that have emerged.

 
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Response to the objection
http://www.sciencevsevolution.org/Holzschuh.htm
 
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Perhaps he still uses the word in its archaic form, and not its modern one?


Yes, I did use it as "comprehension" or "understanding".

Thanks for the clarification.
 
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The human capacity for irrationality truly has no bounds!
Then perhaps you need to participate in my "creation science challenge" thread, where I ask for links to creation science papers which contain "original" data and research.
 
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Well, there are Young Earth Scientists who view that discovery as indisputable evidence which proves that the claims of millions of years for such fossils was wrong all along.
And view is all they do. Where is their own original research to show otherwise to back up their claims. I won't hold my breath.

In my reply to you previously I specifically stated that I was not interested in discussion about evolution at this time. I was responding to your suggestion that because soft tissue was revealed that it meant dinosaurs couldn't be millions of years old. Do you know how the fossil was dated?
 
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Then why do they only express opinions, as you are currently doing, instead of presenting original research and data to back up their claims. Where's the meat?
 
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I have heard that fossils do contain measurable amounts of carbon. Perhaps I am misinformed, but if that's true then they cannot be million of years old because at that age they should not have any carbon in them at all, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes, you are misinformed. Carbon, such as that in the collagen, is "in situ" carbon and would not contain any 14C which is necessary for radiocarbon dating.
 
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Then why do they only express opinions, as you are currently doing, instead of presenting original research and data to back up their claims. Where's the meat?


Nothing which poses a danger to the cherished belief in evolution or abiogenesis is ever or will ever be considered meat by atheists. In fact, the stars themselves viewed from Earth as arranging themselves in letter formations which read as Genesis chapter one would be casually explained away as some type of gravitational anomaly. Such a phenomenon is referred to as invincible ignorance and is totally impervious to any reason or evidence.


I once wasted a total of a full six months debating with a group of atheists on a website and no matter the logic which I employed they always said they could not see. Finally, after six months, one of them revealed that he would never admit understanding anything no matter how logical or compelling the evidence might be if it supported religion because, as a morally responsible human being, it was his duty to oppose religion.

Then he went on to recount how he had been religiously traumatized by his fanatical religious parents in his youth and was on a vendetta-like mission for payback.

Since then I try to avoid a repeat. I was forced to place them on ignore in order to clear my screen of all the heckling, snide remarks, veiled insults and mutual back slapping and general buffoonery they were engaging in.
 
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Nothing which poses a danger to the cherished belief in evolution or abiogenesis is ever or will ever be considered meat by atheists.
Look Radrook, lets get one thing straight right now. First of all, when you reply to one of my posts, I exptect it to address what I posted. I specifically stated that I do not care about evolution in this discussion. I asked a specific question yesterday concerning the age of the dinosaur claim you presented yesterday, of which you have presented no discussion. The post you are quoting from now, asks where is the original research and data to support creation science claims. All I ever see is opinions along with irrelevant Gish Gallops. If you think the creation science claims are legitimate, then show meat to back it.

Understand"
 
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Because of the way population growth has worked there are more people alive today than all of our ancestors put together, so there are not an astronomical number of ancestors waiting to be found; far from it.

Also, bones eventually dissolve.
 
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Because of the way population growth has worded there are more people alive today than all of our ancestors put together, so there are not an astronomical number of ancestors waiting to be found; far from it.

Also, bones eventually dissolve.
But archeologists have found numerous ancient bones dating well before 6,000 years. And though you didn't say it, rather the post you quoted did, the bible says nothing about the age of the earth. The only way to get 6,000 years is a non scientific genealogy.
 
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I was answering the question which was asked.

Do you have a question or just statements?
 
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