(April 18, 2013 at 7:37 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: As far as I am concerned the elements went through a period of greatly accelerated decay in the past much like our hypothetical human would have gone through a period of accelerated growth earlier in his lifetime to throw off the other two methods.
You say "as far as I am concerned." So this is not a proven claim, but one you feel is valid for correcting the measurements that indicate an 'old' Earth?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
