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How can we know how old fossils are?
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LadyForCamus don't be perverted. I am a Theist and proud of my creator. Viva La Jesus, hell he's my gardener.
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(April 30, 2019 at 3:06 pm)jamesmadison Wrote: LadyForCamus don't be perverted. I am a Theist and proud of my creator. Viva La Jesus, hell he's my gardener.

Nobody's being perverted. These are standard questions that every new forum member gets asked. What'ya take us for? Some lamoid Christo forum?

Answer the question!
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RE: How can we know how old fossils are?
(April 30, 2019 at 3:06 pm)jamesmadison Wrote: LadyForCamus don't be perverted. I am a Theist and proud of my creator. Viva La Jesus, hell he's my gardener.

Well, your argument: “maybe science is wrong, therefore Jebus” is pretty terrible.
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Obvious sock is obvious.
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(April 30, 2019 at 3:09 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Aw! I hardly got to play with him Sad

You had your chance yesterday. Tongue
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"If God is all powerful..."
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(April 30, 2019 at 2:27 pm)jamesmadison Wrote: Thnk about this, water they say causes decay of rocks, well how do we know that there weren't great floods that altered how old we think those rocks are? We also don't know for a fact the atmospheric conditions throuhgout history, so even though we can determine how rocks age in the present in our lifetime, we can know that something turns into something over 10 years persea, how can we know it changed to this degree over millions and millions of years not knowing the atmospher? Also if rain causes rock decay and water does, then that alters how old we think it is, in another words, if the water makes it older than it isn't really older. Does this make you think maybe science isn't all that accurate and those supposed evolutionary bones may not be old at all but different creatures just popping up around the same time? How can geology explain this?

Does rock decay and weathering disprove rock dating and other forms b/c it's decaying from atmosphere and not natural and how can we know which is which?

You brought up some valid points. There's nothing wrong with asking how scientists do things. If they have something other than divine revelation to back them up, they will welcome questions.

I may be wrong, but you seem to be proffering Noah's flood as an explanation for the apparent aged look of the rocks of the earth. I'm no scientist, but I know they dom more than just look at a rock and decide that it looks old. Water may account for wear and tear. However, it has nil effect on the decay of carbon 14 atomsin rocks that scientists use to date them. Your argument would hold water (pun excusable) if scientists were just looking at how old rock looks. Carbon 14 are carbon that have 14 neutrons.

You must have at least a rudimentary understanding of carbon dating before you decide scientists don't know what they're talking about.
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Rhonda -

C14 dating isn't used for rocks as it's half life is far too short. Other methods like Argon-Argon are used.
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