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the age of the earth
#1
the age of the earth
They say 4.5 bill years with a range of 50 million years, but how did they not get its exact age? And where did they come up with the number of 50 million? Do you believe scientists really know?
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#2
RE: the age of the earth
Here you go.

Quote:For centuries scholars sought to determine Earth’s age, but the answer had to wait for careful geologic observation, isotopic analyses of the elements and an understanding of radioactive decay
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...the-earth/
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#3
RE: the age of the earth
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Earth

Yes, they really know, with the usual caveat that all scientific knowledge is provisional.

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#4
RE: the age of the earth
But where did they come up with the range of 4.5 bill years but could be off by 50 million, how did they come to that conclusion?
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#5
RE: the age of the earth
https://www.livescience.com/32321-how-is...of%20years.
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#6
RE: the age of the earth
Shesh.
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#7
RE: the age of the earth
(March 19, 2021 at 6:07 pm)jasonelijah Wrote: But where did they come up with the range of 4.5 bill years but could be off by 50 million, how did they come to that conclusion?

*sigh* Since you clearly can’t be bothered to read the links provided, I’ll spoon feed you just this once.

You take a rock and figure out which elements are in it. Since all elements decay over time, you can determine the age of the rock by the percentage of daughter isotopes compared to parent isotopes. Doing this thousands and thousands of times gives you better and better information about older and older rocks. When you stop finding older rocks, you have a pretty good idea of the age of the materials that make up the Earth.

The 50MY error factor is partly a matter of the accuracy of measurements, but mostly due to definitions. Geologists have a certain disagreement as to whether ‘age of the Earth’ refers to the accretion, the formation of the core, or the age of the constituent materials.

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#8
RE: the age of the earth
So they kinda just made up the 50 million and we shouldn't take it seriously?
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#9
RE: the age of the earth
OP, it's 6,000 years old. Don't listen to these idiots!
(I read somewhere that they were even caught burying fake dino bones!)

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#10
RE: the age of the earth
Did you know they use the dirt the fossils are in to determine dino bones and their age?
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