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RE: How Long Will Christians Wait for the End Time to Come?
August 31, 2015 at 10:00 pm
(August 31, 2015 at 9:23 pm)Godschild Wrote: (August 31, 2015 at 2:32 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Could be a variety of reasons. Maybe bacterial contamination. Maybe radiation in the geology in which the reserve is found. The C14 levels range from close to 1% (like it was deposited yesterday) down to expected levels.
Expected levels are zero.
GC
Got some evidence of that?
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RE: How Long Will Christians Wait for the End Time to Come?
September 2, 2015 at 9:19 am
lkingpinl Wrote:Just reading this discussion makes me understand why you guys have such a high disdain for theists. Are the majority of theists you encounter like this? I'm just sitting here shaking my head.....
Yes, but there's a bit of self-selection going on in atheist forums. We tend to get the 'beard the atheists in their den' theists. In real life, though many of us have had experiences with the kind of theist we most often get here, the more reasonable theists such as yourself are more common.
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RE: How Long Will Christians Wait for the End Time to Come?
September 2, 2015 at 9:21 am
Godschild Wrote:Mister Agenda Wrote:Could be a variety of reasons. Maybe bacterial contamination. Maybe radiation in the geology in which the reserve is found. The C14 levels range from close to 1% (like it was deposited yesterday) down to expected levels.
Expected levels are zero.
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Yes, and.....?
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RE: How Long Will Christians Wait for the End Time to Come?
September 2, 2015 at 9:32 am
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SnakeOilWarrior Wrote:Godschild Wrote:Expected levels are zero.
GC
Got some evidence of that?
Since the half life of C14 is about 5,730 years, which makes it useful for dating carbonaceous material not more than 60,000 years old. All other things being equal, C14 should be vanishingly rare in fossil fuel. I think that's a fair description of the amount of C14 in the fossil fuel with the lowest C14 ratio (chosen for that reason because its used in an observatory) is (thanks Wikipedia) '
14C/
12C ratio of 1.94×10
−18 '.
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RE: How Long Will Christians Wait for the End Time to Come?
September 2, 2015 at 9:35 am
Would I be correct in assuming that since Deep Thinker walked in and completely derailed the topic, he's moved on to fairer pastures?
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RE: How Long Will Christians Wait for the End Time to Come?
September 3, 2015 at 3:52 pm
(September 2, 2015 at 9:35 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Would I be correct in assuming that since Deep Thinker walked in and completely derailed the topic, he's moved on to fairer pastures?
We can always hope.
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