Questions about Evolutionism vs. Creationsim

[downbeatplumb]

That's what I'm starting to think about these posts, too. I'm not on an atheist site to be some random theist's lab rat. Don't just poll us about our thoughts on your classwork and then disappear. Come and have a real conversation with us instead.

Actually, I would like to have a real conversation with you.

Could you explain with some more detail why the earth is billions of years old, and why radiometric dating proves that age? And why remainders of retroviruses prove our relationship to apes? Feel free to throw all the scientific terms at me that you wish, and I'll do my best to understand them.

The earths massive age is proved in many ways radiometric dating is one, radioactive decay is reliable over a large enough sample and reliable enough. But when possible it is corroborated by all available means. Scientist dont tend to slap their hands together and say "thats good enough", they drill down to obtain as much evidence as possible and base their findings on all the evidence, so they check radio dating against tree ring growth and if available records and anything else they can find. in fact all the relevant science agrees that the earth is very old.

In the UK there is a large swathe of the country that is made up of the eroded material of massive mountains, now worn away to nothing.We can see vast layers of sedimentary rocks that have been torn up and layed on the side due to plate tectonics.

But my favourite example is the zircon cycle.

Cubic zirconia is a very hard crystal that forms deep in the earths mantle.
as the earths plates move around they collide and form mountains and in the rocks in the mountain there will be cubic zircons.
Eventually the rocks will be eroded and taken to the sea where after more eons they will be subsumsed and then taken deep in to the ziron forming mantle where most rocks melt but not the zircon where another layer is added and then they are taken up in to mountains and eroded and the whole process starts again.

So we have zircons that build up with layers like onions, with each layer representing millions of years.