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How can we know how old fossils are?
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RE: How can we know how old fossils are?
April 30, 2019 at 3:02 pm
(April 30, 2019 at 2:56 pm)jamesmadison Wrote: Ok but what if it was as hot as the Sun? then would the rocks be able to survive and the radioactive decay?
Is it possible that there are unknown rocks who couldn't survive and we are even older than we think in the earth? That the temperature was that of the Sun or something completely ridiculous and unheard of?

Monkeys might fly out of my butt too.

What you're doing doesn't pass as skepticism, it's ignorance and idiocy.

All of your questions can literally be answered by a google search.
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How can we know how old fossils are?

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How can we know how old fossils are? - by jamesmadison - April 30, 2019 at 2:27 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by Silver - April 30, 2019 at 2:33 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by polymath257 - April 30, 2019 at 3:45 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by Jackalope - April 30, 2019 at 3:02 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by Silver - April 30, 2019 at 2:59 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by Deesse23 - April 30, 2019 at 3:06 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by Jackalope - April 30, 2019 at 3:09 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by Jackalope - April 30, 2019 at 3:10 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by Rhondazvous - April 30, 2019 at 3:29 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by Jackalope - April 30, 2019 at 3:31 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by Rhondazvous - April 30, 2019 at 4:43 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by polymath257 - April 30, 2019 at 10:18 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by no one - April 30, 2019 at 4:54 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by Nay_Sayer - April 30, 2019 at 5:03 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by brewer - April 30, 2019 at 5:57 pm
RE: How can we know how old fossils are? - by madog - May 1, 2019 at 4:52 am

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