(June 12, 2013 at 11:22 pm)Rahul Wrote:(June 12, 2013 at 10:28 pm)Godschild Wrote: You can't date rock.
No, you can't. Very true.
Interesting thing though. As the centuries roll by layer after layer of sediment pile up. Occasionally there is a volcanic eruption or forest fire leaving charred remains in a thin layer sandwhiched between these sediments.
You can date that. Quite easily.
So let's say there was a lava flow and it's dated at 135 million years. Then you have some dirt and what not with a fossilized skeleton of some animal. Then right above that layer is a layer containing charcoal from a forest fire and it's dated at 130 million years.
You can say that this animal probably existed between 135 and 130 million years ago.
And the funny thing is other scientists are doing the same thing all over the world.
And it all seems to be in agreement with each other.
Hrm. What can we deduce from this?
If just one group finds a rabbit or chicken dated to within the Cambrian geological period, well that fucks up everything.
Funny it never happens.
How can you possibly know when a volcano erupted, you can't date rock and carbon dating is not accurate past 50,000 years.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
