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How old is the Earth?

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How old is the Earth?
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RE: How old is the Earth?
October 13, 2010 at 8:57 am
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RE: How old is the Earth?
October 13, 2010 at 10:02 am
A trolling we will go.

A trolling we will go, hi ho the merry-o,

a trolling we will go.......
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RE: How old is the Earth?
October 13, 2010 at 1:46 pm
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
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RE: How old is the Earth?
October 13, 2010 at 2:05 pm (This post was last modified: October 13, 2010 at 2:07 pm by Statler Waldorf.)
(October 13, 2010 at 3:56 am)Chuck Wrote: In the 21st century an adult presumably having access to a real education could not get much more yokelish than believing the earth the earth to be less 12,000 years old, unless he was to also believe a ship once preserved all the animals liable to drown in a world wide flood, or that world was made by a bronze age beduin sky god in 7 of some sort of days. There is nothing ad hominem about calling such a yokel a yokel, nor calling him a troll when he trolls.

Present your presuppositions and conclusions about the age of the earth first to suggest your good "faith", or shut up.
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More assertions. You didn't identify your assumptions and presuppositions- you just tried to backup (poorly I might add) your ad hominem ways. You fail lol.

P.S. God created in 6 days, not 7. Education matters.

(October 13, 2010 at 5:02 am)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote:
(October 13, 2010 at 3:37 am)Statler Waldorf Wrote: I don't think you got all of your assumptions down. If you ascribe to Radiometric dating you must first assume that the radiometric decay has been constant. You must then also assume that there were no daughter elements present at the formation of the Earth correct?

What other assumptions are you looking for me to provide?
I do assume radiometric dating is relatively constant.
I do assume that there were no daughter elements present at the formation of the Earth.

Ok great! Now we are getting somewhere. Thanks for answering the question. So do you also assume that all natural rates of decay have been constant?

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RE: How old is the Earth?
October 13, 2010 at 2:08 pm
Quote:God created in 6 days, not 7.


Well that answers my question. Just one more fundie shithead.
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RE: How old is the Earth?
October 13, 2010 at 2:11 pm
I wonder how long this one will last Thinking
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RE: How old is the Earth?
October 13, 2010 at 2:12 pm (This post was last modified: October 13, 2010 at 2:16 pm by Ace Otana.)
(October 13, 2010 at 2:08 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:God created in 6 days, not 7.


Well that answers my question. Just one more fundie shithead.

Don't tell me he's a creationist.

Well that does explain a few things.
Quote:I wonder how long this one will last
Not very long I think.

To think, 5 years ago I didn't think it was possible that people can be this....uneducated.
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Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.

Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.

You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: How old is the Earth?
October 13, 2010 at 2:14 pm (This post was last modified: October 13, 2010 at 2:18 pm by Statler Waldorf.)
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RE: How old is the Earth?
October 13, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Statler, again, please produce an introduction thread.

Everyone else, easy does it, alright? Tongue
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RE: How old is the Earth?
October 13, 2010 at 2:22 pm
(October 13, 2010 at 2:19 pm)Shell B Wrote: Statler, again, please produce an introduction thread.

Everyone else, easy does it, alright? Tongue


Yup, I am working on it.

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