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Who do you think is best atheist of our times?
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 (January 5, 2019 at 10:30 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There's a largish rock in my front garden. It has never given any indication that it believes in gods, minds its own business, and doesn't go about pissing people off for the sole purpose of pissing people off. I own a meteorite. The age of my rock beats your rock of ages. 
I like Hitchens...
But I’ve always had a crush on Bill Maher. That man si so fine, he so fine, he so fine... And I don’t care what people say. 
"Hipster is what happens when young hot people do what old ladies do." -Exian
 (January 5, 2019 at 11:45 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(January 5, 2019 at 10:30 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: There's a largish rock in my front garden. It has never given any indication that it believes in gods, minds its own business, and doesn't go about pissing people off for the sole purpose of pissing people off. Well, you can't possibly know that, but OK. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
 RE: Who do you think is best atheist of our times?
January 5, 2019 at 3:25 pm
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GGG, товарищ, better get yourself busy with work and don't torture yourself with religious topics too much.
  (January 5, 2019 at 3:35 pm)GGG Wrote:(January 5, 2019 at 10:26 am)wyzas Wrote: Why isn't my name on that list? Of course I do. You just haven't met any of them yet.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
RE: Who do you think is best atheist of our times?
January 5, 2019 at 6:11 pm
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(January 5, 2019 at 2:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 5, 2019 at 11:45 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: I own a meteorite. The age of my rock beats your rock of ages. Yes I can. Virtually every meterorite that falls on earth is significantly older than the oldest rock ever found on earth or ever likely to be found on earth that is not itself a meterorite.  RE: Who do you think is best atheist of our times?
January 5, 2019 at 6:27 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2019 at 6:28 pm by LadyForCamus.)
Bill Maher is an anti-vaxer. He shouldn’t even be on this list if we’re taking about people who use media outlets to advocate for science and rational skepticism.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken. (January 5, 2019 at 6:11 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(January 5, 2019 at 2:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Well, you can't possibly know that, but OK. Not necessarily. https://meteorites.asu.edu/meteorites/meteorite-facts Quote:Meteorites range in age. The oldest particles in a meteorite, calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions from carbonaceous chondrites, have been dated at 4.56 billion years old. Meteorites that originate from asteroids are all ~4.5 billion years old. Meteorites that originate from the Moon range in age from 4.5 to 2.9 billion years old. Meteorites that originate on Mars range in age from 4.5 billion years old to 200 million years old. https://www.livescience.com/43584-earth-...ircon.html Quote:Well, scientists just took one of geology's biggest controversies and shrunk it down to atomic size. By zapping single atoms of lead in a tiny zircon crystal from Australia, researchers have confirmed the crystal is the oldest rock fragment ever found on Earth — 4.375 billion years old, plus or minus 6 million years. So, then. The oldest reliably dated Earth rock is 4.4 byo. Meteorites can be as young as 200 myo. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
RE: Who do you think is best atheist of our times?
January 5, 2019 at 8:06 pm
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Yes, but vast majority of meterorites did not originate from the moon or mars, and all those that didn’t come from the moon or mars dates to around 4.56 billion years ago, or just before the earth was formed. I have an iron meterorite, it originated from the core of a sizeable differentiated body that was later shattered. So it certainly did not originate from the moon or mars and almost certainly is 4.56 billion years old.
In any case, no earth rock dates to more than 4.0 billion years. What you refer to are the ages of zircon crystals contained in younger metamorphosed sedimentary rocks. That is hugely different from saying the rock is 4.4 billion years, just as a building built 50 years ago from 100 million year old rocks is 50 years old, not 100 million years old. The existence of 4.4 billion year old zircon does prove there were zircon containing igneous rocks forming on earth 4.4 billion years ago. These rocks were then eroded into debris, some of the debris were the zircon crystals in them ended up in sediments that later turned into sedimentary rock. Over time these sedimentary rocks became deeply buried and turned into metamorphic gneiss. It is these much younger gneiss wth embedded debris from 4.4 year old rocks we found, not actual 4.4 billion year old earth rocks. So my meterorite is bonafides 4.56 billion years old. The oldest actual rock still on earth is only 4 billion years old. There are relative few rocks on earth more than 2.8 billion years old. So the chance of your earth rock coming anywhere close in age to 4 billion years is slim. And its chance being as old as my 4.56 billion year old meterorite is zero. |
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