Anyone know for sure how old the earth is?

Anyone know for sure how old the earth is?

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Originally posted by KellyJay
It should be simple, I'd like to see 20 independent tests upon an
item all using different methods all coming up with the same answer
too. Is that available or not? If it isn't than I'd say we can lay that to
rest that we need to redefine what the claims really are.
Kelly
Nobody said it had to be the exact same item submitted to 20 differant tests. Again with the obfusication. We said 20 differant methods (at least) have been used to date rocks and the ages agree within a few percent. I assume that is not what you want to here to satisfy your own particular obsession. You want the variance to be on the order of a thousand percent or more, you want one dude to say the earth is 3 million years old and another to say 4.5 billion years old so you can point to the obvious flaws only your innate brilliance can see. Unfortunutely the variation is on the order of a couple percent. Too bad for your obsession with a young earth. That's what you believe isn't it?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Nobody said it had to be the exact same item submitted to 20 differant tests. Again with the obfusication. We said 20 differant methods (at least) have been used to date rocks and the ages agree within a few percent. I assume that is not what you want to here to satisfy your own particular obsession. You want the variance to be on the order of a thousand pe ...[text shortened]... uple percent. Too bad for your obsession with a young earth. That's what you believe isn't it?
"Nobody said it had to be the exact same item submitted to 20 different tests. Again with the obfusication."

I said you need to define your claims, please pray tell, what do you
think you have with your 20 different tests, can you list them and the
same answers from the 20 different tests, or must we hear about them
and not ever get down to what you think you have here and now?

It would be nice if you'd start listing "test and date provided."
Once we have the 20 different types listed and the times they provide
we can do a high level comparison seeing how close they really are,
and from there we can start looking at how they are arriving at this
same figure independently.

If you want to define the claims a little better please do so, so we
know what you really mean, instead of all of the obfuscation.
Kelly

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The Earth is old man! - As old as dirt.

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Originally posted by jaywill
The Earth is old man! - As old as dirt.
That a fact? 🙂
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Originally posted by KellyJay
"Nobody said it had to be the exact same item submitted to 20 different tests. Again with the obfusication."

I said you need to define your claims, please pray tell, what do you
think you have with your 20 different tests, can you list them and the
same answers from the 20 different tests, or must we hear about them
and not ever get down to what you t ...[text shortened]... r please do so, so we
know what you really mean, instead of all of the obfuscation.
Kelly
Here is a link: it shows at least 6 or 7 differant methods. Read it if you will. I think if you read it at all, you won't look at the rest of the links, only to condemn the work.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/radiometric.html

BTW I see the net is now being flooded with bogus creationist crap.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Here is a link: it shows at least 6 or 7 differant methods. Read it if you will. I think if you read it at all, you won't look at the rest of the links, only to condemn the work.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/radiometric.html

BTW I see the net is now being flooded with bogus creationist crap.
Just as I think it is being flooded with atheist crap.

I guess listing 20 different methods and their times in a single post
is to much to ask? The details can be sorted out later, just methods
and dates, can that be done here?
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Originally posted by KellyJay
Just as I think it is being flooded with atheist crap.

I guess listing 20 different methods and their times in a single post
is to much to ask? The details can be sorted out later, just methods
and dates, can that be done here?
Kelly
So six is not enough for starters? I found that just as you could have found it, although buried in all the creationistic BS. You don't want to know so you rely on us to do your work for you. I gave you 7 differant methods in that one link. You answered so fast as to be obvious you did not put any time into actually studying it. If you don't want to even study the 7 methods that link outlined, why should we be bothered with any more, seems a waste of my time.
Here is one more:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051031133533.htm

Wow, I've been at it at least 5 minutes now and found another. Wonder why you can't do the same:
http://paleobiology.si.edu/geotime/main/htmlVersion/foundation_dating4.html

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Originally posted by sonhouse
So six is not enough for starters? I found that just as you could have found it, although buried in all the creationistic BS. You don't want to know so you rely on us to do your work for you. I gave you 7 differant methods in that one link. You answered so fast as to be obvious you did not put any time into actually studying it. If you don't want to even st ...[text shortened]... methods that link outlined, why should we be bothered with any more, seems a waste of my time.
I"m sorry, I don't see a list of methods and the dates here, do you?
Six is a start, but 20 is the goal, once they are listed, here!
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Originally posted by KellyJayAand the dates here, do you?
Six is a start, but 20 is the goal, once they are listed, here!
Kelly[/b]
You don't really give a crap about how many ways have been invented to date the earth, it would not matter if I came up with 50 ways you would just shrug them off with a wave of your godlike hand. Why don't you look again at my previous post and take a look at the two more I found.
Another archeomagnetic dating link: read it and weep,
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/depart/resgrp/archmag/archaeomagnetic_dating.php

Here is a nice one dating the earth by its change in rotation period, coming out at about 2 milliseconds a year:

http://corior.blogspot.com/2006/02/part-5-dating-methods.html

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Originally posted by sonhouse
You don't really give a crap about how many ways have been invented to date the earth, it would not matter if I came up with 50 ways you would just shrug them off with a wave of your godlike hand. Why don't you look again at my previous post and take a look at the two more I found.
You know it would be much easier to just list your methods the dates
they are in agreement with instead of telling me what I care about.
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Originally posted by KellyJay
You know it would be much easier to just list your methods the dates
they are in agreement with instead of telling me what I care about.
Kelly
What do you think I am? I am a photonics technician, I work on light circutry and the machinery involved in semiconductor cleanroom, reactive ion etchers, electron microscopes, optical microscopes, sputtering machines, spinners, coaters and the like. Why do you assume I actually know all the methods? Is that what you are really after, some barb you can stick me with so you can feel better in your own delusional world you are right and the entire cadre of real scientists are wrong?
I was right in my assesment, you will not read anything, you are so deep in your own delusions.

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Originally posted by KellyJay
"Nobody said it had to be the exact same item submitted to 20 different tests. Again with the obfusication."

I said you need to define your claims, please pray tell, what do you
think you have with your 20 different tests, can you list them and the
same answers from the 20 different tests, or must we hear about them
and not ever get down to what you t ...[text shortened]... r please do so, so we
know what you really mean, instead of all of the obfuscation.
Kelly
Why have you said nothing about the article I cited? It draws on about 10 previously written articles, using, I think, 7 or 8 different methods, some on the same rocks, some on different rocks, and always comes up with 4.53 Ga +/- 2%.

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Originally posted by jaywill
The Earth is old man! - As old as dirt.
Older.

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Originally posted by KellyJay
Just as I think it is being flooded with atheist crap.

I guess listing 20 different methods and their times in a single post
is to much to ask? The details can be sorted out later, just methods
and dates, can that be done here?
Kelly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating

gives lots of data.

Now, give us just one scientific reason, with evidence, that the planet is only 6,000 years old.

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Originally posted by KellyJay
I"m sorry, I don't see a list of methods and the dates here, do you?
Six is a start, but 20 is the goal, once they are listed, here!
Kelly
A list of 20 or 19 or 200 has nothing to do with the argument. Get on topic or shut up.