19 Jun '12 10:11>1 edit
Originally posted by karoly aczelYou can forget RJ from getting it. He will never 'get it'.
yes. it was pretty smelly and i got the feeling that they had no running water where they resided. This tribe is one of the few who were not totally wiped out or assimilated (during the whit australia policy).
Actually i think that our family was let into this country in 1980, when the white australia policy was still in place. I feel a bit ashamed " , I am mainly referring to 'aborigonal spirituality', but any other part of my post , too
I probably won't either but I have been around a bit, would loved to have been there.
So what happened to the girl? Did she go to Ayers with you? Did she keep on going with the aborigines?
They sound like very cool people, not violent at all unless they are attacked.
You must have felt something like Carlos Castaneda on his first journey to the Southwest.
RJ: You can skepticize all you want but the real world follows the genius of Carl Popper, the originator of the idea that science works by the concept of falsifiability.
And you can bet there are scientists out there who doubt the uranium method just as you do. He however comes at it with real knowledge and will attempt to prove scientifically the uranium dating technique is full of crap.
He will pursue that until it is proven his method of falsifying the method does not work at which point he will admit he was wrong and the method is accurate.
You on the other hand, have no such background, all you can do and I mean that exactly, ALL you can do is poo poo it with zero scientific backup.
The thing you will never get is all the scientific achievements of the last 100 years have been made using the exact same scientific method, no matter what the science involved.
If its in Geology, Astronomy, Medical research, evolution, whatever, the methods are all the same and if a result happens in a science because of that method, the results are taken on face value, with the given that the results may later prove wrong just like Newtonian Physics had its day but Einstein showed that space can bend time and mass can bend space so Newtonian physics is valid up to a point but for more advanced work, Einsteinian physics gives better predictions that has held up to 100 years of extreme scrutiny by the new boys on the block trying to falsify Einstein, which hasn't happened yet, the latest being the neutrino's going faster than the speed of light which was falsified in itself so Einstein won that round, again.
So in the end you might be right about dating techniques but not because you just go 'god did it so all science is wrong that goes against the bible' but because real science put in the effort which in some cases takes decades to bear fruit to make the new result believable.
You have NOTHING believable and never will. ALL you have is Poo Poo this and Poo Poo that but only in fields where the science contradicts the bible.
That is where you fall down, because all sciences use the same method so if you diss evolution you diss ALL sciences whether you think so or not.
Like I have said before, you and your ilk are destined for the dust bin of history.