Lechtreck's on crack

[Aaron Klemz]

Korcok sez:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>so, Joey-baby, is the Universe 6,000 years old? God created
>it in 7, literally, seven, days?  Humans walked among the
>dinosaurs?
>>>>>>>>>>>

And Lechtreck pauses to think, and then says:

>Could be. Every aspect of this is certainly defendable.

Okay, I'm game. Defend it. The only proof that the Earth is 6,000 years old
is an analysis of the geneaology of the bible, and has no objective proof to
support it. Most analyses (especially carbon dating. more on that in a
minute) indicate the earth is AT LEAST millions of years old. Human fossils
are never found associated with dinosaur fossils - while I cannot
definitively prove the negative, there is absolutely no evidence to support
that assertion and a host of contra-examples.

>>>>>>>>>>>
>God created the Earth, fossils intact?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>
>Why would s/he have to do that? Fossils can be made in a matter of years.
>Especially easy to do if a great flood were to uproot silt and deposit
>hundreds of feet on the skeleton.

Bob, fossilization doesn't just take "a few years". Try several thousand, at
least. All your conjecture does nothing to explain why certain fossils are
found associated with other fossils. The processes of deposition and erosion
are always working to expose some fossils and create others. The closer in
depth between two objects the more likely they came from the same time
period (roughly.)

Even if you are right, you can't fake carbon dating methods. While certainly
imprecise, the decay of radioactive material occurs at a uniform and
measurable rate. Even if you claim it is inaccurate, there is simply no
objective world that could explain a 6,000 year old earth given the decay of
the radioactive materials inside a fossil.

Don't dignify allegory and metaphor with the ring of absolute truth.

Aaron
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Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.
aklemz at siu.edu

"I'm an accident - I was driving way too fast
couldn't stop though so I let the moment pass
I'm for rollin I'm for tossin in my sleep
It's not guilt though it's not the company I keep ...
I can't hear you but I feel the things you say
I can't see you but I see what's in my way
Now I'm floatin cause I'm not tied to the ground
Words I've spoken seem to leave a hollow sound ...
I'm not present I'm a drug that makes you dream
I'm an aerostar I'm a Cutlass Supreme In the wrong lane
trying to turn against the flow
I'm the ocean, I'm the giant undertow..."
Neil Young, "I'm the ocean"

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