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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: The age of the earth]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Scientists are wrong because I want to drive a big car and not pay taxes.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Danimation]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-06-06T05:36:25Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=MindGame]I'm taking a class on the solar system at the moment,[/quote]
Our class has been learning about space in general, for the last few weeks! :P  We've mainly focused on our solar system though.

Anyways, are you counting before the other huge impact with Theia still our planet being formed? Earth only existed for about 10 million years before that happened, so it wouldn't make much difference at all, but still, I'm rather OCD about getting everything just right.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[BGanimations]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-18T00:18:03Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: The age of the earth]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[The approximated age of the Earth is around 4.54 billion years old. I'm taking a class on the solar system at the moment, and we've gone over the origins of it and its planetary bodies fairly extensively.

Of course, that's not to say that the Earth has been in its solid, terrestrial state for four and a half billion years, but the accretion of the various elements that make up the Earth has been in process for that long.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[MindGame]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-17T23:56:36Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Smeagol has good points on the matter. 

Bloogyo, have you ever researched science? Or did you just take a quick look at it, and decided it was false?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Scypax]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-17T16:55:38Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[Same here, I was taught that it was around that old.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[bloogyo]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-16T18:11:08Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I was taught that the earth is, like, 10,000 years old, read lots of books on the subject and such and believed it at one time, but I have to say I don't find the case for it very compelling anymore.  There are plenty of reasons to believe the universe to be older, carbon dating is one but also things like the grand canyon and other rock erosion, this sort of thing happens too slowly to occur in a few hundred years due to flooding as some suggest.  Astronomy also makes a good case for the universe being much older; light from far away galaxies and other celestial bodies takes millions of years to travel here and we can see them.  I'm a Christian but I guess I don't see a reason to think God would set the universe up to appear much older than it is.  It's not really a major theological issue to me at this point.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Sméagol]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-16T17:42:44Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[(I haven't seen the some of the above posts.)

Hey guys, I'm sorry for bringing this up.  Like dukeboy said I should've kept my mouth shut.  I wasn't actually trying to debate the age of the earth.  That kinda evolved from a flaw in my original argument.  I'd rather be wrong and sorry than stubborn and right only to myself.

So if you guys say the earth is billions of years old, that's great.  One again I apologize, this is a habit I've really been trying to break.  I'm sorry for starting this age debate and I hope this blows over.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[bloogyo]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-16T14:56:19Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: The age of the earth]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=bloogyo]Whether 6000 years or billions of years, both viewpoints (and everything in between) rest on faith and assumptions."[/quote]
*Facepalm* Science actually can use two (I think) different methods to test how old something is. The first it what Keshen said a while up there about the decaying of particles, and another is that scientists look at about the oldest rock they can find (which is way older than 6,000 years by the way).

I also think there's another way, but I'm in a bit of a hurry right now so I have to go. Sorry.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[BGanimations]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-16T13:27:50Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=bloogyo]OK, I'm going to be relentless here:

      If green house gases really are causing our planet to warm up, and our planet is millions of years old... Wouldn't it be flaming hot by now?

   [/quote]

Well, the earth does have periods of great heat and of great cold, the reason for the more recent global warming can be put down to the industrial revolution from the 1700s onwards. Before then not much new Greenhouse Gases were added to the atmosphere, allowing a good balance between hot and cold to go on. From the 1700s onwards, the human race began to burn fuel such as coal on a industrial scale. This has continued to the present day, adding more and more gas.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Just_a_Minifig]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-16T12:03:38Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=bloogyo]Scientists who advocate the younger age of about 6000 years insist that radiometric dating is flawed in that it is founded upon a series of faulty assumptions, while the geologic timescale is flawed in that it employs circular reasoning.[/quote]
O RLY?]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[BertL]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-16T10:37:09Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[bloogyo, what you're saying is essentially wrong. I did a ton of debating on the subject a few years ago and don't really feel like resuming it, but you are misinformed. I hope you'll realize that at some point. Go read about it. 

Young-earth creationism isn't a "reexamination" of facts, it's a last-ditch attempt to justify a literal view of the Bible.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Night Owl]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-16T05:33:54Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[I agree with bloogyo, scientists don't know what they're talking about. It's not like science has any basis on fact.


I'm kind of curious how you've come to this conclusion, becuase it semmes like you've been sitting around your parents while they're !@#$%^&* about the carbon tax to other SUV friends. Also, Global warming has been proven, though its not realistic to say that humans have actually influenced it.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Riley]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-16T05:15:21Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=bloogyo]Please explain.[/quote]

Ok, I will.


Saying things like that when at least 80% of active users on this site have a different view then you on this subject isn't a good idea because you will get automatically facepalm spammed throughout the entire thread.

I'm totally for speaking your mind on things, but sometimes you need to know when to keep your mouth shut on these matters.]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Duke Boy]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-16T00:50:42Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[[quote=bloogyo]OK, I'm tired of getting facepalmed.  

"What about the billions of years accepted by most scientists today and taught in the vast majority of our academic institutions? This age is primarily derived from two dating techniques: radiometric dating and the geologic timescale. Scientists who advocate the younger age of about 6000 years insist that radiometric dating is flawed in that it is founded upon a series of faulty assumptions, while the geologic timescale is flawed in that it employs circular reasoning. Moreover, they point to the debunking of old-earth myths, like the popular misconception that it takes long periods of time for stratification, fossilization and the formation of diamonds, coal, oil, stalactites, stalagmites, etc, to occur. Finally, young-earth advocates present positive evidence for a young age for the earth in place of the old-earth evidences which they debunk. Young-earth scientists acknowledge that they are in the minority today but insist that their ranks will swell over time as more and more scientists reexamine the evidence and take a closer look at the currently accepted old-earth paradigm.

Ultimately, the age of the earth cannot be proven. Whether 6000 years or billions of years, both viewpoints (and everything in between) rest on faith and assumptions."[/quote]

*facepalm*]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Keshen]]></name>
				<uri>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/user/235/</uri>
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			<updated>2010-05-16T00:24:18Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[OK, I'm tired of getting facepalmed.  

"What about the billions of years accepted by most scientists today and taught in the vast majority of our academic institutions? This age is primarily derived from two dating techniques: radiometric dating and the geologic timescale. Scientists who advocate the younger age of about 6000 years insist that radiometric dating is flawed in that it is founded upon a series of faulty assumptions, while the geologic timescale is flawed in that it employs circular reasoning. Moreover, they point to the debunking of old-earth myths, like the popular misconception that it takes long periods of time for stratification, fossilization and the formation of diamonds, coal, oil, stalactites, stalagmites, etc, to occur. Finally, young-earth advocates present positive evidence for a young age for the earth in place of the old-earth evidences which they debunk. Young-earth scientists acknowledge that they are in the minority today but insist that their ranks will swell over time as more and more scientists reexamine the evidence and take a closer look at the currently accepted old-earth paradigm.

Ultimately, the age of the earth cannot be proven. Whether 6000 years or billions of years, both viewpoints (and everything in between) rest on faith and assumptions."]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[bloogyo]]></name>
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			<updated>2010-05-16T00:19:30Z</updated>
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