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originally posted by: NorthOfStuff
a reply to: cooperton
I don’t have much if any geological knowledge but for what it’s worth I’ve seen three inch stalactites on the underside of concrete floor slabs in buildings that are less than 30 years old.
I would assume that the buildings weren’t experiencing water leaks from day one so the stalactites must have formed in less than 30 years.
Good thread OP.
originally posted by: Degradation33
a reply to: cooperton
What am I saying? You don't believe in radiocarbon dating or core samples.
What type of rocks are we talking about. Sedimentary, metamorphic, or igneous?
It amusing that you want to try to discredit any narrative that goes longer than 8000 years but.. come on.
What if told you 525-550 million years ago the edge of the continental boundary went through The center of Texas?
And we know this because of the accidentally triggered earthquakes and major sequence earthquakes the winter of 1812.
We can also state things like "The Rocky Mountains are uplift deformation caused the subduction of the Farralon Plate under the North American Plate millions of years ago.
We can actually wind back the clock through all the continental movement and land deformation with a precision that only idiocy argues against.
One the coolest things about the city I live is a mountain park with trails 10 miles from the ocean. And all throughout it you can find million year old sea shells from when the ocean was 400 feet higher.
I think any god you want to believe in is fully capable of a trillion+ year design. And allowing enough time to gradually reveal the world to its special little creations, where ever it creates them. We could even be like a No Mans Whatever for a hyperintelligent god race.
Anything. Just please stop trying to tell me we don't know the exact age of and composition of the earths crust.
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When igneous rocks crystallize, the newly formed minerals contain various amounts of chemical elements, some of which have radioactive isotopes. These isotopes decay within the rocks according to their half-life rates, and by selecting the appropriate minerals (those that contain potassium, for instance) and measuring the relative amounts of parent and daughter isotopes in them, the date at which the rock crystallized can be determined. Most of the large igneous rock masses of the world have been dated in this manner.
originally posted by: Somethingsamiss
a reply to: cooperton
There is a passage in Psalms that says not to lean on your own understanding…