March 13th, 2003, 11:49 PM
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Re: [OT] Plato\'s Pub and Philosophical Society
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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
That is wrong. The ages of rocks are calculated from the half-lives of and relative levels of Carbon, Uranium, and a few other substances in the rocks. This has nothing at all to do with the theory of evolution, and is in no way circular reasoning.
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Having now double checked at my school's library, I find "most" is a sever exaggeration - however, it is used. Earth in Upheaval by Immanuel Velikovsky on page 215 says "Coal is found in layers that are ascribed to various ages mainly on the basis of fissils found in them" and in Dating the Past Fredrick E Zeuner says "Many forms of life existed for comparitively short persiod only and therefore afford valuable data for the correlation of strata in distant places" on page 307.
Oh, and Fyron, when you contradict someone outright, it is common courtesy to include a source.
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Of course, by the time I finish this post, it will already be obsolete. C'est la vie.
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