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  1. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    Sorry, no. The chance that there would be agreement by chance alone is tiny. And, when we have multiple occurrence of agreement, it is virtually impossible. The Mississippi flows at rate that can be measured. We can estimate how far a body can drift over a particular period of time and find...
  2. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    The concurrence strongly argues against that they could be bogus or coincidental. Unless you are accusing the researchers of just fudging things, you are showing a general lack of understanding of inferential statistics. Stop with the insults. If we can establish that isotopes decay...
  3. Skeeter

    Is the Desert just another Ocean?

    Maybe I have a PhD in litigation like Trump.
  4. Skeeter

    Is the Desert just another Ocean?

    I was a Boy Scout only briefly.
  5. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    Explain the similarity, genius. Different isotopes have different decay rates and some overlap in their range, so they can be compared in many situations. If they concur, that is great corroborating evidence. It is a wonder why you call other's ideas fairy tales, just-so stories, and...
  6. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    Bunk! Radiometric dating"s assumptions are no more difficult to accept than the assumptions we have in regard to a yardstick. You do not have to isolate the origins of the wheel to drive a car!!
  7. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    This is actually a semi-rational statement. Scientific Theories contain overarching organizing principles but also have a cutting edge. The cutting edge needs continual correction.
  8. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    Yeah right, just like I need to know the basis of the Big Bang to talk evolution? No way.
  9. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    A rock can be dated by radiometric dating, but not most fossils. They are embedded in rock so it makes sense to date the surrounding rock. Radiometric dating is cross-checked by comparing it to estimates of the strata. marke tries to create a false circularity here. Circular reasoning is...
  10. Skeeter

    Is the Desert just another Ocean?

    You might be thinking of the God of the old testament, not Jesus.
  11. Skeeter

    Is the Desert just another Ocean?

    I've had some doubts since Trump's election. A Democratic Republic with three branches of government and an executive cabinet (with power to remove a President) can weed out the Wackos but it is too slow for my taste.
  12. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    This is only an outline of an explanation. Which cannot be safely assumed? What starting conditions, besides no material with a particular isotope, are limiting? Constant decay rates can be assumed when there is no evidence of conditions that would alter it. Each isotope decays uniformly...
  13. Skeeter

    Is the Desert just another Ocean?

    He should run a campaign and see if He is elected.
  14. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    The results of radiometric dating is good support. Why do you think it is unreliable?
  15. Skeeter

    Hooray For Pedophilia!

    The phrase does not forgive you from making a bad interpretation. My words cannot be seen to even indirectly lead to the implication you made. Your link is worthless beyond its historical value. Medical science like all science is forever improving. The medical understanding of homosexuality...
  16. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    I gave you a list of authors and that was horrible and off topic. You give me one and that is entirely appropriate? Are you trying to be consistent? Do you even know what being consistent means? I am trying to conform to YOUR earlier requirements and discuss the science rather than name...
  17. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    A flood for a year should show a signature sedimentary layer at a consistent time across the earth and a mass die out in the same layer. No such thing has been found. Instead we see sedimentary layers accumulated over time. Predicably lower layers have fossil specimens of forms of earlier...
  18. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    That is a good introductory sentence. You need to fill in the details and layer in the analysis. Your work has just begun. Fossilizing your head might be the best way for us to get some knowledge out of it. You need to explain how and why we should understand them as consistent first. Then I...
  19. Skeeter

    How does one determine, using the scientific method, that the earth is billions of years old?

    No need to repeat off topic comments. Progress! Nice! Explain this. There is absolutely no evidence of a global flood. We see floods locally via geological analysis, but nothing widespread. What is the evidence of large flood regions? Yes! Speak of the contrary evidence AND debunk the...
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