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All the long age dating techniques have been proven to be false as they vastly vary in measuring the age of the same thing – part 2

exchemist

Veteran Member
Genes are slowly degraded over time due to mutations,
The law of entropy also applies to genetic information.
This, like much of the science you post, is false (Satan at work again?).

There are repair mechanisms in the cell that prevent accumulation of errors, and as a back-up, a self-destruct mechanism for cells in which a repair cannot be made. DNA repair - Wikipedia

So while it is of course true that cellular processes are, like everything else subject to entropy (there is no "law" of entropy by the way), that does not lead to degradation of function.
 

SavedByTheLord

Well-Known Member
This, like much of the science you post, is false (Satan at work again?).

There are repair mechanisms in the cell that prevent accumulation of errors, and as a back-up, a self-destruct mechanism for cells in which a repair cannot be made. DNA repair - Wikipedia

So while it is of course true that cellular processes are, like everything else subject to entropy (there is no "law" of entropy by the way), that does not lead to degradation of function.
Errors happen each time with each new offspring despite the error checking band correction .
This genetic load increases all the time in every species.
Thus that sets a limit on how long life has existed and it is much less than millions of years.
 

exchemist

Veteran Member
Errors happen each time with each new offspring despite the error checking band correction .
This genetic load increases all the time in every species.
Thus that sets a limit on how long life has existed and it is much less than millions of years.
This is completely false.

Get thee behind me, Satan.
 

AdamjEdgar

Active Member
There are repair mechanisms in the cell that prevent accumulation of errors, and as a back-up, a self-destruct mechanism for cells in which a repair cannot be made.
I haven't read the Wikipedia article yet, however, due to personal family experience with cancer, I would challenge that claim as false. I would argue that cancer is proof that is not what reliably occurs.

Update
And now I have read the Wikipedia article, I note that the failure of the repair mechanisms is usually due to environmental factors. This is consistent with the biblical model I think in that environmental change at the time of the flood onwards, has caused significant issues for us in terms of health and longevity.
 
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Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
This thread reminds me of an episode of Moral Orel.
Doughy asks Morel Puppington what he got for
one of the questions on the science test.
Moral responds...."Jesus".
 

Alekdar

Member
All the long age dating techniques have been proven to be false as they vastly vary in measuring the age of the same thing – part 2

From part 1 of this series or threads, the evidence shows that radioactive dating of things with a known young age yield vastly large and inconsistent dates. So, the technique is unreliable. In these cases, the error range is as large as the measured value which means an age 6000 years or less is within the error range. Some of these measurements have a percent error approaching 40 billion percent.

But the evidence also shows that radioactive dating using either the same isotope or different isotopes, even using isochrons, yield very different dates on same things.

Here is the evidence.

Does Radiometric Dating Prove the Earth Is Old?

Radiometric dating and old ages in disarray

Radioisotope Dating of Rocks in the Grand Canyon

Radioisotope Dating of Grand Canyon Rocks: Another Devastating Failure for Long-Age Geology

The Faith of Radiometric Dating - Creation Moments

https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1430&context=icc_proceedings

https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1180&context=icc_proceedings

The Question of Time

These sites also show vastly varying dates but from known historical events.

The Iconic Isochron: Radioactive Dating, Part 2

Radioactive dating anomalies

"Excess Argon": The "Archilles' Heel" of Potassium-Argon and Argon-Argon "Dating" of Volcanic Rocks

More and More Wrong Dates

The rock layers cannot be dated by these techniques and using the fossils they contain, including index fossils, is just pure circular reasoning with no data at all. The rock layers are dated by the assumed age of the rock layers and the assumed age of the fossils they contain. And the fossils are dated by the assumed age of the rocks that contain them.
Hey hey!
So i've read the first one, and it's pretty much spot on, minus in it's conclusive argument.
It's true that Helium is quite fleeting, and they found a lot of helium as a subproduct of that decay, therefore there's too much helium and it couldn't have passed all that time, or decay was greatly accelerated. Well no :D The structure they analyze, Zircons, have a cristaline structure a very stable, very strong structure, if those zircons were exposed to high temperatures, that helium would have been lost, but thousands of degrees are not always present, like in this case, so nothing forced that helium out, it's not that it was accelerated nuclear decay, rather Zircons are pretty good at keeping things inside :D
Cheers!
 

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
Genes are slowly degraded over time due to mutations,
The law of entropy also applies to genetic information.
Scientifically, that's not how entropy works.

When dealing with scientific evidence it's best to use actual scientific sources that are not linked to pseudo-science. It's mindboggling to me how some of those supposed "Christians" can invent and/or pass on bogus "evidence"-- but all too many do.
 

SavedByTheLord

Well-Known Member
Scientifically, that's not how entropy works.

When dealing with scientific evidence it's best to use actual scientific sources that are not linked to pseudo-science. It's mindboggling to me how some of those supposed "Christians" can invent and/or pass on bogus "evidence"-- but all too many do.
It sure does.
Entropy is the destruction of order and does it to all ordered things.
Genetic load does increase in all species and puts an upper limit on the age of all living things.
And it is way less than billions or millions of years.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Well the books were chosen by the apostles which includes Paul.
Many refer to each other especially when the NT quotes the OT.
Of the 27 NT books all are written by an apostle except Mark, Luke and Acts.
Actually the Catholic Church wrote most of the Bible themselves since they had complete exclusivity to the entire collection of books based on whatever fragments if any they had back in the day if any.

Nobody was even allowed to possession of the Bible unless the Catholic Church allowed it which I don't think they did for which I can only think the church prescribed appropriate punishments for such infractions.

I'm sure there were innumerable gaps in the Bible so the Catholic church just filled in by their own scribes to make it a complete collection of books.
 

SavedByTheLord

Well-Known Member
Actually the Catholic Church wrote most of the Bible themselves since they had complete exclusivity to the entire collection of books based on whatever fragments if any they had back in the day if any.

Nobody was even allowed to possession of the Bible unless the Catholic Church allowed it which I don't think they did for which I can only think the church prescribed appropriate punishments for such infractions.

I'm sure there were innumerable gaps in the Bible so the Catholic church just filled in by their own scribes to make it a complete collection of books.
The RCC did not write the Bible.
The RCC did not exist before the 3rd century.
The KJB is one of most anti Catholic books ever.
If the RCC wrote the Bible, why didn’t they write one that agreed with their doctrine?
The RCC does back the Big Bang, evolution and billions of years, so that also proves these false.
 

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
It sure does.
Entropy is the destruction of order and does it to all ordered things.
Genetic load does increase in all species and puts an upper limit on the age of all living things.
And it is way less than billions or millions of years.
After you were born, did you grow?

Think about this and then maybe apply it to our conversation.
 

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
The RCC did not write the Bible.
The RCC did not exist before the 3rd century.
In one sense you're right: the Church did not use Roman until after the Great Schism. However, the 4th century Church the selected your canon is very much was the Church of Jesus and the Apostles.
 

SavedByTheLord

Well-Known Member
In one sense you're right: the Church did not use Roman until after the Great Schism. However, the 4th century Church the selected your canon is very much was the Church of Jesus and the Apostles.
No.
The RCC was never the church.
Ans the cannon existed since before 70 AD.
 

TagliatelliMonster

Veteran Member
All the long age dating techniques have been proven to be false as they vastly vary in measuring the age of the same thing – part 2

From part 1 of this series or threads, the evidence shows that radioactive dating of things with a known young age yield vastly large and inconsistent dates. So, the technique is unreliable. In these cases, the error range is as large as the measured value which means an age 6000 years or less is within the error range. Some of these measurements have a percent error approaching 40 billion percent.

But the evidence also shows that radioactive dating using either the same isotope or different isotopes, even using isochrons, yield very different dates on same things.

Here is the evidence.

Does Radiometric Dating Prove the Earth Is Old?

Radiometric dating and old ages in disarray

Radioisotope Dating of Rocks in the Grand Canyon

Radioisotope Dating of Grand Canyon Rocks: Another Devastating Failure for Long-Age Geology

The Faith of Radiometric Dating - Creation Moments

https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1430&context=icc_proceedings

https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1180&context=icc_proceedings

The Question of Time

These sites also show vastly varying dates but from known historical events.

The Iconic Isochron: Radioactive Dating, Part 2

Radioactive dating anomalies

"Excess Argon": The "Archilles' Heel" of Potassium-Argon and Argon-Argon "Dating" of Volcanic Rocks

More and More Wrong Dates

The rock layers cannot be dated by these techniques and using the fossils they contain, including index fossils, is just pure circular reasoning with no data at all. The rock layers are dated by the assumed age of the rock layers and the assumed age of the fossils they contain. And the fossils are dated by the assumed age of the rocks that contain them.
Literally all your sources link to religious propaganda sites.

Try to find a single scientific source.
 

TagliatelliMonster

Veteran Member
the answer to that question is a simple one and you should already know it. In as many world views as i can think of, individuals (in this case the scientists) only consider evidence valid when it supports the hypothesis...all else is discarded citing failure to prove the original theory.

You could not be more wrong.
The exact opposite is true in science.

First, to "test" a hypothesis in science, one does NOT try to support ones hypothesis. Instead, one tries to show it false.
Secondly, when a scientist publishes a hypothesis, his / her peers will jump on it like hawks to try and prove it wrong.

In science, fame and glory for scientists is reserved for those scientists who show their collegues to be WRONG.
There is NO fame and glory in science for upholding the status quo.

Nobody in science has ever received a Nobel (or any other kid of award) for providing support for a model and upholding the status quo.

I would not become famous in science for conducting the bazillionth experiment that supports evolution theory.
I would, however, become famous overnight and receive a nobel and all the grand money in the world if I would manage to disprove evolution theory.
I'ld have universities, streets, statues, etc named after me.
My name would resonate through the ages just like the names Darwin, Newton, Einstein, Farraday, Feinman, etc.


This idea that scientists conspire together and actively work together to uphold the status quo is probably one of the most giant misconceptions that the anti-science / creationist crowd hold.

So much so that it bears repeating: fame and glory in science is reserved for those scientists who show their collegues to be WRONG


If there was only the SLIGHTEST possibility or hint that "all" dating mechanisms were incorrect, PLENTY of scientists would be working DAY AND NIGHT to show them wrong. It would literally be a RACE among them to be the first to manage to disprove them.
 
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