[_ Old Earth _] Earth age

[CrimsonTide]

*Chuckle.* And carbon dating has put living clams at 5,000 years old. Says wonders for its accuracy, doesn't it? :

Mollusks are an bit of an anomally. Unlike most animals, who get ther carbon from the atmosphere, indirectly, mollusks get their carbon from disolved limestone. This is, naturally, much older, and the carbon14 has already decayed significantly by the time the mollusk consumes it. This skews the ratio of carbon 12 to carbon 14, andmakes the data more difficult to interpret when using carbon dating.

 

[Rogue 9]

BAD SDNET MEMBER!

SD.net member, yes. But who said I was on your side? :wink: I know that decay rates are fixed, I did ace physics. :P

 

[CrimsonTide]

Oh, and if the earth/universe was young... why is it that we can see light from galaxies that are millions of light years away?

 

[victorhadin]

BAD SDNET MEMBER!

SD.net member, yes. But who said I was on your side? :wink: I know that decay rates are fixed, I did ace physics. :P

Bloody hell. Now you lot are in on this place too? Did someone give you a key or something?

 

[Free]

CrimsonTide,

Depends if you are assuming the speed of light to be constant.

 

[victorhadin]

CrimsonTide,

Depends if you are assuming the speed of light to be constant.

A fair assumption. Any radical changes messes up the permitivity of freespace, electromagnetism etc, which goes on to effect everything else.

 

[CrimsonTide]

By its very nature the speed of light is a constant. There is no evidence for c-decay. If, in order to make make the earth 6000 years old, you ust take a well established scientific principle, then rape it wth a chainsaw, there is something wrong with your point of view :P

 

[Free]

I am not saying the earth is 6000 years old, but I am not saying it is 4 billion years old either. Being somewhat scientific, but not a scientist, I am ill equiped to debate the issues seriously. However, I have come across sites that have stated that c has been sped up significantly in experiments.

 

[CrimsonTide]

I am not saying the earth is 6000 years old, but I am not saying it is 4 billion years old either. Being somewhat scientific, but not a scientist, I am ill equiped to debate the issues seriously. However, I have come across sites that have stated that c has been sped up significantly in experiments.

I have seen the same ones, but it is only over VERY short distances, and the variation is small.

 

[SyntaxVorlon]

CrimsonTide,

Depends if you are assuming the speed of light to be constant.

If it wasn't the universe would be a MUCH different place. This is tantamount to claiming that the laws of relativity and gravity are unreliable. I would really like to hear your proof for this. It's better to assume the constants that stay constant, and not assume things you cannot substatiate. Please back up your claim.