JCanon, I seem to be providing you the same answers over and over again to the same erroneous statements.
Greenland and much of the polar regions were tropical at one time because they WERE in the tropics. Around 250 million years ago during the Mesozoic all the continents were part of large land mass called Pangea. You can see evidence for this by taking any world map and noting how South America dovetails perfectly with Africa. There are rock formations in Newfoundland that match up perfectly with ones in Scotland, showing that the two continents were once joined. The formation and breakup of supercontinents is a cyclical phenomenon in the earth's history and scientists have evidence of at least one previous supercontinent called Gondwana.
As for the lava flows in Hawaii, I told you before that the initial test used argon-argon dating that didn't take into account olivine inclusions. Potassium-argon dating showed the proper age.
You make blanket statements about scientists yet you do improper research. You really should because there are Christians out there who support science and are able to reconcile their faith at the same time. Young earth creationism and flood geology are not necessary for your belief system and they have been completely debunked, I don't know why you fight so hard for them.
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NOAH's FLOOD vs Science ??
by Rabbit inok, well this formatting looks weird...it should taste the same tho'.
web address:.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/.
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Slammin heavy metal (aka screwin up the FJ) with the kids
by wanderlustguy inmy girls came in sunday, we hit the trails on the sandia mountains right away.
i no more than got into 4 low and slammed into a boulder that was over the crest of the first hill.
lesson number 1...if you can't see completely over it...get out and look.
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I heard that a number of FJ owners were experiencing cracks in front frame after taking them offroad, hope you don't run into that.
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Jehovah's Witness Tragedy: 24 dead; 13 in critical condition
by Kenneson inin nigeria, a bus carrying mostly jehovah's witness women, collided with a large truck on a return trip from a wedding ceremony.
24 died; doctors at a hospital are trying to save 13 others.
see "nigeria: road accident claims 24 in abia.".
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That's sad. One of my friends is my last cong. is Nigerian and he had a big wedding like that too.
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Those Jews were some fast travellers!!!
by oompa ini'm sure the no way no flood crowd will appreciate this too.
so many things just don't add up.
and when is the last time fds wt did a major study to check on accuracy of carbon dating anyway???...............................oompa.
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Woah there white dove, you're mixing up two vastly different time scales. The plates have been drifting ever since the earth formed a crust. Scientists talk of "geological time" because it takes millions and millions of years for these processes to take place.
Scientists theorize that the formation and breakup of supercontinents is a cyclical event that has happened many times throughout the earth's 4.6 billion-year history. The last supercontinent, Pangea, began drifting apart approximately 250 million years ago during the Mesozoic era, which is long before modern humans.
No form of hominid remains have ever been found in the Americas aside from modern humans. The jury is still out as to when or how the first humans arrived in North America but it's generally agreed that they arrived at the end of the last ice age either by boat (which is hinted at by the Cape Verde site) or along the ice-free coasts which are now submerged because of the subsequent rise in sea levels. There is also the Bering Straight land bridge theory, that suggests ice-age hunters followed their prey through a corridor in the continental ice from Asia into America.
One interesting paleo-archaeological discovery is that primates had evolved by the time South America separated from Africa and these two isolated groups have been evolving separately from each other ever since. That is why all "new world" primates have a unique dentition pattern that is found in no other "old world" primate. -
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Those Jews were some fast travellers!!!
by oompa ini'm sure the no way no flood crowd will appreciate this too.
so many things just don't add up.
and when is the last time fds wt did a major study to check on accuracy of carbon dating anyway???...............................oompa.
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If someone has access to the watchtower CD-ROM, could you look up the last reference dealing with carbon dating and tell us when it was?
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Anyone a listener of Alex Jones? ..also Loose Change Final Cut is out!
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LMAO, totally not the response I was expecting. Did you even visit the site?
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Anyone a listener of Alex Jones? ..also Loose Change Final Cut is out!
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Loose Change is so passé, Unfastened Coins is where it's at!
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You will see Old age
by KW13 ini told mum yesterday that i'd carry on my so called 'anti jw' speak when she is an old lady of 80 years old.
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her words "i dont think this system will last that long".. i have a long time to wait but i shall be proven right!.
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The Witnesses are like a dog chasing its tail. It's ALWAYS gonna be just around the corner, you just have to hang on a little bit more and focus on how good its gonna feel when you arrive.
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Those Jews were some fast travellers!!!
by oompa ini'm sure the no way no flood crowd will appreciate this too.
so many things just don't add up.
and when is the last time fds wt did a major study to check on accuracy of carbon dating anyway???...............................oompa.
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Good find, and in regards to your question you might notice that the Watchtower has scrupulously avoided making any declarations like they used to about carbon dating.
The reason is that carbon dating isn't the sole tool that scientists use to calculate age. There's an alphabet soup of different radiometric isotope dating methods available plus fission-track dating, tree-ring chronology, mud varve layers, ice cores and speleothem (stalagmite, stalactite) cores.
When several of these methods all independently indicate a point in time, it's fair to say that it is accurate. Carbon dating just happens to be one of the more commonly used because it has been verified against tree-ring chronology up to 9,000 years old and found to be accurate up to its farthest range of 40,000 radiocarbon years. Older organic material than that does not have sufficient C14 so different methods are used.
If you want even more bible-challenging Meso-American archaeological discovery look up Cape Verde, Chile. That site is estimated to be around 15,000 years old and has preserved tent-houses covered in mammoth hide and a perfectly preserved footprint of a human child.
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You will see Old age
by KW13 ini told mum yesterday that i'd carry on my so called 'anti jw' speak when she is an old lady of 80 years old.
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her words "i dont think this system will last that long".. i have a long time to wait but i shall be proven right!.
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Yep. I remember starting kindergarten and asking my mom what high school was like and she said "You probably won't have to worry about that, the new system will be here by then."
Now I've been to University and my dad is two years away from retirement.