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Author Topic:   The Geological Timescale is Fiction whose only reality is stacks of rock
Pollux
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Message 95 of 1257 (788023)
07-24-2016 8:05 PM


Reality not just stacks of rocks
Let's look at some numerical support for the geological time scale.
In the oceans, particularly in the Pacific, there are chains of sea mounts and islands. The radiometric dates for these chains increase virtually linearly as you go from one end to the other.
The best known one is the Hawaiian -Emperor sea mount chain extending northwest from Hawaii. At least 40 have been dated ranging up to 81 million years, with of course at the Hawaiian end you have the current volcanoes, and a new one under sea S-E of Hawaii.
The volume of the volcanic products in the chain is 750,000 cubic km.The R-M dates are what you would expect for the current rate of movement of the Pacific plate over the hawaiian hot spot.
These chains present at least two problems for YEC.
1. Why do these dates look exactly as you would expect given current nuclear physics and the observed rate of plate movement?
2. How could the chain be formed around the time of the Flood with the extreme rate of plate movement and of volcanism required? The H-E chain alone represents at least 30,000 Krakatoas.

  
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Message 143 of 1257 (788083)
07-25-2016 7:35 PM


Elephant in the room
The OP states that the Geological Timescale is a fiction, but the discussion seems to be bogged down in whether dinosaurs can live on rocks or not. Faith "knows" that the Earth is young so everything has to fit in with that. But the elephant in the room is the RM dating applied to the geological periods. Along with that, as RAZD so admirably showed in his thread, is the CORRELATIONS between different dating methods.
This is one of the unsolved questions admitted by GRI.
So Faith, forget about dinosaurs living on rocks and address the dating, because regardless of how the strata were formed, the dates remain. You could start by explaining the dates assigned to seamount chains, which provide strong support for the accuracy of RMD, or why the strata that were believed to be the oldest in the 19th century have the oldest RM dates.

  
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Message 1205 of 1257 (791749)
09-20-2016 7:18 PM
Reply to: Message 1204 by Taq
09-20-2016 2:42 PM


RMD accuracy
The Hawaiian-Emperor seamounts and other seamount chains show an increase in dates as you go from one end to the other, consistent with what would be expected from the rate of tectonic movement over a hot spot. This would seem to be strong evidence of RMD accuracy.
Further, ash from the eruption of Toba is dated around 74,000 years ago, and it is found at the correct area in ice cores.
In a core from the bed of Lake Malawi, it is found at 28 metres, about 50% further than where C14 runs out at 50,000 years.
Then there are tree rings and Lake Suigetsu to support C14 dating.
So far I have not seen any Creation "Science" attempt to explain these consistencies.

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Message 1206 of 1257 (791750)
09-20-2016 7:25 PM
Reply to: Message 1203 by NoNukes
09-20-2016 2:04 PM


Accelerated nuclear decay
In addition to the heat and lethal radiation problem, AND has to say why it affected the moon, because the moon rocks all date old, and the Sun, because spectroscopic studies show it does not have short lived radio-isotopes, and ditto for most stars.
After they explain that, YEC can then tell us why the Moon, Mercury, Mars etc are covered in craters.

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