Earth science curriculum tailored to fit wavering fundamentalists

DrAdequate writes:Which was a paper that said that scientists had found a dinosaur that was not permineralized. So some creationist had read this, and innocently, ignorantly, concluded that it was not mineralized.

The bones are stained a large red brown, but otherwise display little permineralisation, crushing or distortion.

Faith writes:They were looking for the evidence in particular layers,....

faith writes:... not in the entire geological column. Some people still have that wrong idea.

ThinAir Designs writes:I understand that 2 rings per year is rather easy to detect (cellular difference as I follow it), but does anyone have any idea how one could detect missing rings?

ThinAirDesigns writes:I've just accepted the opportunity to question/debate Hugh Miller live (online) with my family watching. I have stated that the only topic I'm interested in debating are the famous Carnegie Samples.

ModernReformation writes:One of the best ways of making a name for yourself in the scientific community is to challenge a widely held scientific understanding with a strongly defended alternative theory. It is thus of considerable significance that the tens of thousands of geologists worldwide are virtually in complete agreement that the question of the earth's age has been answered: roughly 4.6 billion years.The agreement is perhaps even more striking in the world of economic geology (oil and mineral exploration) where theories that lead to increased revenue always win, even if philosophically distasteful. Understanding the age of the earth and its layers plays a critical role in natural resource exploration, yet to our knowledge there is not a single oil or mining company anywhere in the world that uses a young-earth model to find or exploit new reserves. Old-earth models work. Young-earth models do not.