They don’t know that Satan placed pre-decayed uranium in the earth to fool the righteous.
On the seventh day, god created uranium
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Tetragrade@leminal.space 2 days ago
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 days ago
God requires faith!
And regular tithing!
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I wonder how many people donate with the understand that their money goes directly towards reinforcing the dogmatic power dynamics?
How many people are like “man this religion shit is stupid, but I gotta instill the fear of hell into my wife and kids so they do as I say”
Erna_muse@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
I just want to bring people back from the dead.
w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Uranium was used by dinosaurs to cast spells during the dark ages.
Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
nice try with your “”“logic”“” and “”“facts”“” but you fail to consider the power of my personal interpretation of a book (and by personal I mean exactly the one some sketchy pastor said), check mate WITCH
SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Who reads books nowadays? Don’t you have a YouTube video or something that can tell me what my opinion is without leaving the house?
Unstoppable_Flop@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Bus needs to be repainted as a church bus.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I actually have a question on a similar topic
How does carbon dating work? Sure, things made in the past have some carbon-14 broken down, but don’t the raw materials used in making today’s products do just the same?
What makes carbon-14 break down differently in things made before and raw materials we use today?
azureskypirate@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
As Thalfon said, the Carbon 14 decays at a predictable rate.
So where does the starting quantity come from?
Radiation from space (probably cosmic rays) interacting with the atmosphere causes some of the atoms to become a different isotope. Plants integrate C14 into their sugars and cellulose, and when they are dead and buried by sediment, no more C14 is integrated. While buried, the plant matter is sheilded from further radiation, the C14 decays at a predictable rate, and we measure that. Meanwhile, underground carbon like coal and oil is also sheilded from radiation and doesn’t get converted to C14; instead any C14 decays into C12. Thus the problem with Carbon dating after the industrial revolution.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 days ago
So, the reason the ratio changes in fossils is that they get underground and are shielded from radiation? But then we can only tell how long has it been sitting underground?
Thalfon@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s not that it breaks down differently (in fact, we rely on it being consistent), it’s how much it has broken down. Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5700 +/- 30 years (per Wikipedia), so if you see 1/2 the expected amount of carbon-14 then something would be around 5700 years old, with 1/4 the expected amount you’d predict 11400 years old, etc.
This relies on the amount of carbon-14 originally being predictable. This worked well in the past for living things (which from what I understand tended to maintain a consistent ratio of C-14 to C-12) or objects made from their organic material, but stopped being true around the industrial revolution when we started pumping the atmosphere full of carbon.
We use other isotopes, or other techniques in general, for very recent objects, or for things more than 50-60 thousand years old.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 days ago
So, living objects can regulate the amount of carbon-14 specifically, not just carbon in general? And then when they die, this regulation stops and it breaks down?
Because otherwise it shouldn’t matter whether they died and carbon-14 broke down for a thousand years or carbon-14 broke down for a thousand years and then the recent creature consumed it.
Here I assume that whatever happens with carbon-14 in fossils also happens with any carbon around us. It’s not that it breaks down in fossils specifically, but not in everything else. So the order shouldn’t matter, unless the ratio is different in a living organism.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
If they could read, they would be very upset.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You fools. You absolute fucking simpletons. The devil placed those decay products there to lead us astray. Pray in Jesus’ name AMEN and share this with the loony science false believers!!;
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 days ago
Personally I believe that Adam and Even left the garden of Eden 6,000 years ago…
After hanging around eating fruit in the buff for 13.7 billion years, during which time the rest of humanity evolved from apes.
OpenStars@piefed.social 2 days ago
Uh huh, how else do you think apes got so much human DNA in them, <wink>.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 days ago
the nth day
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Dude, it’s 5 billion years. Your numbers are from the bible, probably?
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Just modify the comment with something but shit crazy, and mod will delete it for you
khannie@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What client are you using?
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
Thunder for Android
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
What about water? Aren’t those molecules even older than Uranium? I think the heavier elements came into being mich later, didn’t they? Also this meme would be easier to interpret if the “6000 years” statement was in “quotes”.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
There’s trees older than that.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
People who believe in young earth creationism have completely rejected science already. They won’t be convinced by any scientific argument.
87Six@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I never really understood why people argue with them.
Like, take this instance as an example. They’d just say that God intentionally created pre-aged Uranium.
To whatever your detailed scientific argument may be, their argument can always be “God did it that way”. You can win an argumenr against these people but you can never convice them that you did really just win the argument…
foo@feddit.uk 2 days ago
When asked why God would do such a thing, the answer is usually “To test your faith”.
I was brought up Christian as a child, and went to church, but this answer is a prime example of what ultimately turned me away. Such behaviour didn’t fit the image of God in my mind. My version of God was pure, loving and trustworthy, and wouldn’t scatter “tests of faith” and other such trickery around my world.
OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Last thursdayism: the universe was created last Thursday - everything is just precreated, memories and experience were planted there last Thursday. Nothing has been around for more than a week at this point.
It’s the same idea, pulled to an extreme which cannot be disproven, but also seems absurd enough for people to deny
poweruser@fedinsfw.app 1 day ago
This is the whole point of “Last Thursdayism”. You claim that the world was created, as it is, last Thursday. All of history, including your own memories, were fabricated at the moment of creation - which was just last Thursday. Then you challenge them to try to prove you wrong.
It’s a great demonstration of why we long ago established the concept of the burden of proof