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#814076
dpareja
"Has anyone observe computers, technology or medicine evolve by themselves without the use of intelligence?"
Is it even worth pointing out that evolution applies to living things, not things that don't reproduce?
12/17/2008 2:31:12 AM
#814077
The Outsider
Good thing we don't use Carbon-14 on most fossils. Dumbass!
12/17/2008 2:31:12 AM
#814080
The reason diamonds have c-14 is because they are susceptible to contamination from decaying uranium. Organisms that died above ground are not.
12/17/2008 2:31:43 AM
#814100
k4jun
God created my computer using clay and a belly button.
12/17/2008 2:43:04 AM
#814155
Ambrielle
drf333 has a poor grasp of... something.
12/17/2008 4:22:51 AM
#814157
Reverend Jeremiah
..yeah..has anyone ever met a Cretin who actually understood basic biology?
12/17/2008 4:24:14 AM
#814158
a mind far far away
This post is so full of fail, I'm not even going to point out the horrible torture of the English language.
12/17/2008 4:25:21 AM
#814165
pete
Radioactive decay doesn't work that way.
12/17/2008 4:28:23 AM
#814183
werewolf
Animal species. Living things. They evolve.
Computers. Made things. They do not evolve.
Look up carbon dating, you illegitimate son of a camel.
12/17/2008 4:55:06 AM
#814188
Arts_Myth
I'd have to say that, if there's any substance that shouldn't be contaminated by carbon of any sort, it's diamonds...
12/17/2008 4:59:50 AM
#814205
C_bunny
.... or it means those rare diamonds with 14C are indeed less than 50Ka old? In addition to contamination from other minerals, this is possible as well! I love how the "either..." message really doesn't give a second option.
I think I might dedicate my life to education people about the mechanics of radiometric dating!
12/17/2008 5:22:57 AM
#814212
Carbon-14 has a half-life of only 5,730 years. The upper limits on its range is about 62,000 years.
Uranium-238 decays to Lead-206 with a half-life of 4.47 billion years. Rubidium-87 decays to Strontium-87 with a half-life of about 50 billion years. For comparison, the Universe is only about 13.7 billion years old.
Thank you for proving that you haven't done thirty seconds of research. I hope you enjoy being an irrational, willfully ignorant, delusional idiot for the rest of your pitiful excuse of a life.
12/17/2008 5:30:56 AM
#814220
cdelestial-salamander
"so something that is supposed to be 1 million years old should not have any carbon 14"
wow, just wow
12/17/2008 5:38:51 AM
#814230
pete
Actually cdelestial-salamander, and anyone else who's curious, a small amount of the Carbon 14 can remain far past 50,000 years. "Half life" doesn't mean half the time it takes to all decay. Half life is the amount of time it takes for half a sample to decay. It's a measure of the probablity that a given number of decay reactions will take place.
So, every 5,730 years, half of a samples Carbon 14 decays. Then it gets cut in half every additional 5,730 years. But, there's nothing to prevent a few "stubborn" atoms from lasting for millions of years. It's just that so little remains that one can't draw accurate conclusions.
12/17/2008 6:07:35 AM
#814233
484
"What does that mean?"
The diamond is less than 50,000 years old.
Also learn the concept of exponential Decay
12/17/2008 6:09:37 AM
#814262
Sasha
Has anyone observe computers, technology or medicine evolve by themselves without the use of intelligence?
So you've proved that biological evolution does not require intelligence. Which we've claimed all along. Good job.
12/17/2008 6:41:12 AM
#814291
aaa
Sigh...
12/17/2008 7:05:42 AM
#814292
Paschal Wagner
In other words, you're not intelligent and you haven't observed anything?
12/17/2008 7:05:51 AM
#814316
Grimesy
I'm thinking of a word between the letters 'F' and 'L'.
12/17/2008 7:39:48 AM
#814339
deviantART mod
Religion kills brain cells at an alarming rate.
12/17/2008 7:59:08 AM
#814367
Detrs
Good thing there's more than one type of radiometric dating then, right?
12/17/2008 9:09:07 AM
#814425
anevilmeme
Part of the fundie Ten Commandments: Thou shall bash Carbon 14 dating but thou shalt not ever attempt to understand it.
12/17/2008 11:28:43 AM
#814522
Porky Pine
Education. Get one.
12/17/2008 1:32:03 PM
#814528
Mister Spak
"Yet we find diamonds with carbon 14. What does that mean? "
It means you've been reading creationist books. If you want to learn science you have to read science books.
12/17/2008 1:34:51 PM
#814605
colonel catastrophe
HAve none of these fundies ever heard of any of the other materials used for radiometric dating, like uranium 238?
12/17/2008 2:17:24 PM
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