Rand, Rubio, Jindal to speak at Pastors and Pews, an evangelical event

[erowe1]

Yep, they sure don't. Dating a Fossil (surprisingly an easier and healthier activity than dating a neocon)

It says right in that article, "Because the half-life of carbon-14 is 5,700 years, it is only reliable for dating objects up to about 60,000 years old."

I'm not sure why the word "fossil" is used in that subtitle. It might not be from the author of the article. Notice that nowhere in the text of the article does it refer to the object of Carbon-14 dating as a "fossil."

 

[Anti-Neocon]

It says right in that article, "Because the half-life of carbon-14 is 5,700 years, it is only reliable for dating objects up to about 60,000 years old."

What's your point? We're talking about a 6,000 year old Earth after all

I'm not sure why the word "fossil" is used in that subtitle. It might not be from the author of the article. Notice that nowhere in the text of the article does it refer to the object of Carbon-14 dating as a "fossil."

Want another article? http://www.biology.arizona.edu/biomath/tutorials/applications/carbon.html

 

[erowe1]

Want another article? http://www.biology.arizona.edu/biomath/tutorials/applications/carbon.html

From that article:

The half-life for 14C is approximately 5700 years, therefore the 14C isotope is only useful for dating fossils up to about 50,000 years old. Fossils older than 50,000 years may have an undetectable amount of 14C. For older fossils, an isotope with a longer half-life should be used. For example, the radioactive isotope potassium-40 decays to argon-40 with a half life of 1.3 billion years. Other isotopes commonly used for dating include uranium-238 (half-life of 4.5 billion years) and thorium-232 (half-life 14.1 billion years).

Generally, when Carbon dating is used, it's on things that we would not consider "fossils", and when we do call things "fossils" we mean things that don't have enough Carbon in them to Carbon date. I'm not sure what exactly they include among their supposedly <50k year old "fossils" that they actually do Carbon date. But they don't make up much at all of what are called fossils, which are almost always dated using other means. I guess from this article it looks like there are exceptional cases where Carbon dating can be used for fossils.

 

[RandRevolution]

The libertarian philosophy is "the government won't punish you as long as you don't hurt other people", and that doesn't say that God won't punish you. Not all Christians even believe that God will punish for actions such as sex before marriage. There is no hypocrisy here at all.

But libertarians believe the government shouldn't punish you for that because it's morally wrong to. Isn't god doing it morally wrong then too? Don't libertarians believe torture is morally wrong, isn't having people burn in hell for all eternity a sadistic form of torture? And if Christians don't believe god punishes people for actions such as sex before marriage then they aren't following their own religon.

 

[erowe1]

But libertarians believe the government shouldn't punish you for that because it's morally wrong to. Isn't god doing it morally wrong then too? Don't libertarians believe torture is morally wrong, isn't having people burn in hell for all eternity a sadistic form of torture? And if Christians don't believe god punishes people for actions such as sex before marriage then they aren't following their own religon.

It's morally wrong for me to think of myself as God and to claim the authority to do everything God has the authority to do. It's not morally wrong for God to think of himself as God, since he is.

Also, if your premise is correct, that some things are morally wrong, then that presupposes the existence of God. If there is no God, then nothing is morally wrong.

 

[compromise]

Topic just got badly derailed.

Want to debate religion? Go here:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?213-Religion

 

[FSP-Rebel]

Topic just got badly derailed.

Want to debate religion? Go here:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?213-Religion

More like this thread never had a chance, shoulda posted this on the first page.

 

[erowe1]

Topic just got badly derailed.

Want to debate religion? Go here:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forumdisplay.php?213-Religion

The way I see it, every debate on every part of this forum is inherently a religious debate.