How does one do isotope dating on a rock?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Heese" <shotimes@jonheese.com>
To: "bd nesbit" <bdnesbit@sc.rr.com>; "shotimes" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Global Warming
> Heh. Well at least you have good solid facts to back up your theory.
>
> I'm curious: What makes you doubt isotopic dating?
>
> Regards,
> Jon Heese
>
> bd nesbit wrote:
>> How do you know that this planet has been around for millions of years?
>> I do not believe that it has been here that long. I happen to believe in
>> a "young earth" theory. Please don't go into the carbon dating or argon
>> gas dating and that 'crap'. It just ain't so.
>> Thanks,
>> David
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Strobel" <theamcguy@yahoo.com>
>> To: "Times List SHO" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 3:10 PM
>> Subject: [Shotimes] Global Warming
>>
>>
>>> The issue isn't whether the planet is changing or not, the issue should
>>> be what to do about it. First off fossil evidence tells me that at one
>>> time, in Canada, where there is now ice and snow, there use used to be
>>> lush vegetation and the area was inhabited by large cold blooded
>>> animals. Second geological evidence, tells me Pittsburgh PA was once
>>> covered by a glacier hundreds of meters thick. Which earth is the one
>>> we should be preserving? The planet changes, it has done so for
>>> millions of years without mans interference what makes anyone think that
>>> a few hundred years of mans interference is going to accelerate or slow
>>> down what has occurred naturally in the past. Greenies look out and say
>>> the temp is rising, we must be at fault, we must react, when ample
>>> evidence shows that at one time Canada was a tropical forest. Could the
>>> planet just be trying to go back to that point and we just happen to be
>>> living while it is doing it? Outlawing planet change will not work, the
>>> earth can't read. Instead of wasting time trying to stop the inevitable
>>> and figuring out who or who isn't the blame, time and resources would be
>>> better spent trying to figure the impact of the change and what benefits
>>> and consequences we need to plan for in the future. The earth will
>>> change, man can not stop it. Better to adapt than die. The earth has
>>> experienced both ice ages and periods of great warmth. Trying to
>>> preserve a 20-40 year climate period (1930-1970) in a planet that has
>>> seen vast extremes in its millions of years of existence is ludicrous.
>>>
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