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My question is this: Even though radiometric dating has the Earth listed as approximately 4.5 billion years old, this method of testing is used to test the age of the materials that the Earth is comprised of. Dirt, rocks and strata. Correct?

If God created the Earth, why wouldn't He use raw materials at His disposal? The materials themselves do not determine the age of our Earth. It cannot pinpoint that moment in time when these materials came together, only the age of the materials that are present.

Am I off-base here?

Agape4Robin, Theology Online 55 Comments [8/28/2009 3:18:12 PM]
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#1013455
SurfinSeaOtter

Drowning man grabbing at straws...

8/28/2009 3:20:43 PM

#1013467
EvoPagan

Where did your god get the raw materials? Perhaps one of my gods left them behind...hmmmm....

8/28/2009 3:25:48 PM

#1013475
Blackvoice

Are you friends with the alien dinosaur recicling guy?

8/28/2009 3:27:53 PM

#1013478
Canadiest

Just looking for a way to stop the argument and nullify the facts? Religions been proven wrong a lot, most sects are due to a split of confidence or excessive hypocracy. Some of you are looking for a way for both to work together,that's amiable but still wrong.

Gods do not exist

8/28/2009 3:28:59 PM

#1013500
Shann

@ EvoPagan:

You have won one interwebz. Please continue to use it wisely.


8/28/2009 3:34:01 PM

#1013504
szena

And those raw materials came from...

8/28/2009 3:34:36 PM

#1013520
EonBlueTriad

Am I off-base here?

I think you already know the answer.

8/28/2009 3:44:30 PM

#1013533


I'm guessing WAY

8/28/2009 3:52:43 PM

#1013545
Alcari

the Earth is comprised of. Dirt, rocks and strata. Correct?

If you can find my a bucket of stratum, I'll give you 100 bucks

8/28/2009 3:58:31 PM

#1013575
WMDKitty

*snrk*

I read the username as "agape-for-robin" -- who is Robin, and which orifice is agape for him?

8/28/2009 4:16:39 PM

#1013580
Ouabache

The materials themselves do not determine the age of our Earth. It cannot pinpoint that moment in time when these materials came together

Actually, it can and does. The radioactive clock starts whenever the crystals are formed by cooling.

8/28/2009 4:18:45 PM

#1013588
Osiris

So what you're saying is that God made the materials 4 billion years before he made Earth.

8/28/2009 4:26:01 PM

#1013592
Zoo

Well, the bible does say something about the earth being void and without form, but most of your creationist friends take this to mean he made it out of nothing.

Anyway, why did God wait most of 4.5 billion years (at the least) to make the earth, and where did this stuff you think he used come from in the first place? And, dare I ask, where did God say that's what he did?

8/28/2009 4:29:09 PM

#1013604
Musicalbookworm

Don't hurt yourself making that stretch

8/28/2009 4:39:51 PM

#1013607
Reverend Jeremiah

Yes, you are off-base.

8/28/2009 4:40:42 PM

#1013612
Headache

Am I off-base here?

Yes, you are in fantasy land.

8/28/2009 4:44:22 PM

#1013615
BobsOldSocks

Your argument presupposes that your god created the Earth - you have no evidence for that assertion whatsoever. I don't believe in your, or anyone else's, god but if I had too choose one it wouldn't be your cosmic cowboy builder.

8/28/2009 4:46:16 PM

#1013620
evilred

Yes. Off-base & totally retarded.

8/28/2009 4:48:35 PM

#1013713
CrazyHappyNinja

It's obvious. The Earth was created 6000 years ago, but it took god the other 4.5 billion years practicing til he got it right.

Also dinosaurs where um... angels... until the er... HEY LOOK A DISTRACTION!

8/28/2009 6:33:00 PM

#1013721
K

I'll you some credit, compared to the usual dreck we read on this sight that's a fairly intelligent theory. Problem, Dinasaors. But good attempt.

8/28/2009 6:47:16 PM

#1013737
Dr. Razark

"Am I off-base here?"

Speaking on my vast authority as someone who took a couple geology courses: Yes, yes you are.

Get a simple geology book. Google radiometric dating. Read up on stuff before you spout off about it.

8/28/2009 7:07:33 PM

#1013809
MPW

"If God created the Earth, why wouldn't He use raw materials at His disposal?"

Why would he? Especially if he's omnipotent?

On the other hand, why would or wouldn't he do anything? He seems almost infinitely malleable, fitting whatever a particular believer wants to believe. In other words, he's useless as a hypothesis.

Ouabache at #1013580 gives the best succinct answer, though.


8/28/2009 8:00:44 PM

#1013822
T

@ Dr. Razark

I don't think the OP will google "radiometric dating" - probably believes it's an earlier version of eHarmony.

8/28/2009 8:09:42 PM

#1013832
Philbert McAdamia

why wouldn't He use raw materials at His disposal?

Key word in your fantasy: Creator

8/28/2009 8:19:22 PM

#1013867
Caustic Gnostic

Dirt, rock and Strats?! Wow, man. Heavy. Way cool.

No, the term is free-base.

8/28/2009 8:44:30 PM
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