The Age of the Universe

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Then there’s Uranium even if the rate is off by 80 percent that is still well over a million yrs

Uranium decays slowly by emitting an alpha particle. The half-life of uranium-238 is about 4.47 billion years and that of uranium-235 is 704 million years, making them useful in dating the age of the Earth.
 
You don’t want to do the work to plant a tree and have the patience to watch it grow.
 
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JamOn said:
Then there’s Uranium even if the rate is off by 80 percent that is still well over a million yrs

Uranium decays slowly by emitting an alpha particle. The half-life of uranium-238 is about 4.47 billion years and that of uranium-235 is 704 million years, making them useful in dating the age of the Earth.
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What about Mt St Helens and various radiometric dating showing new formed 40 yr old rock being dated from 250000 to a couple million yrs old .
 
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JohnR7 said:
We have 32 verses to work with in Genesis chapter one. Even all the books in the world could not show us all we can learn from the first chapter in the Bible. "Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written." (John 21:25) All time and all history can be summed up in 32 verses.

There is so much information packed into the first three chapters so that we have the rest of the Bible to help us to understand those first three chapters. We have creation (ch1), the generations (ch2), the serpent and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (ch3). I get stuck on the word "evil" and trying to understand what that is all about.
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I think you are as much in awe of scripture as I am! But it grieves me to hear people read things in it that it does not say.

God lives in an eternal world, His perceptions are so much more in detail and complete then ours are. When people decided that God told them the world was limited in age and science said differently people flocked to the non believing side, and if you look at it closely, scripture did not say that. Science has helped us understand.

Think of the time people said scripture said the world was flat! When we let science and scripture work together, science helps us understand the Lord.

God has to make things beyond our selves so we can understand. I think it is wonderful how he uses things we know to explain to us. Like using water to explain spiritual cleanliness, and just think of the spiritual explanation salt gives us!
 
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bojack said:
What about Mt St Helens and various radiometric dating showing new formed 40 yr old rock being dated from 250000 to a couple million yrs old .
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What about chernobyl that place is still active and will be for a long time
 
JamOn said:
What about chernobyl that place is still active and will be for a long time
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HA, I don't know, what about it .. There's different types of radiation .. Some radiation takes a long time for sure .. Like spent fuel from a nuclear reaction ..
 
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bojack said:
HA, I don't know, what about it .. There's different types of radiation .. Some radiation takes a long time for sure .. Like spent fuel from a nuclear reaction ..
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The sun is a massive nuclear reactor
 
bojack said:
Forget Wormwood , Fukushima has been leaking from 4/5 meltdowns since 2011 I think when it happened ..
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Man that full detail won’t be released, it did a lot damaged to the environment around that area, the ocean took the brunt of it.

But on the bright side the new reactors being built can be shut down fast without any radioactive spillage
 
JamOn said:
The sun is a massive nuclear reactor
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Yes, I like to get radiated at my beach house a couple months a year .. And Iv'e stood and looked into a spent fuel pool during a nuclear refueling shutdown , prettiest aqua greenish glow I've ever seen tbh ..
 
bojack said:
Yes, I like to get radiated at my beach house a couple months a year .. And Iv'e stood and looked into a spent fuel pool during a nuclear refueling shutdown , prettiest aqua greenish glow I've ever seen tbh ..
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hehe, well everybody gets radiated each day because of the sun.
 
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