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[–] Pixlbabble@lemm.ee 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Where is the proof about these magic numbers? Checkmate atheist. /s

[–] unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All math is a lib lie! Just look at those blasphemous arabic numerals!

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

round numbers are always made up. change my mind

[–] Cutecity@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This proof is partial though. This assumes there is only 1 way of obtaining lead. What if lead appeared from fusion in stars younger than that.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

But the half life of polonium 210 is just 138 days. other is a few days. radium 226 is 1602 years. Why couldn't the earth have started with a lot of radium 226? Checkmate round earthers.

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

Could have started with lead directly. Why go the extra mile.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"God made the world with lead in it"

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[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 weeks ago

The correct answer would have been: "Why should I? You're an idiot."

[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

We obviously live in a matrix/simulated world, and it can't be older than 50 years, because before that, computers didn't exist. Checkmate christians.

/jk

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago

I had a dude come up to me at the reference desk and tell me that the earth can’t be billions (he said trillions, lol) of years old because erosion from the Mississippi River would make it wider and deeper than it is. I pulled up some info including the idea that the Mississippi was something that came about more recently because of plate shifting, etc and he just said, "Nah."

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The tragedy is that humans aren't convinced to change their minds by facts like this. They're convinced by good stories from their friends and family.

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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Is decay the only way to get lead? I mean if uranium gets synthesized can't lead get made as well?

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[–] StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

There's evidence of human civilization and agriculture going back at least 10,000 years. You have to be extremely willfully ignorant to think the earth is only 4,000 years old. Hell the pyramid of Giza is older than that.

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

WERE YOU THERE TO SEE IT???? - The next moronic rebuttal

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