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[–] StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours 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.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 14 hours ago

The craziest thing is new archeological discoveries keep pushing modern humans further and further back into pre-history. Almost makes me wonder if we'll come full circle and go "yeah humans did in fact coexist with dinosaurs, and here's proof at least one rode one" /hj

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 points 21 hours ago

You have to be extremely willfully ignorant to think the earth is only 4,000 years old.

The Bible itself makes it obvious that the 4,000 year old thing is a lie.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Radioactive decay is not the only way to make lead, and lead is produced in much greater abundance than uranium.

The part that's missing in the post is in looking specifically at uranium deposits and making assumptions about the initial composition of the deposits, since the crystalline structure excludes lead when the crystals form. So if you detect lead contained within zircon, it is assumed to be the product of radioactive decay.

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 7 points 1 day 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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[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Yeah this doesn’t do squat to prove or disprove anything to these nutters.

I’ve done the same with a variety of other things and you will get told the same thing:

God put it here.

Thing is you cannot argue with the above statement because it falls into that sort of argument you used to have when you were a child when the other kid would say ‘Nyah! Last word!!’ or ‘I can’t hear you!!’

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Oh yeah, well were you there 4.5 billion years ago to see this so-called uranium 238?!?

Check mate, science!

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Dude is gonna come back at him with the first mention of lead in the bible and say, no this is where God created lead, lol.

[–] mostdubious@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

destroy all religion for the sake of humanity

nO ThAT’s jUSt gOD tEStiNg yOuR FAiTh

🤦‍♂️

[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

eat lead? this guy probably has already done that one

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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

If uranium-238 can be Fused in a star why couldn’t lead be Fused directly and in tern all the elements in between.

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[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

is this even a real conversation? its just circles and rectangles

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