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.”
Eat lead
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tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Is decay the only way to get lead? I mean if uranium gets synthesized can’t lead get made as well?
Fermion@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Yes, 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.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Thanks! I assumed it was rhetorical question but this waaaaay outside my area of expertise.
gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 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.
/jk
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I’m not siding with the 4000 year old earth argument, but that is a weak counterargument.
Lead was created by dying stars that long predate the Earth.
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
WERE YOU THERE TO SEE IT??? - The next moronic rebuttal
Gloomy@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
This is so fucking cringe that it hurts my brain every time they say it.
jenny_ball@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
but who made the uranium?
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
In the begining, was uranium, and the uranium was not stable?
mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
There’s bread from 14,000 years ago
tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Look I don’t like them either, but you can’t refer to crusty bishops that way
Erasmus@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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!!’
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
nO ThAT’s jUSt gOD tEStiNg yOuR FAiTh
🤦♂️
heavyboots@lemmy.ml 4 weeks 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.
Snapz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Whatever! Pssshhh!”
mostdubious@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
destroy all religion for the sake of humanity
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If uranium-238 can be Fused in a star why couldn’t lead be Fused directly and in tern all the elements in between.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It does take a pretty long time to get a supernova if you’re starting from scratch.
skozzii@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
ALLEGEDLY .
friendly_ghost@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I think you meant to say a-lead-gedly
Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ALLEADGEDLY
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
This would mean that there was more uranium around millions and billions of years in the past so why isn’t there any evidence of prehistoric nukes in the fossil record
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Wow, today I learned. Thanks for sharing.
humblebun@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Scientism is yet another religion
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Welcome to /c/science_memes@mander.xyz with memes about…you might never have guessed…Science!
humblebun@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Scientism is not equal to science. Scientism is a way of thinking that’s similar to a religion with saint texts written in physics and biology. It denies religion, while preserving its very structure. The meme is a good example of it.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah, well were you there 4.5 billion years ago to see this so-called uranium 238?!?
Check mate, science!
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
eat lead? this guy probably has already done that one
Routhinator@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Probably not willingly. Republican States are often horrible at updating infrastructure, and due to the lack of a well educated population, they don’t suffer much repercussion for that. Very high chance they grew up with or still have lead pipes.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 4 weeks ago
This is false, the Flying Spaghetti Monster in his infinite noodly wisdom and power created the world yesterday and made the Earth appear billions of years old and the universe appear even older.
booty@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
don’t eat lead it is bad for you
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
To a theist, all things are the creation of god. There’s no argument that can’t be settled as “god made it that way”. The real place you gotta hit em is in the arrogance of believing that the almighty created the bible, not humanity. And if they say that a sentient entity willed it thusly, then we return to the problem of evil: if humans are capable of evil, and this is god’s will, then the benevolent god in the bible is not accurately depicted. I wonder what else the bible got wrong? Maybe their god willed the creation of a bible that got stuff wrong on purpose?
baggins@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
You could just ask the mice.
TriflingToad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
is this even a real conversation? its just circles and rectangles
10_0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But I take everything literally, other than when its inconvenient
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Young earth creationists make up new element called “creationite” from which all elements came from, thereby filling in the radioactive decay plot hole in their narrative.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The correct answer would have been: “Why should I? You’re an idiot.”