It was only a few hundred years ago that many people believed that the Earth was flat. We have been told that as we look backwards into this history that the Church played a big role in holding people back from revealing the truth. This belief very much led to the war between religion and science. My understanding of science is that its aim is to explain the world around us. Seems pretty simple right? But science has also given us inventions, the industrial age, the nuclear age and so many many things since the time of the flat earth. But what I am starting to see happen around the world is a role reversal of the belief in science.
No its not a case where people are going back to believe in a flat earth, it is the case of understanding how modern day science works. Okay as an example, lets say that I am a scientist and I come up with an idea that mice can learn how to speak. Ok and some crackpot decides to fund my experiments and I carry out experiments and tests and come out with a theory concerning talking mice, either prooving it or disproving it. In general that doesn't make a theory prooved, results of experiments have to be able to be reproduced by others. And so someone else comes along with a slgihtly different idea and builds upon my experiments and refines the theory and so on, and this is the way that scientific knowledge has grown to what it is today.
So where is the problem in all of that? What is so wrong with that system? Well I will tell you whats wrong with it, some of these theories that have been accepted as fact in todays society have not been proved. The biggest one that I believe is a failed system is fossilization, its not as if someone tested to see how long a fossil takes to form, we simply don't live that long. Simple facts are that you cannot carbon date anything older than 50,000 years neither can you carbon date sea creatures as they did not breathe air but made oxygen through other sources. So how do they date other stuff you may ask. Well I will tell you, they can test using other isotopes such as uranium and the such, or they can use other methods such as rock layers. They furthermore admit mistakes made in carbon dating in the 60s and 70s as they now understand that radiation from the sun has changed over the last 10,000 years which effects the results.
In fact that was not the only issue that they came across, scientists actually admit that geological samples from the Earth are unable to give a date simply due to the fact that the Earth has undergone differentiation into the core, mantle. In simple words as the samples will always have the chance of being contaminated, this is because once a sample has been heated or irradiated it will give incorrect results. So where does the date of the Earth of 4.5 billion years come from? That is even more outstanding to answer than you would believe, the date comes from the Canyon Diablo Meteorite, yes they dated the meteorite and gave us the date of the Earth. Brilliant. Fantastic. Who said the meteorite didn't crash to earth 10,000 years ago?
Ok so lets go back to the alternative dating method of rock layers or stratigraphy, which the basic idea that layers of rock form on top of each other and the one at the bottom is the oldest. Makes sense. Yet how do you know how old the bottom layer is? There are various methods, each with its own problems, having already touched upon the limits of carbon dating I will mention a couple of others.
The First is called 'faunal dating' which refers to identifying the type of animal bones or fossils that they find in the rock and they simply look up when those animals existed. Makes sense, as rock forms it traps animals insects bones and other stuff. But the problem is, how do they know how old the fossils are? If you look up one of the main methods for dating fossils you will come across the idea that they date the fossils by the type of rock they find it in and what layer it is in. You see the problem with that one? Yes I know its crazy but its true.
The next is radiocarbon dating the rock to find out its age. Yet if you close your eyes and image lava pouring out from a volcano forming a new layer of rock, you will have to admit that the older layer has been just submitted to severe heat, which as mentioned is one of the things which can effect the accuracy of isotope dating.
Now I bet after considering all this that you may be scratching your head and wondering a bit more about all this stuff. I, just a simple man have just shown how scientists do not know the age of the Earth, they have theories about it, but it is in no way proven. If you want to believe in their nonsense then go ahead, I won't stop you from believing in a flat planet either. But if you doubt anything that I have said, then I challenge you to go and research it for yourself, because you will find the exact same thing that I have.
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