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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

"Whatever! Pssshhh!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lead 204 is entirely primordial and the other isotopes found on earth would be found at roughly the same concentration were all of the lead on earth primordial. It's the excess ratios of the other isotopes of lead that can be attributed to radioactive decay. That is a substantial proportion of the lead on earth, but to say the "existence of lead" is proof of the age of the earth is entirely incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_lead

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day 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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I think you meant to say a-lead-gedly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

ALLEADGEDLY

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day 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."

[–] [email protected] 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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

In the begining, was uranium, and the uranium was not stable?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day 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!!’

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

nO ThAT’s jUSt gOD tEStiNg yOuR FAiTh

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