You are right that I have used assumptions in my post on erosion. I assumed that rain happened in the past and it pretty much is about the same as today. I also assumed that soils erode today and in the past pretty much the same. I also assumed that no supernatural events caused the conclusions I came to.
If you want you can reject those assumptions and make new ones and redo the math. I am not sure if your conclusions will be worth much.
But how do your calculations lead to the conclusion that:
Franktalk wrote:[If you] study erosion enough [ ] you will find that our dating methods are completely wrong.
I suppose there will be no answer to my question ...
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Franktalk wrote: It does not supply truth so don't look for it there.
LOL
If science doesn't provide truth, nothing does.
I'm not saying science is infallible; I'm just saying it's the best reality determining mechanism we've got... by a mile... actually, more like a light year. Yeah, that sounds about right.
God belief is for people who don't want to live life on the universe's terms.
Chap wrote: I suppose there will be no answer to my question ...
I get the feeling ol' Frank here isn't big on matching content to conclusions.
My problem is that I just don't see the point of his Mississippi calculation, but it is clear that he thinks he was making some kind of a killer argument.
Could it be that all he is saying is that a calculation can only be as good as the data you put into it - the old Garbage In Garbage Out point? His references to 'assumptions' do seem to point that way.
But he really did promise more than that, when he said:
Franktalk wrote:[If you] study erosion enough [ ] you will find that our dating methods are completely wrong.
This is the claim I'd like to see him justify. But maybe he is just a troll.
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Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
Hey! That'd be the secret ingredient that turned them white and delightsome?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.