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Post by Bubbles on Aug 6, 2020 13:43:07 GMT -5
As simply as possible. How can you say something is 250 million years old vs 1 if we have no basis for time measurement then and weren't around then? Talira Greycrest |
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Post by Absolutely on Aug 6, 2020 14:14:33 GMT -5
Seriously. I want answers too.
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Post by Uncle Jesse on Aug 6, 2020 16:00:36 GMT -5
It's one of the things I've never understood.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Aug 6, 2020 17:49:28 GMT -5
Don't really know much about this, but I believe that, rather than dating the fossils themselves, palaeontologists actually date the rocks that the fossils are found in.
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Post by Cheap Trixie on Aug 6, 2020 18:02:34 GMT -5
Don't really know much about this, but I believe that, rather than dating the fossils themselves, palaeontologists actually date the rocks that the fossils are found in. Do you know how that's done? How do they date the rocks? |
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Aug 6, 2020 18:59:36 GMT -5
They can use radioactive materials that occur in rocks and fossils. It's called radiometric dating.
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Post by Queen of Hearts on Aug 6, 2020 19:43:40 GMT -5
They can use radioactive materials that occur in rocks and fossils. It's called radiometric dating. Can you pretend like I'm 5 and make it really simple? Not trying to be annoying. I guess it's something I forgot I learned a LONG time ago. |
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Post by Robles on Aug 6, 2020 20:51:56 GMT -5
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Post by Pedro on Aug 6, 2020 21:23:36 GMT -5
I liked the video. I get it a little mas.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Aug 6, 2020 23:25:47 GMT -5
Palaeontologists can also compare newly-discovered fossils with similar ones that have already been dated.
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Post by Yankeefan1955 on Aug 7, 2020 5:09:10 GMT -5
Makes you wonder if Creation and Evolution can coexist.
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Post by Cybrus on Aug 7, 2020 5:10:03 GMT -5
Makes you wonder if Creation and Evolution can coexist. They can and they do. |
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Post by lately on Aug 26, 2020 15:01:38 GMT -5
That video simplified it so much that it made sense.
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Post by ThtGyWhoWearsEyelinr on Aug 26, 2020 15:02:10 GMT -5
Loved the video. Looks like I'm not the only one looking through the beginning of botm.
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