Hello there,

Let me start off with some basics on science in general. Science in general uses many tools to observe the world with, these tools, or rather, the results from these tools are called observations. In life, everyone works with observations, everyone works with tools to make observations, sometimes these are our own tools like the nose, our ears, our eyes. Sometimes they are enhanced tools, spectrophotometers, microscopes, etc etc.

One thing anyone should easily understand, is that every tool has its use, but most importantly, also its misuse, you can’t smell food with your eyes, you can’t look at bacteria with your eyes, etc etc. These are of course very logical things but they can get more complicated, for instance: You can’t always smell or taste or see if something is poisonous, with some things you can, but others you can’t. This factor, of what we can and cannot do, defines the limits of our capabilities, we can’t sniff out cocaine from 50 meters away, though a dog can, our smell is limited to a specific range in smell, different from that of dogs.

When you apply these basic principles on scientific techniques, you will find that every tool, every use has its own limits, for carbon dating, there are limits in dating range (how old or young a sample can be) and in sample kinds. For the dating range, we’re dealing with dates in between 50.000 years and 150 years old. The method becomes unreliable beyond and before those ages, and there’s reasons for that just as there are reasons why you can’t sniff out cocaine from 50 meters way.

For Carbon dating, the reasoning behind these limits can be very simply put:

1. Anything after 50.000 years, has such a small amount of carbon14 that is detectable, that it will become more and more unreliable, the further you go.

2. Anything before 150 years old will have to deal with an increase in carbon14 due to the budding industrialization that has been pumping it into the atmosphere, thus making it near impossible to calculate the age.

On top of this reasoning, is the fact that carbon dating has been verified up to around 10.000 years using samples from: Tree ring data, ice cores, Lake varves and more. All these have their own dating methods and the results from these dating methods all correlate perfectly. Meaning that 10.000 years of carbon dating correlates perfectly with:

Tree ring dating,

Ice core dating,

Lake Varve dating,

These are all independent dating methods and the chance that these would all correlate so perfectly is nearly non existent.

In the light of such evidence (and there is more then just these examples), we can conclude that carbon14 dating is very accurate within the limits, and very inaccurate outside of those limits. I can also very easily say that all misuse of the dating method automatically results in the invalidity of its result.

Logical, no?

I realize that I never really gave a good idea of where I’m living right now, so how about we do that, huzzah!

I’m in Strasbourg, that much is clear of course, and Strasbourg is in France, close to the German and Swiss border.

My current residence is a large flat (one of the biggest in the city), on the tenth floor, overseeing a lot of the city and even the mountains further away.

And now, lemme spam some pictures!

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Being from europe, reading about how florida is planning to "save money" by making big axe cuts in universities, it is pretty humorous to me, because if I add up the numbers, even though it might save up money on the short term, it will definitely not help bring in more money on the long term.

One of the proposals is a severe cut in geology programs, nearly crippling them completely, can you imagine, within a year you might go to a university and you can't pick geology anymore, it'll be gone, and all the geological advancements in Florida will require outside support.. How is that saving up? How is that a good thing ?

Many creationist sources often speak of evolution being the underlying principle behind the holocaust, behind many rascistial problems in the past and today.

Or in reality, they believe evolution is used as an excuse for such practices.. The holocaust was possible because “evolution” was used as an excuse to validate the hatred and actions in the second world war.

Link to AIG about holocaust and evolution

Now if we continue with AIG (Answers in Genesis), we’ll find a very specific gem of information, namely that AIG accepts natural selection and evolution “within kinds”.. Now for real biologists the word “kinds” has no meaning and no creationist has ever given a specific definition of the word. But thats not a problem at all.

We know that humans are one kind in the creationism eyes, and this is the thing that poses a problem, why?

Because if they accept the fact that humans involved “within kind” to be different racially, then they are supporting the underlying idea that they say fuelled the holocaust.

If evolution is rascist, then creationism is just as rascist.

This is a bit of a test, I’m using Live Writer to make a livejournal post with an attached picture, I hope this works out :)

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It seems to be working fine and I like how the picture is posted on the side :)

Excellent.

People from the past never said or wrote that they learn how to speak or write by themselves, do a baby learn how to speak if he/she was with his/her fellow baby? I think not, God created the languages(if you read the Bible you will learn about the "Tower of Babel",many people at the past make a tower so they could reach God, so God came down and confound their languages and scattered them around the world ,and now we all have different languages).

Darwin created the evolution theory, but he is an atheist, he is only manipulated by devil. He only invent the idea of the evolution he don't have a proof. Some said the fossild are the proof, the fossils are created after the "Great Genesis" many people and unknown animals died during that flood,there is a the Bible said waters underneath the earth burst out, so maybe thats why we have volcanoes and canyons, another proof is the the division of the continents.

Human dont came from monkeys cause they are very deferent.Monkeys can't talk, monkeys are hairy, monkeys can't make houses.Human can talk because of the languages and tongue God created, Humans have few hair, humans make houses to leave, humans is alive until now because of God provided our needs. almost monkeys(,or ape) and peoples are
the very slightly the same but monkeys are created to help men take care of the forest, they eat fruits and the seeds drops to the ground and there goes another tree. look of how God created everything but men don't know it. God is very humble so he didn't come down and talk to people making miracles to apreciate him He don't need us He is just testing us(maybe angels undergoes this stage to)we can't be a fail creation, People now like them called god so they make their own theory(they are the ones who forget God.

can anyone believe me if I'll say my own theory based from nothing like this: Aliens came from another planet and landed of earth they decided to make a human like themselves. And also other species from their planet. and the earth is born. alien made a moon so they will navigate us(like a satellite) without noticing them and also under ground using the caves,there is a lab underneath earth created by aliens. Do you believe me? ,but i will not believe this also I'm only invent it just like them but not true, i dont see them its only an imagination of mine just like Darwin.

For Those Computer Gamers Like me:
I'll compare life as a game and God is the designer,or creator of this big world(a free-roam game)but there is a bug or a virus" THE devil"
we must fight it. Scientist of the evolution theory today are infected by The Virus it erases the memory bank so they may think there is no God, and prefer to make their own creation. I say this to you there is a hotfix for this: we must trust Christ(the Savior, God the Son)as Savior and Lord of our lives who is crucified by man to make the heaven's door open and washed our sin so we can go to heaven(secret room).It is the is a very difficult procedure but thats the Greatest fix.We can install that fix if we trust Jesus Christ as Lord, and Savior who saved us from our sin and turn from sin whit his help not by our self .and if you done installing it correctly you will no be in HELL any more. So those who don't believe fell the wrath of God on his Second Coming(read the last book of the Bible the Revelation and you will know your punishment and those who believe know also your reward.

(This is from experience and it doesn't apply to everything, just some of what I've seen and been part of)

Sometimes, in religions and belief communities in general build up a set of rules, a reasoning that somehow doesn't look like it fits with the general view of the belief or religion. Let me explain with a past example I've been part of:

Otherkin, I was part of an otherkin community quite a few years ago and at first it was a very critical community, when someone joined up, the advice was strong, questions were answered but a "no bullshit" policy was in affect to ensure that noone started believing anything their mind could come up with.
Slowly though, that changed, more and more members joined that didn't agree with this and at a certain point this policy was demolished and literally "anyone" was allowed to join the group.

Now that wouldn't be a problem by itself, the problem came when anything those anyones could think of, was automatically accepted because,(and this is what was said) "its their own experience, we can't disagree with what they believe based on their experience".. It shocked me a bit because it got really crazy at that point. It was at that point that D&D got taken into the whole "experience" and other things got added that were just ludicrous.

And now comes the real point, because I remember getting into fights on the forum seeing as I noticed what was going on, and challenged this idea, this "accept all, whatever they believe, la la la" rule.. And I just now realize that eventhough my words were logical and I made good points.. It wasn't the message that caused them to dislike me and expelle me.. It was the fact that I didn't agree with the system.. The message wasn't important, I became someone that could potentially hurt the system, the "society" or "group" by being against the current new reasoning.
The fights grew heavier and at some point I left, having had enough of it.


Now this is seen in some christian and other religious communities as well, I've spoken to a christian friend with a lot of connections and experience with many different church and religious streams and although we didn't talk about that specific topic.. I do now remember talking about people who were "against" the system just by having a different opinion.. In some cases even being called "possesedby evil" if they thought the current system didn't work.. At such a point, the message didn't matter anymore either, the person was against the "system" and that was bad enough.

Now once again, this isn't so for all churches or communities.. But its true for some.