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    Isotope dating is based on assumptions, but for the presence of a Sky Daddy they just need a piece of paper containing stories which have changed (sometimes quite wildly) over the past centuries. Right, makes perfect sense.

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        I ALWAYS forget the name of these little guys even though I see them pretty frequently. Thank you for the reminder… I’ll try to commit it to memory this time (no promises)

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        It’s certainly not a spiral thread, but individual rings, which aren’t even uniform enough if they were a thread of a bolt or a screw.

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          There is no question in my mind that it’s a crinoid. I grew up in a town in Southern Indiana that was essentially a giant crinoid bed in the Cambrian. I had so many pieces of crinoid. I even had a “flower,” which were really hard to find. Sadly, I lost it.

          Here’s a bunch of “stems”:

          Here’s a “flower”:

          I put those words in quotes, because a crinoid is actually an animal, not a plant. Here’s a sea lily, one of its modern descendents.

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    You see, if you add up the ages of all the characters in the Bible, include exactly 7 total days for the creation of the Earth, you get the only possible answer for the age of the Earth.

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    No point in taking apart the ignorance in display, but I found A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson to be eye opening, science history for laymen.

    One related item surprised me. Long before we arrived at the Earth’s age, proto-scientists, natural philosophers or what have you, were puzzled. Even a couple of hundred years back they couldn’t explain the age of the Earth given their observations, thinking a few million years couldn’t be possible. Turns out, they were right, just not thinking big enough.

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    Orrrrr, humans and dinosaurs coexisted for 64,994,000 years.

    Checkmate, paleontologists

    ninja edit: …and anthropologists