If I recall correctly, it's from an article about how to appropriately explain the more controversial aspects of evolutionary/geological theories. This is what makes your quote mining a little more ironic.
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
One or more of those is from an American Journal of Science article and I found a place where I need a subscription to get to see a pdf of it or something. Either he poked holes at questionable practice or he didn't? How about post more as opposed to accusing of me of being a liar if you claim I quoted something out of context? Did he not also claim that radiometric dating would not have been feasible if the geologic column had not been erected first?
Lionz wrote:One or more of those is from an American Journal of Science article and I found a place where I need a subscription to get to see a pdf of it or something. Either he poked holes at questionable practice or he didn't? How about post more as opposed to accusing of me of being a liar if you claim I quoted something out of context? Did he not also claim that radiometric dating would not have been feasible if the geologic column had not been erected first?
Lionz wrote:The intelligent layman has long suspected circular reasoning in the use of rocks to date fossils and fossils to date rocks. The geologist has never bothered to think of a good reply." (J.O'Rourke in the American Journal of Science)
J. O'Rourke in the actual AJS wrote: The intelligent layman has long suspected circular reasoning in the use of rocks to date fossils and fossils to date rocks. The geologist has never bothered to think of a good reply, feeling that explanations are not worth the trouble as long as the work brings results. This is supposed to be hard-headed pragmatism.
Then he goes on to explain why this is bad. Poorly, but whatever. The point is that you have misrepresented O'Rourke. I don't know why you insist on lying to me, Lionz. I think he may have talked about how important stratigraphy was for calibrating and empirically testing the accuracy of radiometric dating, but until I see how you want to scramble his words around in an effort to mislead me, I think we should stick to a single issue for simplicity's sake.
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
What do you have a problem with if I quoted him criticising it like it was bad and he goes on further to explain why it is bad? Did you think I was trying to claim he was a young earth creationist? And what can stratigraphy tell us if dates rely on index fossils and radiometric dating techniques that are based on faulty assumptions in the first place?
Gillipig,
Do you figure that all matter is self created and that inorganic self created matter somehow managed to create life and consciousness and intelligence?
Is there a reply someone can point me towards that doesn't call on tree rings or a radiometric dating technique based on a secular view of history in the first place that assumes a starting point and constant rate of decay through all time?
Lionz wrote:Is there a reply someone can point me towards that doesn't call on tree rings or a radiometric dating technique based on a secular view of history in the first place that assumes a starting point and constant rate of decay through all time?
Yes.
saxitoxin wrote:Your position is more complex than the federal tax code. As soon as I think I understand it, I find another index of cross-references, exceptions and amendments I have to apply.
Timminz wrote:Yo mama is so classless, she could be a Marxist utopia.
Lionz wrote:Is there a reply someone can point me towards that doesn't call on tree rings or a radiometric dating technique based on a secular view of history in the first place that assumes a starting point and constant rate of decay through all time?
You want a form of dating that hasn't been calibrated or checked against any other known forms of dating? Why?
Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
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