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[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Where is the proof about these magic numbers? Checkmate atheist. /s

[–] unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All math is a lib lie! Just look at those blasphemous arabic numerals!

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

round numbers are always made up. change my mind

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Lead 204 is entirely primordial and the other isotopes found on earth would be found at roughly the same concentration were all of the lead on earth primordial. It's the excess ratios of the other isotopes of lead that can be attributed to radioactive decay. That is a substantial proportion of the lead on earth, but to say the "existence of lead" is proof of the age of the earth is entirely incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_lead

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[–] Pixlbabble@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

But the half life of polonium 210 is just 138 days. other is a few days. radium 226 is 1602 years. Why couldn't the earth have started with a lot of radium 226? Checkmate round earthers.

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

Could have started with lead directly. Why go the extra mile.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"God made the world with lead in it"

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[–] StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

There's evidence of human civilization and agriculture going back at least 10,000 years. You have to be extremely willfully ignorant to think the earth is only 4,000 years old. Hell the pyramid of Giza is older than that.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We obviously live in a matrix/simulated world, and it can't be older than 50 years, because before that, computers didn't exist. Checkmate christians.

/jk

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Is decay the only way to get lead? I mean if uranium gets synthesized can't lead get made as well?

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

WERE YOU THERE TO SEE IT???? - The next moronic rebuttal

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