Has evolutionism become a leading religion?

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Originally Posted by coadie

Of course they invent dates.



So the unlucky camper burried by volcanic rock at mt St helens will be 1.6 million years old.

No, the gentleman's driver's license in his pocket establishes his age. The "rocks" that buried him will show a variety of dates because they were formed at different times. I suppose that radiocarbon dating on the human remains would provide reliable dates, if we could find the guy.

Meanwhile, two bodies were found on a ridge across from the volcano. These were two geologists who were firmly convinced of the veracity of radiometric dating. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...years_ago.html

Some of the rocks in the debris were xenoliths. These are rocks transported from elsewhere. They are of a different composition from the rocks around them. Others were molten when the volcano blew and will show evidence of having been.

Because of the jumbled nature of this type of terrain, every textbook that you will ever read (or if you're coadie, every picture that you will look at) tells the geologists that these deposits are NOT suitable for radiometric dating wherever they are found.

Ironically, it was just this caution by real geologists that attracted people like Ken Ham and ICR to Mount Saint Helens. They realized that they'd be able to make some use of the "jumbled terrain" and provide even more confusion.

Honesty seeks to settle confusion. Dishonest people, like Ken Ham & Co., seek to gain from it. Only a disturbed Orwellian like coadie would find it all a source of glee.

Originally Posted by coadie

The Machivellian Principles of deception stiil work today.

Who all thinks Mr St Helens rocks/lava flow were formed 1.3 billion years ago?

Many of the rocks in the mud flow were probably formed at a time as distant as that.

The "flow" from Mount Saint Helens was a MUDFLOW - not a LAVA FLOW. Any recently formed rocks were "ejecta" from the throat of the volcanic vent. Everything else that "FLOWED" that day was formed sometime BEFORE May 18, 1980.

Otherwise, it would NOT HAVE EXISTED on May 18, 1980, and been available to FLOW down the Mountain.

**** An older discussion about dating techniques and the discredited "RATE Project" can be found here. You may also want to scroll back a few pages from that post and peruse the material.