Hieronymus
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Hieronymus
6d ago
Also I assume that this rests on a bedrock of "carbon dating is fake/wrong"?
Yes, young-earth creationists are skeptical of carbon dating as applied. Carbon dating relies on the ratio of Carbon-14 to Carbon-12 in the atmosphere being more or less constant, and YEC tends to doubt this. Among other things, assuming the level of cosmic radiation has remained consistent, an earth less than 10,000 years old should still be gaining more Carbon-14 than it loses to nuclear decay.
I am afraid I don’t know enough to critique or defend the objection intelligently. But since you asked, I summarize.
Hieronymus
6d ago
I guess there's also a possible world where The Indian Justice is actually intrigued and tries harder to come up with a theory that sort of comports with the gov't position and lets him give Native Americans 14A citizenship?
Indians were given citizenship by statute a century ago. Given that they're aIready citizens regardless, this hardly seems worth losing sleep over. I'm clearly missing a piece here. What else does this tie into?
Hieronymus
6d ago
And probably again after the flood, depending on the knowledge of Noah's sons
Those are important bugs, and I am glad they've been fixed. They demonstrate an impressive level of capability.
But I was picturing multiple simultaneous Spectres and Heartbleeds, which would have been horrifying. I am grateful that this is more wakeup-call tier.
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