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.
That bolt looks in suspiciously excellent condition.
It’s a crinoid.
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)
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.
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.
I had no idea those were animals. Fascinating.
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.
welp, I feel dumber. I tell you hwhat
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.
Orrrrr, humans and dinosaurs coexisted for 64,994,000 years.
Checkmate, paleontologists
ninja edit: …and anthropologists
Are we sure these are real humans?
