Potassium-Argon dating. It’s a common tactic to challenge the validity of radiometric dating by saying that the rate of radioactive decay can’t be said to have been constant throughout time. I suspect someone along the line misunderstood the concept of exponential decay and propagated this nonsense.
Yes, we will. And the answer will be “due to a slight miscalculation, a few more years into the future”, because armageddon doesn’t keep those nickels and dimes flowing into the bank accounts of the charlatans who make their livings off of predicting it. The ranks of the deluded are ever eager to pay for the frisson they get from the certainty of oblivion.
Are Calvinist ministers pre-ordained? 
Fie! Dating outside your group is clearly against the laws of God and nature.
Interesting. I forgot about that after high school. I’d heard of Carbon-14 dating. I don’t think jasourdough will be enthused about that either.
Now that I think about it, jasourdough, does it matter that you were drastically wrong about the timing of the proposed population bottlenecks? If you’re going to accuse people of having “blind faith” in science you should probably take care not to get both science and the Bible wrong at the same time. Those mistakes show you believe in your story even though the facts don’t support it, which could be described as… well, you know. But the fact is that these bottlenecks are theorized and not proven, so they don’t provide much support for your view. And if they do, you got all the details wrong: the bottlenecks happened too early and were not narrow enough.
Note that this is around 65,000 years too early for your theory, and that if the population never got lower than about 15,000, Noah is gonna need a bigger boat.
This is a smaller number over a longer period of time - so it was not caused by a catastrophe like a flood - but it’s still tens of thousands of years before “Noah.”
KAr dates, no less!
So what are you saying? That “No man knows the day of the hour” was correct at the time it was written but is no longer correct? That parts of the Bible were true in the past but are no longer true?
This whole theory is based on an unusual claim made on April Fools’ Day? Heh.
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All I know is, the last time there was some definitive date that the world was going to end, I thought 1) “Ain’t no way in hell …” and 2) “Yabbut, just in case, I’m not doing laundry!”
At the time, I had to hand-wash every item of clothing I wore, and there was no way I was spending my last day of existence scrubbing my undies. You know. Just in case. (The next day, the sun rose as normal and I went back to my regularly scheduled chores, including washing my clothes.)
Making a mental note to do no laundry and enjoy some quality heathen sinning on both May 21, 2011 and December 2012. Just in case.
And why is it that everyone who says they have decoded the Bible or some other ancient source and discovered the date for the end of the world always discovers it’s right around the corner? Why doesn’t anyone ever discover that the end of the world is going to happen on November 10, 3084?
I love you guys.
It’s November 11, 3084… get it right.
You think this is good, you should try talking to a “flat-earther”.
Great. I’ve just spent all afternoon doing budget and workload projections through to end 2011… and I might as well have just stopped at May.
Mind you, I guess I’ll need to update the Business Continuity Plan to include “end of the world” as well as fire, flood, terrorist attack etc, just to be on the safe side.
I thought this had something to do with the Mayan calendar? Or is that a different end-of-the-world?
Wow. As a Born-Again Christian and former Preacher Of The Word of God, I’d like to say this is the most willfully ignorant thing I have ever read, and I cannot believe I read it here.
As a Christian, jasourdough, your goal should be Truth. So remember this: Science is your friend.
(And so is grammar. The Lord God didst divide the To and the Too, ne’er the twain to be intermingled.)
But please don’t be disgusted by the apostates here and turn away, jas, because the entertainment value of your “logic” is, well, inspired. Keep posting. I’m sure you’ll make some converts, or at least enlighten all of us a bit.
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Seriously, you are bringing up some arguments that I have never heard before. And that is something. I really would like to hear more.
Midnight in Jerusalem, which puts it one calendar day earlier in North America.
But, this one, also from Gyrate, may be even better:
For “General Questions” the answer is easy, gullibility and stupidity. Maybe go to GD for the rest of it?
It’s nice to see he has kept his sense of humour.
A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on
1 + 6 + 2 + 1 + 6 + 4 = 20
1 + 5 + 2 + 4 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 27
3 + 1 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 5 + 3 + 5 = 29
2 + 4 + 2 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 2 = 23
27 - 20 = 7
29 - 23 = 6
Journey
Don’t stop belieivng
7
4 + 4 + 9 = 17
17 - 7= 10
7/6/10
The world ends in like 5 weeks!
Grab your guns and follow me!