Is there any evidence that the Earth is 4 billion years old? That seems kind of far-fetched

Is there any evidence that the Earth is 4 billion years old? That seems kind of far-fetched.

No. Now use your newfound knowledge to enlighten others.

They can measure rocks because the carbon in them decays at a constant rate.

what do americans even learn in school?

how to be diverse and tolerant

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You may call me Barbosa, Alberto Barbosa.

yes there is

that's just a theory

Read a fucking book

Carbon dating actually can't take us back too far, it's better for the thousands of years range

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Please kill yourself

> just a theory
Your right so is gravity why don't you jump of a bridge and come back with your conclusion

you realize we can measure with other elements besides carbon right?

remove yourself from gene pool

This is WE WUZ KANGZ tier

Actual, traces of carbon are found within living things. Our very life is carbon based, the whole planet. In order to measure time, with an error of 5 to 10 million of years, we found fossils dating billions of years.
It means the planet is far older than we expected it to be, but its exact date is unknown. So, it has more than 4 billion years, give or take.

Well he is technical correct it is a theory just like gravity

According to the chosen people it's actually billion

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Even USA is 240 years old.
Huh... Really makes you think.

No, it's likely far older.

It's 2016, not 400000016

Hawt. Post more plox

your trips
P.S its 4.5 Billion

kagney linn karter ?

Look at the layers of ice down on the south pole senpai

>That seems kind of far-fetched
That is because you have evolved into an animal for whom 30 years is a long time. You are anthropamorphizing the concept of time. You look at the walls around you, a world your people built, and you think "this took a very long time to make!" Bit it didn't. It only took "a long time" because it was longer than your lifespan.

When you are dead, a billion years will pass instantly. And so will the rest of time. From your nonexistent perspective.

You're looking at the cart, not the horse.

true potassium dating and also some geomagnetic analysis gave us the first estimate for teh Earths age at around 3.4444 billion years old.

never seen a zambia before. hi.

blow muh mind.

it may be a theory, and the facts may just adhere to it, but for all intents and purposes, the facts are reality as seen