tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728725441575309638.post7196968810945804536..comments2023-10-30T08:13:43.200-07:00Comments on Questioning Answers In Genesis: Concordance in meteorite dating: have I misunderstood Dr. Snelling?Chemostrat1646http://www.blogger.com/profile/01067579479402100587noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728725441575309638.post-73741755615561964452014-06-06T07:14:36.203-07:002014-06-06T07:14:36.203-07:00Since Wile is still banging on about you using Ad ...Since Wile is still banging on about you using Ad hominems (only) I have just submitted the following response (awaiting moderation):<br />"Well here is that Questioning Answers in Genesis post. People can judge whether he is relying solely on Ad hominems and whether it is him or you or both who are ignoring substance:<br />http://questioninganswersingenesis.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/concordance-in-meteorite-dating-have-i.html<br /><br />It is very clear to me that you have yet to comment in detail here on Baker's new post."ashleyhrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04408129014757944228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728725441575309638.post-40360440545928079812014-06-05T21:06:58.930-07:002014-06-05T21:06:58.930-07:00Well, I do draw some conclusions about his persona...Well, I do draw some conclusions about his personal attitude toward the evidence, but it's by no means an attack. In any case, deferring criticisms by attributing them to ad hominem attacks is a fairly good indication that one finds no substantial reason against those criticisms. It should be clear to anyone here that my arguments do not rest on Dr. Wile's personal competence/convictions. It matters not how smart or kind he is; he is still wrong about the expectation of geochronological concordance in the realm of 'accelerated nuclear decay'.Chemostrat1646https://www.blogger.com/profile/01067579479402100587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728725441575309638.post-36762023666090306032014-06-05T16:18:49.202-07:002014-06-05T16:18:49.202-07:00Jay Wile at Proslogion is (at the discussion of hi...Jay Wile at Proslogion is (at the discussion of his recent post about soft tissues) accusing the above blog post of "relying on Ad hominem attacks". I have attempted to reply as follows (it awaits moderation):<br />"You do not appear to be engaging with the SUBSTANCE of the comments by Questioning Answers in Genesis. Something I have seen many times from young earth creationists."ashleyhrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04408129014757944228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728725441575309638.post-60456840454381127192014-06-05T00:11:42.720-07:002014-06-05T00:11:42.720-07:00Thanks for the link, I'll be sure to read and ...Thanks for the link, I'll be sure to read and comment!Chemostrat1646https://www.blogger.com/profile/01067579479402100587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728725441575309638.post-17480117701645445302014-06-05T00:10:09.806-07:002014-06-05T00:10:09.806-07:00Cheers. :)Cheers. :)Chemostrat1646https://www.blogger.com/profile/01067579479402100587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728725441575309638.post-32042076804585255332014-06-04T23:18:12.318-07:002014-06-04T23:18:12.318-07:00P.S again, thank you very much for this blog. It ...P.S again, thank you very much for this blog. It has been very informative.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14168059350570206901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728725441575309638.post-7447790994228999862014-06-04T23:00:32.202-07:002014-06-04T23:00:32.202-07:00Thanks for the response to Dr Wile, and apologies ...Thanks for the response to Dr Wile, and apologies if I inadvertently stirred up some trouble by linking your post and Joel's one to his. I was hesitant to press further the MASSIVE issues with millionfold increases in decay rates (if thats even possible, as you so eloquently explained here) because I am a layperson in these fields.<br /><br /> It should be noted that the YEC conclusions raise massive theological problems as well, a God who stretches spacetime to make stars appear millions of light years away and deliberately accelerates nuclear decay rates seems to be deliberately doing so to misle human efforts to determine reliable ages. This bears all the hallmarks of a deceitful and capricious God.<br /><br />Off topic, I made a post on the problems of designed/created beings that may also apply to the theory of YEC special creation and intelligent design a while back. <br /><br />http://reformingthehereticalmind.blogspot.com/2014/06/are-these-intelligently-designed.html<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14168059350570206901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728725441575309638.post-62183678100432764112014-06-04T18:46:19.916-07:002014-06-04T18:46:19.916-07:00PPS
The Wile link is in fact to his HOME page (the...PPS<br />The Wile link is in fact to his HOME page (the soft tissue article appears because it is his latest article).<br />But he does NOT link to any SPECIFIC article which seems a bit lazy if nothing else,ashleyhrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04408129014757944228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728725441575309638.post-32304196345546423482014-06-04T18:43:54.402-07:002014-06-04T18:43:54.402-07:00PS The first of my two attempted comments to Jay W...PS The first of my two attempted comments to Jay Wile (awaiting moderation) reads:<br />"J Wile<br /><br />You boldly claim in a comment above: “The vast majority of the evidence points to a young earth”. Yet all I get when I click on the link is THIS blog post about soft tissues.<br /><br />This person convinced of a very ancient Earth and even more ancient universe is somewhat puzzled.<br /><br />Incidentally Questioning Answers in Genesis (non YEC Christian) has blogged again."ashleyhrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04408129014757944228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728725441575309638.post-14456643344819309662014-06-04T18:36:35.124-07:002014-06-04T18:36:35.124-07:00Jon
My initial reaction - BEFORE reading your new...Jon<br /><br />My initial reaction - BEFORE reading your new post - is that the Conclusions section to the Snelling paper (referenced in your earlier blog and discussed in comments under a recent Wile blog) included the following sentence: "There is no doubt that after decades of numerous careful radioisotope dating investigations of the Allende CV3 carbonaceous chondrite meteorite that its Pb-Pb isochron age of 4.56718 ± 0.0002 Ga has been well established" (he tries to explain this away).<br /><br />Incidentally I have tried to comment a couple of times under the Wile blog (and also did so at the latest Naturalis Historia post - before realising that Joel had already responded to criticisms against him by Wile).<br /> <br />As a non-chemist, non-palaeontologist and non-geologist I have to say my brain seized up when reading the very latest comments under the Wile blog ...<br /><br />Ashley H-Rashleyhrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04408129014757944228noreply@blogger.com