POKEMON EVOLUTION DEBATE

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POKEMON EVOLUTION DEBATE; HERE
Topic Started: Feb 18 2010, 12:17 AM (150 Views)
Palmer	Feb 18 2010, 12:17 AM Post #1
Lvl 8 Admiral Posts: 3,123 Group: Members Member #97 Joined: June 27, 2005	Alright, this thread isn't debating the existence of God or God's role in humanity. However, evolution. Believe it or not, the sheltered existence that is the Mormon college (BYU) actually teaches about evolution. It's becoming increasingly evident that it can't be ignored. Though, it was more taught with a stand point of natural selection, and leaving the class to determine their own thought on human existence. Which leads me to my question, how accurate is carbon dating? Isn't that how we are dating fossils and things to be millions of years old? If yes, how come we never stumble on anything that is like... 4,000 years old? Why is everything exponentially huge? I guess because the Earth is so old, but dang.



Wastrel	Feb 18 2010, 12:27 AM Post #2
Fry-to-the-Maximum "The Original Black Man" (the artist formerly known as Sex) LaKillsio Posts: 2,071 Group: Members Member #42 Joined: September 29, 2004	Carbon dating is only used for short-term dating (about 50 thousand years), so it's really easy to get an exact date using that method. But no, we don't use it for anything really old. As for not stumbling on anything within 4k years...like...what kind of stumbling are you expecting? That's a thin film on the grand scale of the Earth's life (about 4 billion years). It's pretty hard to find anything notable buried within only four thousand years.



Palmer	Feb 18 2010, 01:12 AM Post #3
Lvl 8 Admiral Posts: 3,123 Group: Members Member #97 Joined: June 27, 2005	Wastrel Feb 18 2010, 12:27 AM Carbon dating is only used for short-term dating (about 50 thousand years) Then what are the other dating methods? Quote: what kind of stumbling are you expecting? I dunno, but every single skeleton and fossil and bone is like 3948534534 years old



Wastrel	Feb 18 2010, 01:33 AM Post #4
Fry-to-the-Maximum "The Original Black Man" (the artist formerly known as Sex) LaKillsio Posts: 2,071 Group: Members Member #42 Joined: September 29, 2004	Palmer Feb 18 2010, 01:12 AM Wastrel Feb 18 2010, 12:27 AM Carbon dating is only used for short-term dating (about 50 thousand years) Then what are the other dating methods? Various elements. Uranium and Potassium are also popular for dating. Uranium takes a fucking long time for its half-life (the isotope Uranium-238 takes 4 billion years, making it pretty much the oldest isotope used for dating), while Potassium is for mid-range. You can use any element, really, just as long as it has a known half-life. Palmer Wastrel what kind of stumbling are you expecting? I dunno, but every single skeleton and fossil and bone is like 3948534534 years old Most everything that's recent we already know about. Since the dinosaurs were a long time ago (I'm not looking up the actual dates I'm lazy) it's gonna be way more scarce to find their fossils, and has a higher likelyhood of finding crucial pieces for known skeletons or even pieces to an entirely new species. Not to mention the whole meteor business fucking up the Earth. Edited by Wastrel, Feb 18 2010, 01:36 AM.



Pyroclasm	Feb 18 2010, 08:32 AM Post #5
STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM Posts: 724 Group: Members Member #37 Joined: September 15, 2004	IF MAGICARP EVOLVES INTO GYRADOS, WHY ARE THERE STILL MAGICARP? HUH? ANWSER THAT ONE MR. SMARTYPANTS EVOLUTIONIST!
	"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world - "No, you move.""


Nuklearsamurai	Feb 18 2010, 10:10 AM Post #6
The Winter Master Posts: 682 Group: Members Member #2,595 Joined: December 13, 2009	because 80% of all magikarp are too retarded to realize the glory that is a Gyarados
	Only in music does 0+0=12


DA_KLOWN	Feb 18 2010, 01:37 PM Post #7
Gotta catch 'em all. Yep. Posts: 2,481 Group: Members Member #147 Joined: August 26, 2006	Too busy splashin'.
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DarkSteele	Feb 18 2010, 03:45 PM Post #8
My chest hair makes a bird. Posts: 14,629 Group: Super-Mod Member #9 Joined: August 4, 2004	Um... duh? Magikarp are the babies, they turn into gyrados if they live long enough to grow up. But, you know, people and predators eat them or they are too dumb to live... just like real fish. Shit you guys, I think its pretty safe to say I'm the only true pokemon master here.
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Pyroclasm	Feb 18 2010, 04:25 PM Post #9
STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM Posts: 724 Group: Members Member #37 Joined: September 15, 2004	Thread DERAILED!
	"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world - "No, you move.""


Palmer	Feb 18 2010, 05:15 PM Post #10
Lvl 8 Admiral Posts: 3,123 Group: Members Member #97 Joined: June 27, 2005	Pyroclasm Feb 18 2010, 04:25 PM Thread DERAILED! My hat is off to you



Nuklearsamurai	Feb 18 2010, 05:52 PM Post #11
The Winter Master Posts: 682 Group: Members Member #2,595 Joined: December 13, 2009	Pyroclasm Thread DERAILED! Your point?
	Only in music does 0+0=12


Pyroclasm	Feb 18 2010, 09:39 PM Post #12
STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM Posts: 724 Group: Members Member #37 Joined: September 15, 2004	Nuklearsamurai Feb 18 2010, 05:52 PM Your point? That I am awesome.
	"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world - "No, you move.""


Nuklearsamurai	Feb 19 2010, 12:19 AM Post #13
The Winter Master Posts: 682 Group: Members Member #2,595 Joined: December 13, 2009	An acceptable point. i concede to you.
	Only in music does 0+0=12


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