Posted: Mar 08, 2010 12:05 pm
OgreMkV wrote:I sure hope that's a Poe.
Don't know if that was for me or someone else but I like radon gas arguments as the gas kills mostly innocent people and yet it is the byproduct of a decay chain from the longest lived chains (the disintegration chain of U 238). We're talking billions of years here and it'll be doing this for billions of years to come.
So when talking to a YEC who is mangling the decay chains I usually bring up Radon gas because of the usefulness of the gas in highlighting the absurdities. The YEC is kind of doomed to the following style of arguments,
Either God accelerated the decay chains so messing up radionuclide dating systems and forgot about radon gas or God knows about radon gas but failed to highlight the dangers in the Bible (though other dangerous stuff got a mention). Or God knows about Radon gas and doesn't care that innocent people get lung cancer, or God couldn't work out how to get rid of Radon gas in the disintegration chain no matter how hard God tried. Or God just wanted more jobs for the Radon gas membrane and sensor manufacturers and installers unions.