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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We went out of town this weekend. Went to a place where there was a geological formation. The plaque mentioned that it had taken  2 million years for this particular formation to come about. A woman behind us was reading the plaque out loud to her family. She then stops and tells her kids, "You know that's impossible right?"

My kids were confused and asked me why she said that.

How would you have responded? Would you have responded right then while the woman and her family were in earshot or would you have waited till they left?

Thanks.[/quote]

I would have told them the truth - that some people believe the world was made in 7 days.  Others - like us -  take a different approach, looking to science for answers.

How often are you in situations like that anyway?  Make it a learning moment, I say![/quote]

Carbon dating, when you go back many years, has never been proven.  For lack of a better way to explain it (my grandparents were Harvard/Nasa scientists who explained it to me in layman's terms), there are so few carbons when you go back many many years that the possible margin or error is enormous, i.e., is it 100,000 years old?  1 million years old? 1 billion years old.  Who knows - it's essentially only a theory when you go back that far because it has NEVER been verified.  We have no dated documents or other dated evidence from millions of years ago with which to verify. [/quote]

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