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Aganim ,

Isotope dating is based on assumptions, but for the presence of a Sky Daddy they just need a piece of paper containing stories which have changed (sometimes quite wildly) over the past centuries. Right, makes perfect sense.

Diddlydee ,

That bolt looks in suspiciously excellent condition.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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It’s a crinoid.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crinoid#Diversity

clif ,

I ALWAYS forget the name of these little guys even though I see them pretty frequently. Thank you for the reminder… I’ll try to commit it to memory this time (no promises)

DarkThoughts ,

It's certainly not a spiral thread, but individual rings, which aren't even uniform enough if they were a thread of a bolt or a screw.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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There is no question in my mind that it’s a crinoid. I grew up in a town in Southern Indiana that was essentially a giant crinoid bed in the Cambrian. I had so many pieces of crinoid. I even had a “flower,” which were really hard to find. Sadly, I lost it.

Here’s a bunch of “stems”:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/327b6404-efa8-4c4a-96ef-f63da26855e1.png

Here’s a “flower”:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3c2b4771-6472-4996-b46a-2c3e50dca3ad.png

I put those words in quotes, because a crinoid is actually an animal, not a plant. Here’s a sea lily, one of its modern descendents.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c285ae37-51e8-407e-81fa-ca19937c562e.png

crawancon ,

welp, I feel dumber. I tell you hwhat

RoidingOldMan ,

You see, if you add up the ages of all the characters in the Bible, include exactly 7 total days for the creation of the Earth, you get the only possible answer for the age of the Earth.

bobslaede ,

Are we sure these are real humans?

shalafi ,

No point in taking apart the ignorance in display, but I found A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson to be eye opening, science history for laymen.

One related item surprised me. Long before we arrived at the Earth’s age, proto-scientists, natural philosophers or what have you, were puzzled. Even a couple of hundred years back they couldn’t explain the age of the Earth given their observations, thinking a few million years couldn’t be possible. Turns out, they were right, just not thinking big enough.

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