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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
I had a dude come up to me at the reference desk and tell me that the earth can’t be billions (he said trillions, lol) of years old because erosion from the Mississippi River would make it wider and deeper than it is. I pulled up some info including the idea that the Mississippi was something that came about more recently because of plate shifting, etc and he just said, "Nah."
nO ThAT’s jUSt gOD tEStiNg yOuR FAiTh
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Yeah this doesn’t do squat to prove or disprove anything to these nutters.
I’ve done the same with a variety of other things and you will get told the same thing:
God put it here.
Thing is you cannot argue with the above statement because it falls into that sort of argument you used to have when you were a child when the other kid would say ‘Nyah! Last word!!’ or ‘I can’t hear you!!’
If uranium-238 can be Fused in a star why couldn’t lead be Fused directly and in tern all the elements in between.
The correct answer would have been: "Why should I? You're an idiot."
"Whatever! Pssshhh!"
The tragedy is that humans aren't convinced to change their minds by facts like this. They're convinced by good stories from their friends and family.
In the begining, was uranium, and the uranium was not stable?