Wesley Bruce wrote:
I better outline the experiments. The maths and chemistry is error free
but the assumptions are wrong. The assumption of dating is that the gases
argon, lead
vapor, radon etc escape from the volcanic lava before it hardens. . . .
In one case they took about 20 samples from a lava flow that flowed over a
road in New Zealand, 1953. These samples are all young. They were sent to
labs world wide and the calculated dates came back as millions of years
old. When the results were published the labs scrambled to cover up or
explain the results.
I have to grant, it sounds like someone has uncovered a serious problem
with the use of these instruments for these materials.
However, such problems are uncovered all the time in every aspect of
chemistry, archaeology and biology. That is called progress. However,
finding problems with one technique or one set of data does not mean you
have disproved the whole of theoretical basis of modern biology. That would
be like saying that because we have discovered cold fusion, we can now
dismiss all of the theories and discoveries in plasma fusion.
I just ask you to be as open to the creationists as you ask others to open
to the data on cold fusion.
I have been open minded. I can't help it; it's my nature to consider any
hypothesis. But I fail to see how creationism can be falsified or tested;
every organ that is supposedly too complicated to evolve obviously did
evolve because you find precursors; and biological mechanisms are about as
unintelligent as anything could be. If there is a designer he is not
intelligent but rather pathologically stupid or just plain malicious. Ask
any woman in labor.
No creationist I know of has ever attacked cold fusion.
So what? Neither has any member of the Ku Klux Klan, as far as I know.
The creationists have had decades more experience at fighting these subtle
and overt attempts at suppression.
They deserve to be suppressed. They would replace science with
superstitious malarkey. They would lead us back into the dark ages when
people's minds were enslaved by fear, ignorance and illogic. They are as
bad as the people who want to replace medicine with faith healing, and
democracy with theocracy.
The only problem is that suppressing them usually backfires and encourages
public support for them, so I think it is better to ignore such notions as
long as we keep them out of the public schools.
I think you have good reasons for wanting to prevent Al-Qaeda from getting
cold fusion nuclear subs or something.
There is not the slightest chance Al-Qaeda will *make* cold fusion devices,
or for that matter, conventional fission bombs. The only danger is that
they will steal these things. Al-Qaeda and their ilk are incapable of
making any technology. Even though the Al-Qaeda leaders are trained
engineers and medical doctors, their followers are ignorant savages mired
in a medieval mindset that rejects modernity and all that goes with it.
Such people could not make a bicycle, a vaccine or a transistor radio,
never mind the airplanes they used against us, or the nuclear bombs they
are trying to steal from the Russians. The only way they can hurt us is to
use our money -- the money we pay for oil, that is -- to buy or steal our
technology. And the only way we can stop them is to cut off the money, and
help the Russians secure or dismantle their warheads.
The Chinese are a different story. If they develop cold fusion several
years before we do, they will be in a position to develop the weapons are
described in my book, in chapter 11. That will make their military utterly
invulnerable. They will be able to destroy every American ship and airplane
at the touch of a button, with no danger or inconvenience to themselves. In
other words, the weapons technology gap will be as large as it was in the
other direction in 1842, when a handful of British ships defeated the
entire Chinese military and Emperor. The British used their immense power
to force the Chinese nation to buy British opium, which addicted and
ultimately killed millions of Chinese people. If the Chinese develop cold
fusion and we do not, they will be in a position to dictate foreign and
domestic policy to every other nation on earth. Let us hope they are more
enlightened than the British were in 1842. Frankly, I would not bet on
that, knowing the Chinese government and the way it treats vassal states
such as Tibet.
- Jed
