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Eat lead (mander.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where is the proof about these magic numbers? Checkmate atheist. /s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All math is a lib lie! Just look at those blasphemous arabic numerals!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lead 204 is entirely primordial and the other isotopes found on earth would be found at roughly the same concentration were all of the lead on earth primordial. It's the excess ratios of the other isotopes of lead that can be attributed to radioactive decay. That is a substantial proportion of the lead on earth, but to say the "existence of lead" is proof of the age of the earth is entirely incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_lead

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

round numbers are always made up. change my mind

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Göbekli Tepe

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[–] humanspiral 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But the half life of polonium 210 is just 138 days. other is a few days. radium 226 is 1602 years. Why couldn't the earth have started with a lot of radium 226? Checkmate round earthers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Could have started with lead directly. Why go the extra mile.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"God made the world with lead in it"

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[–] DrBob 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is decay the only way to get lead? I mean if uranium gets synthesized can't lead get made as well?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

We obviously live in a matrix/simulated world, and it can't be older than 50 years, because before that, computers didn't exist. Checkmate christians.

/jk

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

WERE YOU THERE TO SEE IT???? - The next moronic rebuttal

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

nO ThAT’s jUSt gOD tEStiNg yOuR FAiTh

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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!!’

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