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Solar System Date of Birth Determined
Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "UC Davis researchers have dated the earliest step in the formation of the solar system — when microscopic interstellar dust coalesced into mountain-sized chunks of rock — to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years. In the second stage, mountain-sized masses grew quickly into about 20 Mars-sized planets and, in the third and final stage, these small planets smashed into each other in a series of giant collisions that left the planets we know today. The dates of these intermediary stages are well established. The article abstract is available from Astrophysical Journal Letters."
This article is another slashdot dupe or hoax
By using this data they are able to come to this conclusion
Political joke or not brain comas are not funny
the millions of years within this range is very acceptable
Neither is your incessant linking to that site. Luckily, I generally have JavaScript blocked; if I unblock it at that site, Bad Things happen. What the hell is up with that?
Whether that was addressed to me, and you just can't read a "Reply to this" link, or not...
I'd like to thank you for providing me with the single most defensive response to attempted humor I've ever seen.
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Funny? Mods starting the weekend a little early I see. Anyway the evolution craziness can't all be blamed on the Baptists, it's fundamentalists of all sorts that are the trouble. Baptists, yes, but also Seventh Day Adventists, Pentecostals, and plenty of other evangelical churches. There are also many creationists that are actually Catholics despite the previous pope being on the record as supporting the idea of evolution.
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