pinkcottoncandy:
its like this science of a thing anything wey enter their mouth na him dem go jus yarn....which one is 3 billion years old again...

also,

if man evolved from apes, why do we still have apes?

Men didn't evolve from apes,

Men shared same ancestors with apes.

The world have been existing for hundreds of million years before human life formed,

Our planet is 4.56billion yrs old.

Evolution is still take place. The world is just doing her stuff

BanevsJoker:
Onye bu nuoa?

lol abeg

Ghostmode2two:


How old you now that you seems to be a genus from age 11? I wonder why you can't just educate a fellow without garnishing it with insults

And nope. I ain't a genius. Quite a slow guy myself.

I stole my father's book and read it. It was a book on Zoology, botany and Taxonomy. Quite a bulky book. And I still read it till this day. That's several years on.

TorukMakto:



Men didn't evolve from apes,

Men shared same ancestors with apes.

The world have been existing for hundreds of million years ago before human life formed,

Lies... What million of years...

Take it or leave it. The earth is about 6200 years

Jokerman:


Lies... What million of years...

Take it or leave it. The earth is about 6200 years

Ok

BigJoe19:
Most of them only get interested in things that have to do with tales of spirituality, like stories of how a person performed blood money, how a virgin can pray for you to be successful and many other funny things.

Tell you what, we don't think deeply. We just like to indulge in things that have no basis in reality.

Can you imagine? I once met a doctor in this country praying for his patient. And the family members joined in.

Now, how about revoking the charlatan's bloody license? Nobody thought of that.

Sad. Our blooming reality.

kevoh:

Google RadioCarbon dating! These things are taught as far back as secondary school!

Good! The question then is, how and why should we take radiocarbon to be the absolute and finite answer when severally, radiocarbon dating accuracy, has been called to question?

mansakhalifa:
This is the most important piece of this article. If you don't understand, then you are not an initiate. Matter of fact, I came here looking for this very line:



The sharks lived about 330 million years ago in what is known as the Late Mississippian geologic time period, when much of North America was covered by oceans.

Meaning wetin.

You sef can u interpret the "Late Mississippian" jargon dem write there?

When my Bible tells me the whole living creatures existence is just 7k+ on earth. And this one is telling me he has found a dead shark's head is more than 330 milla old. Who go believe am?

Darwinian thrash!!!

mansakhalifa:


And nope. I ain't a genius. Quite a slow guy myself.

I stole my father's book and read it. It was a book on Zoology, botany and Taxonomy. Quite a bulky book. And I still read it till this day. That's several years on.

That's nice

membranus:


Meaning wetin.

You sef can u interpret the "Late Mississippian" jargon dem write there?

When my Bible tells me the whole living creatures existence is just 7k+ on earth. And this one is telling me he has found a dead shark's head is more than 330 milla old. Who go believe am?

Darwinian thrash!!!

You want find word for my mouth abi

You failed. But wetin I done dey cracking since I dey primary sch. with this your kind 7k years mental configuration, you no go fit crack from now till eternity.

So, disappear.

Mr. Methusellah. Even the Earth is just 2000 years old. It started with the birth of John the Baptist. Lol

BigJoe19:
For me to answer your question, I have to ask you a question. Which department were you in when you were in secondary school ?

Igbo Igbo BK

How did they calculate the number of years, you just have to adore the modern science

mansakhalifa:


Tell you what, we don't think deeply. We just like to indulge in things that have no basis in reality.

Can you imagine? I once met a doctor in this country praying for his patient. And the family members joined in.

Now, how about revoking the charlatan's bloody license? Nobody thought of that.

Sad. Our blooming reality.

It's just too funny, sometimes when they react to things with their myopic mindset, I just laugh and shake my head.

When will mere discovery scientists have sense?

BigJoe19:
It's just too funny, sometimes when they react to things with their myopic mindset I just laugh and shake my head.

You take things easy a lot, I see.

Me? I just feel like shedding tears sometimes.

But then, I remember my father's words- "men don't cry"- and I stop myself.

But I am steady losing my sanity day in day out with these comments.
Don't post such threads on NL if you are like me.

How do you know that shark � is 330 million years

TorukMakto:



Men didn't evolve from apes,

Men shared same ancestors with apes.

The world have been existing for hundreds of million years before human life formed,

Our planet is 4.56billion yrs old.

Evolution is still take place. The world is just doing her stuff

Easy... that's way too difficult for her. What are you trying to do, sir?

mansakhalifa:


You want find word for my mouth abi

You failed. But wetin I done dey cracking since I dey primary sch. with this your kind 7k years mental configuration, you no go fit crack from now till eternity.

So, disappear.

Mr. Methusellah. Even the Earth is just 2000 years old. It started with the birth of John the Baptist. Lol

Why should I disappear when I am still catching my fun on the earth? I am going nowhere until kingdom come.

Meanwhile I know the earth is a timeless planet no doubt. But human and all living creatures on it are less than 10k years on it.

Even with that limited years see what they have made of it. Violence and plundering from age one. And now that we are at the tail end of it all hopes for its restoration is lost.

Think about this.

mansakhalifa:


You take things easy a lot, I see.

Me? I just feel like shedding tears sometimes.

But then, I remember my father's words- "men don't cry"- and I stop myself.

But I am steady losing my sanity day in day out with these comments.
Don't post such threads on NL if you are like me.

Do you know why I laugh? Africans don't take corrections, they like sticking to tales of things they can't see, feel or hear from, they take such things sacred.

mansakhalifa:


OK OK OK...

I stink at explaining things but I will tell you one thing. When scientists want to find out these things, they deploy methods such as radiocarbon dating process or radioisotope dating and things like that. In this case, which involves fossils of whales, they must have deployed radioisotope dating to arrive at the possible age of the fossils as radiocarbon dating won't give them exactly what they want as those fossils are well over 60,000 years old.

And you also have to know that the earth is billions of years old. And all through history, a lot has changed about the planet. So, if at age 11, I was already aware of the fact that much of North America and certain other continents were under the ocean some millions of years ago before the ocean finally receded giving way to land, then I am really surprised that many full-grown adults are ignorant of that fact.

Man, tell you what. The Earth is a wonder. And science is the way to go. I am an Art student FYI. But I deeply appreciate the sciences and wish my people can embrace science fully.

These same people can't challenge scientist and ask how does phone work.
Most Nigerians believe Oyibo scientists stole juju from Africa and used it to build phones and other techs.

philip0906:

Good! The question then is, how and why should we take radiocarbon to be the absolute and finite answer when severally, radiocarbon dating accuracy, has been called to question?

The method looks pretty straightforward and can be fine-tuned to be more accurate. Are there any other reliable and accurate technique of dating that you are aware of? If yes, please spill it here.

SenatePresdo:
How this guys calculate the years of this fossils that stretches to hundreds of million still baffles me.

Carbon dating

TorukMakto:




These same people can't challenge scientist and ask how does phone work.
Most Nigerians believe Oyibo scientists stole juju from Africa and used it to build phones and other techs.

You are correct, this is exactly how they think, their brains are totally useless.

SenatePresdo:
How this guys calculate the years of this fossils that stretches to hundreds of million still baffles me.

It's called carbon dating using a radiator. The most common one used is the greiger muller counter

kevoh:

The method looks pretty straightforward and can be fine-tuned to be more accurate. Are there any other reliable and accurate technique of dating that you are aware of? If yes, please spill it here.

Firstly, there is NOTHING straight forward about the method, else it won't be prone to errors. Like I said, carbon dating several times, has had it's accuracy questioned by scientists.

Secondly, my point is, it is ridiculous to lampoon Biblical timeline on the grounds that it's accuracy is questionable, when the scientific alternative, is as questionable as the one we accuse.

Ykc2:
how plane dey take dey fly ?how you go dey naija call person wey dey Brazil or Australia he go answer you go even see him for video call,how rocket dey go moon you no know how submarine dey go under water you no know and you wan argue about shark's age take your mentality to Chad or Somalia where people with type of your mindsets live

I'm sure if that mumu knew how phones or laptops work, how he's able to post on internet/nairaland, he would not be saying rubbish.

Oyibo scientist are sacrificing their time working hard to make names for themselves and one mumu is here saying rubbish about them.

Your children will read about them and probably appreciate them.

Wow

Why is it that they are always found in oyinbo land

Scientists, I cut cap for una.
How will a shark lives more than the amount of money owns by a state..

Mad ooo

SenatePresdo:
How this guys calculate the years of this fossils that stretches to hundreds of million still baffles me.

It's through radioactivity!

PS: Carbon dating

philip0906:

Good! The question then is, how and why should we take radiocarbon to be the absolute and finite answer when severally, radiocarbon dating accuracy, has been called to question?

Lol, I hope you asked this question with an open mind and not to argue.
Having said that, while I'm a science student (not the Olamide type, lol) I'm no expert on thus subject matter neither does my field relate to this but I'd try to use basic chemistry to explain the best way I can. I might not be really accurate
But with regards to how this carbon dating works, here's what I remember. There's something called half life. Most elements have a certain number of time for it to decay to half its size continually. Say like an hypothetical element P has a half life of 1 year. If there is 1000 P in a certain bag by this time by next year you'd meet just 500, by the year after just 250.
Now carbon has it's own half life (I think) which is very large (more than 1 year). Now,let's say its half life is 10yrs and on average a human bone contains 1000 of it. Since the body would stop functioning after death, if I see a corpse and check how many carbon is contained in its bones and it's just 500 I can safely say the corpse had been decaying for 10years.
But truth is not everyone has the same number of carbon. We would each have numbers different but close to the average that science specifies for each human being. While there is no way to surely know how many a particular corpse contains at the time of death, the average could be used and the time calculated would only be an estimate.
This is just the basic concept I can remember from secondary. Might not really be accurate but I believe is the general overview