As with Evolution, Big Banging or other Long-Ager Gospel, C14 dating is riven with impossibilities and contradicts common sense and observational evidence.
Thanks David for the comments and insights. Very kind. Modern science criticises the medieval or early modern and scorns their investigations, claiming that their philosophies negated many important discoveries (not true but such are the claims). Yet in the 'modern world', we see the same 'trap' of 'science' and its tautological echo chambers, fuelled by money and power as your friend exemplifies - the need for status and optics.
On catastrophism, the hated Velikovsky (Earth in Upheaval) convinced Einstein of its merits with his usual meticulous detail (https://unstabbinated.substack.com/p/velikovsky-catastrophe-and-einstein). In the UK a Christian bishop Buckland analysed Kirkland Cave in Yorkshire (1821) and there was a veritable zoo of fossilised African animals, broken bones, shattered bodies, elephants, hippotami, lions, and many others including hyenas. Buckland bizarrely penned the official narrative which is that the fissure crack containing these beasts (relabelled a 'cave') was the home of hyenas (not native to Britain). They hunted, dragged their prey home and chewed on their bones. Mysteriously the hyena bones are also broken, fragmented and shattered...yet any official narrative calls this a great 'discovery' confirming long ages....ridiculous and stupid, but there it is.
'Apocalypse' by Amos Nur (2021) is similar to Velikovsky in some respects, 'The New Catastrophism' by Derek Ager (1993) is a good book, both provide sources, along with the founder of catastrophism 'Georges Cuvier' a good book on GC is by Martin Rudwick who translates the original French into English.
Catastrophism was the dominant theme until Lyell the lawyer who wanted to unmoor geology from Moses, came along with unsubstantiated long age claims (based on non-existing 'layers' of sedimentary rock). Agassiz (19th century) came up with the Ice Age theory - if true it would have fundamentally reduced carbon content, resulting in long ages of dating when the objects would be much younger. He is now of course labelled a white supremacist so Agassiz has been scrubbed from history but many of his ideas formed later geological concepts.
Hi David, good post - your friend is probably not unique. Education has been reduced to, as you say, collecting 'badges'. They teach theory in school as fact and there is little vocational or trades training - actually doing something with your hands is frowned on. Better memorise arcane maths or equations. Durant is probably right about ancient medicine, in the medieval period there were advances in surgery and discovery of all sorts but no one is taught them. How many know about Roger Bacon and optics - some 400 years in advance of Newton's similar discoveries? Eyeglasses were created in the 12th century. Imagine a world without them. The ancients - every culture - have records of floods, fires, earthquakes and cosmic disaster. 1250 BC ~ entire civilisations disappeared, probably due to a series of cosmic catastrophes. 750 BC the time of Isaiah, a similar set of terrrestrial catastrophes occurred. The Hindus date the Himalayas to about 3000 years in age, a mountain 10,000 feet high was formed in Mexico in 3 or 4 years in the 1930s. A new field of fossilised dinos was recently uncovered in Italy - all in the motion of fleeing a disaster. The hubris and arrogance of our age - we think we know everything when we know very little. $cientism as a project is a religion of pride and certainty, where neither is warranted. How rational are we really? Jenner et al were and are still frauds making profits but applauded as saviours. In comparison there is much to be said about the morals and cultures of the medieval and ancient pagan periods in some respects. Socrates, Plato, Cicero, Aurelius - they suffered their own ignorance and humility.
Thanks David for the comments and insights. Very kind. Modern science criticises the medieval or early modern and scorns their investigations, claiming that their philosophies negated many important discoveries (not true but such are the claims). Yet in the 'modern world', we see the same 'trap' of 'science' and its tautological echo chambers, fuelled by money and power as your friend exemplifies - the need for status and optics.
On catastrophism, the hated Velikovsky (Earth in Upheaval) convinced Einstein of its merits with his usual meticulous detail (https://unstabbinated.substack.com/p/velikovsky-catastrophe-and-einstein). In the UK a Christian bishop Buckland analysed Kirkland Cave in Yorkshire (1821) and there was a veritable zoo of fossilised African animals, broken bones, shattered bodies, elephants, hippotami, lions, and many others including hyenas. Buckland bizarrely penned the official narrative which is that the fissure crack containing these beasts (relabelled a 'cave') was the home of hyenas (not native to Britain). They hunted, dragged their prey home and chewed on their bones. Mysteriously the hyena bones are also broken, fragmented and shattered...yet any official narrative calls this a great 'discovery' confirming long ages....ridiculous and stupid, but there it is.
'Apocalypse' by Amos Nur (2021) is similar to Velikovsky in some respects, 'The New Catastrophism' by Derek Ager (1993) is a good book, both provide sources, along with the founder of catastrophism 'Georges Cuvier' a good book on GC is by Martin Rudwick who translates the original French into English.
Catastrophism was the dominant theme until Lyell the lawyer who wanted to unmoor geology from Moses, came along with unsubstantiated long age claims (based on non-existing 'layers' of sedimentary rock). Agassiz (19th century) came up with the Ice Age theory - if true it would have fundamentally reduced carbon content, resulting in long ages of dating when the objects would be much younger. He is now of course labelled a white supremacist so Agassiz has been scrubbed from history but many of his ideas formed later geological concepts.
Hi David, good post - your friend is probably not unique. Education has been reduced to, as you say, collecting 'badges'. They teach theory in school as fact and there is little vocational or trades training - actually doing something with your hands is frowned on. Better memorise arcane maths or equations. Durant is probably right about ancient medicine, in the medieval period there were advances in surgery and discovery of all sorts but no one is taught them. How many know about Roger Bacon and optics - some 400 years in advance of Newton's similar discoveries? Eyeglasses were created in the 12th century. Imagine a world without them. The ancients - every culture - have records of floods, fires, earthquakes and cosmic disaster. 1250 BC ~ entire civilisations disappeared, probably due to a series of cosmic catastrophes. 750 BC the time of Isaiah, a similar set of terrrestrial catastrophes occurred. The Hindus date the Himalayas to about 3000 years in age, a mountain 10,000 feet high was formed in Mexico in 3 or 4 years in the 1930s. A new field of fossilised dinos was recently uncovered in Italy - all in the motion of fleeing a disaster. The hubris and arrogance of our age - we think we know everything when we know very little. $cientism as a project is a religion of pride and certainty, where neither is warranted. How rational are we really? Jenner et al were and are still frauds making profits but applauded as saviours. In comparison there is much to be said about the morals and cultures of the medieval and ancient pagan periods in some respects. Socrates, Plato, Cicero, Aurelius - they suffered their own ignorance and humility.