Originally Posted by Itinerant Lurker Would anyone who had the power to save hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children from being shot, tortured, beaten, raped, and hacked to death with machetes but chose to do nothing be considered moral? Of course not, but god apparently gets a free pass simply for being god. This strikes me as nothing short of heinous. When something good happens, then god is good; when evil occurs, god is inexplicably mysterious. Better yet, god charitably declines to intervene ...
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The sun is powered by nuclear fusion which takes place at it's core, which looks something like this: This process produces photons which, in order to be seen as light, need to make their way out of the core of the sun to the surface before they can begin their 8 minute journey from the sun's surface to your eyes on earth. "The core is the only location in the Sun that produces ...
Carbon dating is a form of radiometric dating which measures ages based on the amount of radioactive decay that has taken place. To understand any of these dating methods you need to understand some of the basic properties of matter. All matter is composed of atoms, which are in turn composed of a nucleus made of positively charged particles (protons) and particles with a neutral charge (neutrons) orbited by a cloud of electrons. Here's an example: ...