Is the Grand canyon still the same condition from 5 million years? what is sooo important bout it?
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No, the Grand canyon is not the same as it was 5 million years ago.  It probably wasn't there 5 milion years ago. The Grand canyon is constantly changing due to the natural rock being sandstone, the river is constant wearing the sandstone away and depositing the sand into the sea/ocean.
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It depends on what you are looking to find. Big Bend has an olivine granite, which is very rare. The Guadalupe Mountains have the world's largest exposed barrier reef. These are two great geological features in my home state. Almost any national park can claim something unique. Just look at the Grand Canyon with its great sedimentology. The best geology is a relative term.
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Considering that the oldest tenuously linked ancestor "Lucy" lived a mere 3 million years ago, and all of recorded history occurred in the last 5000 or so years...you are asking what our descendents will be doing on a time scale that is over a thousand times longer than it took for us to evolve from Lucy, or over 1 million times longer than it took for us to progress from stone age to space age....
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I hope that in 5 billion years. We have somewhat evolved beyond this planet. Besides we won't have enough land or fossil fuels to last the next five hundred. I can hardly imagine five billion years from now.
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4.5 billion years. \n\nCheck with the US Geological Survey for a great timeline and all the data to back it up, based on radioisotopes of minerals found in rocks.
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Approximately 5,000,000,000 years
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If there was a worldwide flood, there should be layers of rock that could be determined to be pre-flood, a layer laid down during the flood, and layers that are post-flood. With all the "Creation Scientists" looking for some type of evidence to support their notions that there was a global flood, not one has found anything remotely close to the sequence I stated.
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Applications of the concept that the present is the key to the past in the earth's history:\n1. volcanology: Today, volcanic rocks are generated at active volcanic centers--from the cooling of lava. We assume that when we map out similar rocks in older strata that they also formed at volcanic centers--even if there is no active volcanism in the area today. \n2. paleontology and paleoenvironment: We know that certain plants and animals live in the ocean and certain organisms live on land.  If we find fossils of marine organisms(like oysters, corals, ammonoids, shark teeth) in sedimentary rocks on high mountains, we interpret that the strata were originally deposited on the sea bottom that has since been uplifted.\n3. paleoenvironment: we know that modern desert areas covered by dunes have certain characteristics--that the dunes have certain types of crossbeds, the sand is well-sorted and well-rounded, for example. If we observe similar characteristics in sandstone beds of the Colorado Plateau, for example, that is considered evidence for an arid desert environment in the past.\n4. Modern plate boundaries are associated with major fault systems, certain rocks types, etc. In  the Sierra Nevada, geologists have mapped out ancient fault boundaries that put marine sedimentary rocks against dissimilar volcanic arc-related rocks. The patterns they have mapped out are considered evidence that the plate boundary of North America was once a convergent margin located farther east than it is today.
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The earth is BILLIONS of years old. That's 4500 Million years old , (about).\n\nPeople think know this because of four ways of thinking about it.\n\n1. We know about how old the sun is. \n\nThink of a soda with ice. when we start drinking theres plenty of soda and a the ice is frozen and the soda is cold, when the soda gets "older" it is more watery because the ice has all melted, when the soda gets really "old" the soda becomes flat and doesn't taste good. \n\nIt's kinda like that with the sun, we can see other stars, some that are young and some that are old and when we look at them all we can know the sun is about 4.5 billion years old based on how it behaves. \n\nStars are also a little bit like people in how they behave. Very young sun-like stars are bright and white or yellow and very active. Adolesent stars are not as active but are still bright and usually yellow or light orange in color. Middle age stars are orange and not quite as active. Old stars are darker colors of orange and even less active,and may start to get fatter and very old stars will grow bloated , turn redish and then become more dim and evenually end up becoming nurserys for other stars or planets after they die.\n\nWe think the earth formed at the same time as the sun, so that is about 4.5 billion years ago. \n\n2. Some elements on earth "decay" at a certain rate, think of it like a rusting tool in a shed or work area. One of the metals, Uranium decays over billions of years , almost all of the Uranium on the earth is of the same "decaying" age. That age is about 4.5 billion years ago. Oxygen and other elements have other "decay" rates and these also tend to support the fact that the earth has had oxygen in the atmosphere for about 3 billion years.\n\n3. We know the earth is old because of fossils , some fossils are of shells of sea animals that are very simple. Some of these shells are found on the highest mountains in the world. So if we say these shells were once deep in an ocean "how often do earthquakes move this mountains" and "how much does the mountain move up or down up each time", if we then say ok "we've been here watching this mountain for 200 years and there were two earthquakes and each earthquake  moved the mountain 1 inch. How long would it take to move 100 miles and 3 miles up. \n\nBy answering questions like that we can figure out how old certain mountains are, by doing this all over the earth the oldest mountains/rocks are in Australia and Canada and they are were formed a little less than 4 billion years ago.\n\n4. We think the moon formed from the earth being hit by another planet about the size of the planet mars, and we think that this happened about 4 to 3.5 billion years ago based on how far the moon is moving away from the earth and the incline of the earth and the moon.\n\nSome religions, notably the evangelical movement in the US, believe the earth was formed by God in 6 days. They figure based on the Bible backwards from when someone dies or was born backwards from Jesus , to King David, to Noah, to Adam and Eve and based on that math the Earth is only 6000 years old.  \n\nThis is not supported by any scientists as a good, reasonable date as the planet's surface is too large and would still be mostly molten rock if it was only 6000 years old and there would be no oceans or life just a big molten radioactive lava ball in space like a red hot bigger version of the moon...\n\nOther religions say that the earth was the result of a giant fight amongst the Gods and almost every society of man has what is called a "creation myth" which is how primitive people explain good questions when they don't _know_ or can't figure out the answers.
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It should be habitable for another billion years unless we do something to deal with the increase in energy the sun is giving out.\n\nThe Earth should be destroyed after about 5 billion when the sun becomes a red giant (unless of course we remove some mass from the sun to make it last longer).  If it isn't destroyed by that then it'll last a very long time (not sure how long, could be until end of the universe however that happens) but it won't be very useful (except for materials).
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The fossil history is false. The scientists don't know what they are talking about. Radiometric dating is flawed. Everything is a lie except the Bible. I am trying out the other side of this argument. It's pretty weak I must say.
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The program you refer to 'Walking with Prehistoric Beasts' was a Discovery channel production - everything on this channel is slightly off - it's not geared for truth and accuracy so much as it is entertainment and advertising revenue. John S. Hendricks, the company's founder, chairman and CEO seems like a good guy but his corporate partners are very profit-minded.\n\nPrehistoric mammals arose in the Cenozoic Era (65 million years ago till the present) which is divided into the Tertiary and Quaternary Periods. Tertiary Epochs include the Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene and Pliocene. Quaternary Epochs include the Pleistocene and Holocene. Each epoch is further subdivided and each division has its own climate and suite of living species, a few are familiar to us, most are extinct. \n\nThis is a huge slice of time and the best of what we know is not available on the web. If you're serious about pursuing these beasts your best reference will be authoritative books and .edu or .org websites - the .com websites offer content for profit, and so there's a lot of misinformation.\n\nhttp://ucpress.edu/books/pages/9890/9890.prologue.pdf\nhttp://www.bowdoin.edu/%7Edbensen/Welcome.html\nhttp://www.unswpress.com.au/isbn/0868404357.htm\nhttp://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0792271343/103-2634623-3332631?v=glance&n=283155\netc.
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So let me get this right...  \nAdam lived 1/5 to 1/6 of the time the planet has been here?\n\nInsane and stupid is harsh.  I probably wouldn't go that far unless you insulted my belief that...  like somebody else said, there are written records from before 5000 years ago.\n\nThere are ruins of cities <not encampments of cave people, but actual CITIES> that are 10,000 years old.
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Question 1. \nExample 1-Navajo Sandstone Formation, Jurassic, covers large areas of the Colorado Plateau-including Zion National Park). The most characteristic feature of this formation is that it has thick deposits of well-sorted quartz sandstone with big cross beds(sedimentary structures)--indicating that the sand was deposited by wind as dunes, in a giant sand sea (think Sahara).\nhttp://www.agiweb.org/geotimes/nov03/NN_navajo.htm\nExample 2: \nRadiolarian chert of the Franciscan Complex, California. Jurassic and Cretaceous. Good outcrops in the Marin Headlands, north side of Golden Gate bridge, in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Thinly bedded maroon to pale green alternating layers of chert and siliceous mudstone.  The chert is chock-full of pin-head size radiolarian fossils--radiolarians are open-ocean marine plankton--but has no shallow marine fossils or calcareous plankton These sediments were deposited in deep water in the open ocean. Since they sit on basalt, it has been inferred that they were deposited on ocean crust. \nExample 3: \nFossiliferous Permian limestone, Texas, Capitan Reef in Guadalupe Mountains National Park\n"Over millions of years, calcareous sponges and algae combined with other lime-secreting marine organisms and vast quantities of lime that precipitated directly from the seawater to form the 400-mile-long, horseshoe-shaped Capitan Reef." --http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/parks/gumo/\nCompare to warm, shallow Great Barrier Reef of Australia.\nExample 4: \nCretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation in Dinosaur National Park.  A 2002 study of rocks types, textures, and sedimentary features lead a group of researchers to conclude that the paleoenvironment was generally arid to semi-arid terrestrial with occasional flashy, extreme rainfall events. \nhttp://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/abstract_46144.htm\nExample 5: \nMoraine deposits all over the Great Lakes area are evidence for continental glaciers during the Ice Ages.\n\nQuestion 2: \nNumerical Age dating\nhttp://www.gpc.edu/~pgore/geology/geo102/radio.htm\nhttp://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/radiometric.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating \nQuestion 3:\nAs for "what kind of information is given by a rock?" --partly answered here already.  A rock may give information useful for determing one or more of  the following: Age, tectonic setting and history of formation, paleoenvironment, climate information, biological history of life info (if fossiliferous), paleolatitude, etc.
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The fact that the globe has been slowly warming up ever since the last ice age should be reason enough to suspect that global warming isn't at all a catastrophe.  We people on Earth really need to start looking to other problems like natural resources.
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Bible says, "Earth is 6,000 years old."\n\nArcheology and Ancient History says, "Earth is BILLIONS of years old." Radio Carbon Dating proves this.\n\nI've heard nonsensical retorts from bible thumpers that say, "Oh, yea fossils are caused when lightning hits trees or bones, so that's why there are fossils." (This is BS).\n=========================\nBible says, "Dinosaurs? What dinosaurs?" (makes NO mention of dinosaurs) -- And imagine how long Adam and Eve would have lasted in the Land of Dinosaurs, LOL...\n\nArcheology, Paleontology, Ecology, Pathology, etc. says, "There are 1,000s of species of dinosaurs that are millions of years old".\n\n========================\nBible says, "There was one man and one woman starting out.(Adam and Eve)" -- This would have us believe incest is how we all came about. (Again, completely nonsensical). Next comes the cover story for this:\n\nThey're next retort is to tell the story of the "Tower of Babel".  This story tries to explain that the Adam and Eve family was "miraculously" split into millions of different races!  (AMAZING!).  All the humans decided they'd build a giant pyramid to heaven and overthrow god!  (HAHAHA silly humans! BAM, now you're 1,000 different races and tongues!)  --  What kind of nursery rhyme is this?\n--------------------------------------------------\n ONLY Bush-voting, Rush Limbaugh-listening, Bill O'Reilly- Talking Headed baffoons can believe this kind of s***.\n\nHuman ecology and pathology would show that it is IMPOSSIBLE to have inbreeding like this, without the bad effects.  Humans would be complete mongoloids now with horrible deformities.\n========================\nWhy is evolution so hard to believe?  Given the billions of years it takes for chemicals to react and combine and recombine, things happen.  Synthetic materials are produced, entities are born.\n\nI imagine if bible thumpers didn't know about wind they'd assume that famous rock formations were made by the "hand of god".\n\nReligion should have gone the way of the dinosaur, but sadly, we are stuck in a land of barbarian-like people.  It's easier to believe what you're told to believe, than to think for yourself, thus evolving yourself...\n--------------------------------------------\nChurches are a BILLION-DOLLAR a year industry!\nEach church tells you to give 10% of your income each week!\nIf the average(low) person pays their (10%) or .1*$400/week = $40). Imagine an average church has 200 members.  200 * $40 = $8000 (GASP).  And there are MEGA CHURCHES that have attendances of around 5,000 or so... ($200,000/week) (DROOL)  Who wouldn't want to be a "preacher"?\n\nIf the "preacher" can do his job and get his congregation to believe the bull and create converts, he's basically filling his bankroll with more money.  It's the biggest pyramid(ponzi) scheme in history!
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The world was created in 6000 years. not 7.\n\n\n\n\n.