Comments on: How Old Are the Bones? https://pauldage.com/2013/01/26/how-old-are-the-bones/ "That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth."--Tim O'Brien Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:28:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Zoro https://pauldage.com/2013/01/26/how-old-are-the-bones/comment-page-1/#comment-697 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:28:05 +0000 http://pauldage.com/?p=1340#comment-697 Living on a farm, I can tell you, there is a big difference in a smothering happening awake versus asleep.
Not that living on a farm has anything to do with it.

]]> By: pauldage https://pauldage.com/2013/01/26/how-old-are-the-bones/comment-page-1/#comment-696 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:48:21 +0000 http://pauldage.com/?p=1340#comment-696 Forrest, great comment about circular reasoning. I see it as a problem, but then again, there isn’t a problem because if everyone obeyed it there wouldn’t be a problem. LOL back at you!

]]> By: Forrest Loomis https://pauldage.com/2013/01/26/how-old-are-the-bones/comment-page-1/#comment-695 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:06:13 +0000 http://pauldage.com/?p=1340#comment-695 LOL. What thoughts. That’s why i would never make a novelist. I can tell you, however, that if a geologist says the bone is 100,000,000 years old, he really doesn’t know. It is all based on theory even though they teach it as fact. In fact, for aging dinosaur bones they use “circular” reasoning. I once had a great conversation with a geology professer about that. For example, he said “we know how old the bones are by which layer of earth we find them in”. Then, when I asked him how he knew how old that particular layer of earth was, he said “by the type of bones we find in it”. Anyway, when I told him that was circular reasoning, he refused to listen. Interesting!

Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:07:43 +0000 To: forrest3511@hotmail.com

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