ATP synthase motor - brilliant design by the master designer

[Paraleptopecten (Timothy Campbell)]

@Burrawang

cannot be accurately calibrated

No, it’s not calibrated, it’s directly measured. And if it changed, then either God caused a pointless and deceptive miracle, atoms ceased to exist, or the Earth turned into a ball of radioactive plasma.

@Paraleptopecten

Assuming a person is about 60 kg, then something like 50 kGy per day is about right.

@Paraleptopecten

Note too that the related sped up radioactive decay would give Noah a beta-radiation dose (from the 40K atoms inside his own body, which for these purposes is basically all of the radioactive atoms inside a person) of about 50kGy per day (adding the background rate from the crust would up that to about 70kGy). Either way, that’s a fatal dose every few seconds.

That is an insane amount of radiation–10 times the dose inside the worst-contaminated parts of the Chernobyl reactor immediately after the meltdown. Except this lasts for 6 months.

That’s actually enough to kill Thermococcus gammatolerans.

@Paraleptopecten

Given that Uranium, Thorium, and Potassium are the most common radioactive elements, we can get an estimate of the energy released by looking at them. Both Uranium and Thorium require about 1 half-life to go by in six months, and Potassium-40 about 4 to produce the measured ages. Given their abundance in the earth and earth’s mass, that is roughly 6x10^44 becquerels. Alpha decays emit about 10 MeV each. Hence, 4.5x10^32 joules get poured into the earth in that time. For reference, that is slightly more than Earth’s binding energy, or about the amount of sunlight that hits the earth every billion years. That is also enough to raise temperatures at 1000K/s, re-melting the crust in about a second and vaporizing the earth in 10. By the end of six months, the ball of plasma once known as earth would be (assuming that it stayed the same size) about 22.5 kK and shining as brightly as a small star.

@Burrawang

relies on spurious assumptions

It relies on the assumptions that reality is real and is objectively knowable, that our senses give an accurate view of reality, and that measurable physical constants with observed effects on properties of the universe do not magically change with no evidence.

@Burrawang

they confirm what they believe, it’s called confirmation bias.

I don’t know of anyone who thought that pterotracheoids were closely related to littorinoids, and yet there are at least three research groups within the last five years who have found that based on statistical analysis of DNA sequences. I also don’t know of anyone who thought that Plesiotrochus had a Quaternary geographic range including the Carolinas, and yet I’ve seen two specimens of it from there.

@Burrawang

But I wonder how many of those scientists, if pressed without possible negative consequences of perhaps losing a large research funding grant

Given that I work in a field (systematic invertebrate paleontology) where a big grant might be a few tens of thousands of dollars, and occasionally someone in the field will manage to get a grant, that’s not an issue. It’s also a slander against scientists in relevant fields.

@Burrawang

losing the prestige of having one’s research paper published in say ‘Science’ or ‘Nature’ or any of 100 other journals, would still maintain that they aren’t making any assumptions about dates of say fossils for instance,

I just stated the assumptions made, and each one is also required for knowing that anything in the past existed at all.

@Burrawang

in real unmineralised dinosaur bone to be 66+ million years old?

That’s still a lie; the bones and tissues have been mineralized.

@Burrawang

easily repeatable straightforward laboratory experiments clearly demonstrate that the established laws of both physics and chemistry are severely violated when the soft tissue found in real unmineralised dinosaur bone are loudly proclaimed to be 66+ million years old?

What “established laws”? The same ones that say that radiometric decay can’t change speed?