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Originally Posted by Tervuren
These numbers have changed around a lot over the decades.
I would imagine they are still in flux.
I could spend a day pointing to different scientists and where they dated different things.
Something to keep in mind is that every single means we have of dating can be found to be contradictory. We are much more in the dark than the public is lead to believe.
Fossil beds have been found to often represent large-scale "rapid events" rather than the idea of continual long stretches of uneventful time. Yet these ideas still permeate since we do not like the idea that we do not have the answers.
A vertical tree in horizontal strata would require the entire layer of strata to have been formed in one event.
The frozen carcasses being exposed in the northern tundra speak to a dramatic event that flash froze.
There is also geographic evidence of a very rapid meltdown of ice pack instead of slow and gradual.
Until the ideas of rapid change become more accepted we will stay in the dark.
On this subject I'm not one to say what is correct, but I can see what is incorrect.
Ideological Dogma is in control of archeological and paleontological textbooks instead of the raw pursuit and sharing of "facts".
A strange part of our past is that both of our polar regions were free of ice and supported vegetation. Vegetation that would not survive the months of consistent darkness.
This would imply that relationship of the surface of the earth and the rotation of the earth was not as it is today.
There are lots of legends of the sun moving not being consistent in the sky, they are likely based on a real event, or events.
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Wait, you do understand the sun does NOT orbit the earth. Only the rotation of the planet gives the appearance of the sun moving. The planet rotates at a very stable rate.
For the sun to appear to stand still would mean the planet stopped rotating. If that happened everything including mountains would fall down and be moving at thousands of miles per hour, and the crust would become molten. Bad thing.
Any legend of the sun moving or stopping is just make believe.