{"id":483,"date":"2006-03-26T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T12:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2007-03-01T22:06:39","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T22:06:39","slug":"to-hatfield-and-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"To Hatfield and back&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a week of feeling a little rough, I decided against travelling half-way across the country and back again in one day. Instead, Sarah had twigged I wouldn&#8217;t be doing anything so asked if I wanted to go to a talk by Paul Taylor from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.answersingenesis.org\/\">Answers in Genesis<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hope4hatfield.org\/\">Hatfield Evangelical Baptist Church<\/a>. Whilst I&#8217;m not a supreme fan of the AIG lot (ask me, and I might explain), I&#8217;m certainly no evolutionist, so I thought it would be interesting to find out what&#8217;s new on the creation\/evolution debate. I came away with very little new information. This isn&#8217;t to say the exisiting information was bad &#8211; I just knew it already. I knew that evolution relied on a few suppositions, such as a very old earth (approximately 4.6 billion years old) and a necessity for a lot of beneficial genetic mutation, which a lot of the evidence didn&#8217;t support.<\/p>\n<p>I did away with something new though. There has been found to be carbon-14 in coal. Now, according to evolutionary theory, coal was formed millions of years ago from dead plant material in mangrove swamps. However, carbon-14 has a very short half-life (relatively speaking) and only takes about 50,000 years to complete decay to carbon-12. The significance of this is that for carbon-14 to exist in this coal, it has to be less than 50,000 years old. The coal cannot be millions of years old. There you go.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after two talks, we headed back to Sarah&#8217;s and sat around and chatted until we realised the time. A nice relaxing and slightly educational end to the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after a week of feeling a little rough, I decided against travelling half-way across the country and back again in one day. Instead, Sarah had twigged I wouldn&#8217;t be doing anything so asked if I wanted to go to a talk by Paul Taylor from Answers in Genesis at Hatfield Evangelical Baptist Church. Whilst&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=483\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}