George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Ask and you shall receive.
Benedikt Neuzweig@georgetakei God created the lead. Checkmate, atheists.
MyDogTycho@benedikt_lauenburg @georgetakei yeah but we invented God
Jargoggles
🇳𝗮ꜟ𝖼𝘩@benedikt_lauenburg @georgetakei
There's always a way to bring it back to god creating everything, as long as you don't mind zooming the goalposts around like they are attached to faulty rockets that are jammed on full power.
There's always a way to bring it back to god creating everything, as long as you don't mind zooming the goalposts around like they are attached to faulty rockets that are jammed on full power.
D.EJE.D@Naich @georgetakei @benedikt_lauenburg there will always be an apologetic unfalsifiable (in the Popperian sense) response in the name of god. And they can always claim that they don't believe the methods to determine the age of things... Once you tell them that the same way they don't believe scientific claims is how you doubt their sources, it's a stalemate situation... Nothing gained, nothing lost.
Elise Veltman - van Reekum@EduEdu @Naich @georgetakei @benedikt_lauenburg
About that nothing lost.... Woman would like to keep our right to healthcare!
About that nothing lost.... Woman would like to keep our right to healthcare!
Magitism@Naich @benedikt_lauenburg @georgetakei always? Supernatural causation is impossible to analyze/verify with natural means. An omniscient being can only know of their omniscience through that omniscience. Such a being can’t verify their omniscience isn’t lying to them. Therefore any God that claims to have omniscience is lying and anything they claim shouldn’t be trusted.
Stu Duerson, machina exo deus@benedikt_lauenburg @georgetakei
Are you talking about lead as formed by the neutron-absorption process, or by the decay of radionuclides of heavier elements? Let's be precise, now.
Atheists, freed from the time consuming process of having to constantly kiss God's ass, have made the time to study physics. Knowledge is so much more sexy than myth.
oh, I'm sorry. Was HE listening? Is HE mad with me? oh, well.
Tobias Denkinger@benedikt_lauenburg @georgetakei The devil created lead to trick us into thinking earth is older than 4000 years. (Probably by starting with a boatload of Uranium-238 so that the amount of lead produced by the decay-chain after 4000 years is large enough for us to notice.)
RodneyPetersonTalentAgency@benedikt_lauenburg @georgetakei
Just how full of shit is The Bible?
Check it out for yourself verse by verse. The whole damn thing:
Skepticsannotatedbible.com
Andy Buckley@georgetakei This isn't the only way to make lead, and I bet a majority of the lead that exists didn't get there via uranium, etc. decays ... but I still approve this dunk
ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESif i recall correctly the first work done on estimating the age of the earth was done with rocks that they can prove form with uranium, but not with lead. therefore, any lead in such rocks can only come from uranium decay, and with that they can age the rocks
and more broadly, i think they can also show how lead that was formed as lead is different than lead that formed from radioactive decay, depending on the dominant isotope number
cqd_sos@benroyce @agbuckley @georgetakei
Uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating. They do that with minerals (like zircon) that reject lead but contain uranium. So when they find lead in there is has to come from a decay process.
Uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating. They do that with minerals (like zircon) that reject lead but contain uranium. So when they find lead in there is has to come from a decay process.
Gssy@cqd_sos @benroyce @agbuckley @georgetakei thanks for these answers, I was thinking the same thing as Andy
Morgan ⚧️@benroyce @agbuckley @georgetakei probably would have been better if the original comment had included this valuable info instead of saying "the existence of lead" lol
@raphaelmorgan @agbuckley @georgetakei
yup, he should have said "the existence of lead besides lead-204"
but i forgive him because
1. it's a throw away social media dunk, not a thesis paper
2. those who know, know what he's getting at without the need to be 100% scientifically accurate
3. those who, rather than merely not knowing, but outright antagonistic towards science, won't even try to understand
Seth Brown@agbuckley @georgetakei please explain to me how you can create an element without a nuclear reaction?
My education is probably limited in this area.
@SethBrown @georgetakei There's a nuclear reaction, but most lead comes from building _up_ from lighter elements, not decaying _down_ from heavier ones.
Heavy elements are dominantly made by supernovae (since iron is the most stable nuclear structure, fusion burning doesn't get to heavier elements).
So heavy = rare: you don't get most of a very stable heavy element (lead is a common endpoint of nuclear decay chains) by decays down from rarer things.
@SethBrown @georgetakei Instead most lead in the universe is built by repeated neutron accumulation and beta decay in stars. Wikipedia is good on this, under "Origin and occurrence" at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead The amount due to delays is about 0.75%... over 4.5 billion years!
Skeptic@georgetakei
Ignorance isn't bliss, it's just embarrassing to everyone but the ignorant.
Ignorance isn't bliss, it's just embarrassing to everyone but the ignorant.
ferricoxide@georgetakei
Unless you believe that God "antiqued" the Earth, then none of that matters.
Unless you believe that God "antiqued" the Earth, then none of that matters.
Kawaoneechan@ferricoxide @georgetakei Ah. Last Thursday-ism and all that?
@kawa @georgetakei
/shrug
When it comes down to it, I know of no way of proving that what I perceive as "yesterday" – or any arbitrary moment prior to "now" – actually happened.
/shrug
When it comes down to it, I know of no way of proving that what I perceive as "yesterday" – or any arbitrary moment prior to "now" – actually happened.
Rufus T. Firefly@kawa @ferricoxide @georgetakei Ah, "Scientific Last Thursdayism." There's a blast from the Usenet past. Creationists always have a trap door labeled "God did it" when they paint themselves into a logical corner. Pointless to engage with them.
@chuck88 Makes for excellent YT videos though.
Raptor 
@ferricoxide @georgetakei even if they did believe that 4000 years is literally within the scope of recorded human history
Rose 📚🎼Me: Ok, sure it is, but are we talking human years? Dog years? Went under a magical hill to party with the fey so time’s a little wacky now years?
Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.@georgetakei
The late great Bill Hicks had a great take on this: https://youtu.be/YzKV8oaI9V8?si=CX4Z9SvyIDn1pdyp
The late great Bill Hicks had a great take on this: https://youtu.be/YzKV8oaI9V8?si=CX4Z9SvyIDn1pdyp
Bill Hicks - Dinosaurs in the Bible (polskie napisy).avi
BeeCycling has moved@georgetakei Can't change a mind that's atrophied from lack of use.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@georgetakei But was his mind really changed?
🎓 Doc Freemo 
🇳🇱Scientist here, just a bit of a pet peve here. This isnt a good answer. Lead can form through normal processes (stellar)and doesnt require radioactive decay as its main source. In fact most lead on earth existed when the earth was formed.
I'm curious, did you see my reply on Takei's post directly, or from my page or something?
@freemo @georgetakei
I'm following George on Mastodon and just scrolled through the replies to this particular post, because I also felt the answer left much to be desired and was curious what others might have to say on that.
I'm following George on Mastodon and just scrolled through the replies to this particular post, because I also felt the answer left much to be desired and was curious what others might have to say on that.
Thts interesting since Universeodon recently suspended our whole server in retaliation for me calling our their new moderator for abusive practices. So wouldnt have expected my replies to show.
@freemo @georgetakei
Maybe your answers don't show up on their server (universeodeon.com), and are invisible for George in consequence, but do show up on others which haven't banned yours, like mine (mastodon.online).
Never looked into how Mastodon works precisely, and whether ban lists propagate, for example.
@freemo @georgetakei
Seems so. Looking at the posts' page on George's server directly your answer appears to be missing. https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/111936656496446905
Seems so. Looking at the posts' page on George's server directly your answer appears to be missing. https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/111936656496446905
George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 (@[email protected])
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Khleedril@freemo @georgetakei Yup. The proper answer is to do with the changing ratios of the decaying isotopes, but that's for somebody cleverer than me to work out.
Daniel Casanueva@freemo @georgetakei I was scrolling down looking for a better answer, since the one in the original post didn't convince me either. Thanks for sharing some knowledge!
Peterrone@georgetakei dear God, help me to shut up until I know what I'm talking about.
Kevin Granade has moved@peterrone @georgetakei oh so that's where vows of silence come from.
MasterMischief@georgetakei This would be sufficient if we were dealing with Vulcans. Instead, we are stuck with humans.
Gavin Sheedy@georgetakei I have learnt my thing for today!
My Head’s Exploding 🤯 💥@georgetakei FYI: Many times your pics just don’t come through. Unknown if common or just me. iOS on iPhone here.
Matthew@mrblissett Thank you. Was hoping someone would chime in with something. 👍
@leswarden
Try a fresh profile/defaults/cleaning temp files?
Try a fresh profile/defaults/cleaning temp files?
Aviva Gary@georgetakei snap snap and the comments are great
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@georgetakei Yeahbut that's what you and I would call "facts". Gammons don't do facts, they simply don't see them as relevant to their lives.
Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶
That_Damn_FrankMr. Takei,
I asked for a Suozzi for Valentine's Day... and I Got One!
( I guess I owe @realdonaldtrump a Valentine now, huh? )
PetterOfCats@georgetakei we need to stop playing into the trolls' hand like this. Demand that they have empirical proof of their claim.
"Earth is flat!" prove it.
Darwin Woodka@georgetakei can't fix stupid
Karl Auerbach@georgetakei That is a terrible argument - it presumes that there is exactly one pathway for the creation of the element lead. I do not know the various pathways to form lead, but the argument posited does not deal with that.