I had a dude come up to me at the reference desk and tell me that the earth can’t be billions (he said trillions, lol) of years old because erosion from the Mississippi River would make it wider and deeper than it is. I pulled up some info including the idea that the Mississippi was something that came about more recently because of plate shifting, etc and he just said, "Nah."

but who made the uranium?

nO ThAT’s jUSt gOD tEStiNg yOuR FAiTh

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"Whatever! Pssshhh!"

The tragedy is that humans aren't convinced to change their minds by facts like this. They're convinced by good stories from their friends and family.

If uranium-238 can be Fused in a star why couldn’t lead be Fused directly and in tern all the elements in between.

ALLEGEDLY .

The correct answer would have been: "Why should I? You're an idiot."

This would mean that there was more uranium around millions and billions of years in the past so why isn't there any evidence of prehistoric nukes in the fossil record