Posted on 10/11/2010 6:38:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
To the ‘guy’ that says I’m full of sh*t, First off, if they weren’t carbon dated, how did they know how old these spears were? Because they may have been imbeded in coal? Does anyone remember the incident where coal miners broke into an air pocket in the coal and there was a frog hibernating inside that slowly came alive!? Second, If you aren’t A Christian or Jewish person, you won’t understand the concept of the ‘canopy’ of water and mist surrounding the earth before the great flood (the great flood was written about by almost all civilizations living at the time), thus keeping the sun’s more harmfull rays from man, allowing him to live to great ages. It also preserved a delicate balance of things we will never know about. When the flood came (canopy dropped and the oceans within the earth were released) It threw ‘carbon’ dating out the window. The instant bombardment to the earth of these harmfull rays affected mankind by greatly reducing their life expectancy, the rays also radiated and fried the earth’s fauna and substances of every kind as to render any type of carbon dating unreliable. AFTER the flood carbon dating became spot on and reliable. I may not be totally correct about all of this and laugh if you want, but that’s where faith comes in. We will find out who was more accurate about these events when we get to heaven.
I said you didn't know what you were talking about, not that you're full of ****. You still don't.
The limit on radiocarbon dating is about 45,000 years. There are ample resources online about this, plus this has been mentioned in each topic where someone who doesn't understand this had it explained to them. There's no excuse for not knowing about it, particularly for not knowing before you troll in a science topic. There are other radiometric methods of dating, and each one has a different range of age that it works within, thanks to radioactive half-lives.
No one remembers the incident with the live frog was found in coal, because it never happened. It has however often shown up, with a wide variety of different locations and details. It is a tall tale, nothing more.
The OT records The Deluge. Cultures all over the world had tales of local flood events from various widely spaced times, and all of them different. Citing one of those, or all of them, merely undermines the OT version, it doesn't strengthen it.
There was no canopy of water. "The Waters Above" came out, hmm, perhaps 30 years ago, and exceeded the length of the work that originated the notion of the water canopy. It was being sold via a fringe magazine of some sort that I used to get in the mail. But neither book nor the many derivative scribblings on the water canopy has made the idea feasible or even plausible, even if there were evidence that it had ever existed (there isn't any). Carbon dating works on artifacts that have been submerged in the ocean for thousands of years -- so no canopy of water falling down is going to have direct or indirect impact on the accuracy of carbon dating.
That’s Europe. No Cro-Magnons in Africa or Asia.
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