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To: TitansAFC
Carbon Dated a fossil...

Whoops? You were on a roll until there. You can't carbon date a fossil. Fossils are rock, no carbon.

You can carbon date a shell, a bone, even old charcoal if its from a good context, but you can't carbon date a rock.

Before you lecture scientists on science, better bone up on it a little.

64 posted on 06/13/2005 8:23:27 PM PDT by Coyoteman
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To: Coyoteman; TitansAFC

Not only can you not carbon date a fossil, but you can't even carbon date a shell, bone or old charcoal if it is more than about 50000 years old. The half life of C-14 is too short to be useful beyond about 50000 years.


138 posted on 06/14/2005 10:53:51 AM PDT by stremba
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