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I just wrote a document dealing with LLD determination for radioactive dose measurements. (I am the lead researcher on a new instrument.) They are not measuring noise.

Assuming you're correct, and the original piece is correct, then why does the C14 in some older samples "prove" that God created the world in 6 days? There are a great many other things that might have generated the same measurements. (By the way, read 50sDad's post, its great. If your goal is to insure that most scientifically people never find God, then continue your creationist work).

The tables have turned. The statues are falling. Many scientists are being exposed as being not only fallible but biased, deceiving and dishonest on the question of evolution.

You got a quote in a scientific journal along that line? Knowing that scientists compete with each other like dogs for new discoveries, any scientific traction along a creationist bent would be huge (hugh) news. The lack of any acknowledgement along that line in the scientific literature of such things would mean you're blowing smoke.

Every scientist, like every person, and certainly everyone with a political party, cannot help but tweak and prod everything they do along the railroad track of their own existing beliefs. I challenge everyone to invent a New Idea that doesn't build on what they already "know" to be true.

I havent read all the posts here and I have no need to read the article to know its BS. I would like to explain something to the creationists. YOU CANNOT C14 DATE A FOSSIL.

Here are some reasons

1. Fossils are not organic.
2. Fossils by their very nature are inorganic because they are made of rock.
3. Rock can't be C14 dated it isn't organic.
4. Only organic material can be C14 dated
5. fossils are created when minerals leach into an area left by the decay of the organic structure. Fossils are rock
6. If you find C14 in a rock it was introduced after the fossilization. The organic material deacyed many many uyears before
7. Damp coal promotes bacteria growth bacteria is organic and contains C14.
Being an archaeologist I know that if we even find coal in an area we don't bother to C14 date organic materials as they might be contaminated.