Posted on 02/19/2011 4:01:41 PM PST by AndyTheBear
"Carbon dating dinosaur bones is ludicrous, and the fact they yielded numbers is meaningless,"
(Excerpt) Read more at worldbydesign.org ...
Life's getting bad when I can see this headline and think it's a Page Six entertainment story about some rapper and a all-girl band. (At least, my mind went to all-girl band.)
I don’t understand all the fuss about how old the earth is,
ie 6000 years or possibly millions. A particular reading of the scriptures suggests one view, but we cannot be sure of the interpretation that leads to this result.
On the otherhand, if it can be shown beyond dispute that the earth is x million years old, we revise our interpretation.
The important Questions is, Did we humans (human race) all descend from a single set of parents?
AND on this question ALL EVIDENCE POINTS TO THE AFFIRMATIVE.
A SINGLE SET OF PARENTS
I’ve dated a few carbon dinosaurs, but then I’m no spring chicken myself.
There needs to be a law to stop this pimping.
Are you from Salem???? When are the first witch trials scheduled.
From “Darwin’s Ghost,” by Steve Jones.
Page 195; “ We live not a hundred million but four thousand five hundred million years since the Earth was spun from dust and rock around the sun” ... based on moon-rocks that were not subjected to erosive weather found on earth.
More from page 195; “Potassium has a half-life of rather more than a billion years as it breaks down into argon.” “Carbon-14, a radioactive form of the atom upon which life is based - has, in contrast, a half-life of a mere five thousand seven hundred and thirty years. It is made when nitrogen is bombarded by cosmic rays, high in the atmosphere. Plants and animals all pick up traces of carbon-14 , which begins at once to decay. When the animals themselves die, the rare form of the element is no longer replaced and the proportion left is a key to the time of their demise.”
Helen Thomas
You win!
CARBON DATING IS ONLY USEFUL FOR 50 TO 60k YEARS
IT DOES NOT WORK FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS (BECAUSE OF THE RADIOACTIVE HALF-LIFE)
Yours is the most authoritative comment since it’s the loudest of them all.
They don't, EVER based on carbon 14.
Scientists use other elements with million-year half-lives to measure the strata above and below the sedimentary layers containing the fossils. They then have a range in which to place the fossil with a high degree of accuracy.
ML/NJ
Up against the wall m@$(@( f@(#@(@#. We have anonymous accusations that you were carbon dating dinosaur bones. That's a major felony in these parts. Just send out your dog so we can shoot it and we'll toss in a couple concussion grenades and some tear gas to clear out anyone else committing science who is hiding in there.
Wow. Dud post, eh? Embarrassing.
I suppose if they are looking at newly found fossils in a layer surrounded by layers already known and identified, it would make sense to assume a certain age because of the adjacent layers of rock. Some layers of rock are well-known and have been identified all across the globe, like the layers of volcanic ash found coinciding with meteor strikes.
No circular reasoning involved.
Best post yet. LOL
These tests are seriously flawed. If the bones are still organic, they are organic. Organic stuff tends to decay. So... why the bones?
Now that make sense!
***But nothing is older than 6,000 years. Right?****
Years ago NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC had on it’s cover some American Indian tools that were carbon dated to twenty thousand years ago! WOW! 20,000 years!
Then several years later was a small article in their magazine, that the items were really only about two thousand years old. that is an 18,000 year difference.
Wonder how many people still believe the 20,000 year article!
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