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To: InvisibleChurch

LOL... I love this! I think this is the first time I have seen a public exposure of carbon dating. If you didn't know... they have misdated many times and thusly carbon dating is merely a publicly funded joke/fraud. Leftish, I might add. I feel for the folks who see carbon dating as a quasi religion.


2 posted on 02/19/2005 7:39:03 AM PST by momincombatboots (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: momincombatboots

"LOL... I love this! I think this is the first time I have seen a public exposure of carbon dating. If you didn't know... they have misdated many times and thusly carbon dating is merely a publicly funded joke/fraud. Leftish, I might add. I feel for the folks who see carbon dating as a quasi religion."


Good point. I also apply this thinking any time some religious figure is discredited thru either sexual perversion (i.e. Catholic priests), scamming televangelists (just about all of 'em), etc. I feel for the folks who see Christianity as a religion.

[/sarcasm

I.E. The actions of one fool don't discredit the proven works of hundreds of others. Also, your post doesn't mention the validity of radioactive dating methods.


3 posted on 02/19/2005 7:44:37 AM PST by Blzbba (Don't hate the player - hate the game!)
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To: momincombatboots

I tried carbon dating one time, didn't like it though,
she kept leaving graphite smudges on the sofa.


4 posted on 02/19/2005 7:47:31 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: momincombatboots

I heard, not sure this is true, maybe somebody can correct: that, one bad assumption with carbon 14, it assumes the amount of carbon 14 isotopes in the atmosphere today was the same eons ago, it then presumes that the samples that once were living has normal carbon and the carbon 14 that is diffused from the atmosphere, then as the decay proceeds the amount of carbon 14 is reduced, so the ratio of normal to carbon to carbon 14 then determines the age?

But with nobody around to calibrate the atmosphere at the presumed start date then the method is just speculation often used just to bolster somebodies agenda?


6 posted on 02/19/2005 7:57:59 AM PST by seastay
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To: momincombatboots

YEC INTREP


18 posted on 02/19/2005 11:13:37 AM PST by LiteKeeper (Secularization of America is happening)
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