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To: VadeRetro
Also, the ICR sharpies omit to mention what they do say when they do offer an explanation. (Hint: ICR would reproduce it in exquisite detail it if it helped them but they don't.)

Skimming again, huh VAde?Why not cease your smoke-blowing and insults and begin providing real discussion?

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From article: "Therefore they mounted a major campaign to discover and eliminate the sources of such contamination. Although they identified and corrected a few relatively minor sources of 14C contamination, there still remained a significant level of 14C—typically about 100 times the ultimate sensitivity of the instrument—in samples that should have been utterly "14C-dead," including many from the deeper levels of the fossil-bearing part of the geological record.2"

76 posted on 09/25/2003 3:45:52 PM PDT by HalfFull
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To: HalfFull
When ICR says there "should" be no modern carbon, they're using their own strawman.

Most of these papers acknowledge that most of the 14C in the samples studied appear to be intrinsic to the samples themselves, and they usually offer no explanation for its origin.

"Usually?" Taking advantage of a hopelessly credulous audience, ICR imputes the lack of explanation as something sinister. And what is the explanation ICR forgot to mention? Was it, "It's because the Earth is really young and Genesis is literally true but we're in a conspiracy to suppress that?"

Most scientists are aware that carbon is a dirt-common and highly reactive element. It gets around.

92 posted on 09/25/2003 3:54:54 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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