To: ImaGraftedBranch
The sentences of mine that you cited are applicable to theories of evolution, too. There are lots of ways that evolution might be falsified (or at least shaken to its core); for example, by the discovery of a fossilized skeleton of Homo Sapiens sapiensis that definitively carbon dates to, say, 400 million years ago.
To: snarks_when_bored
Correction: carbon-dating won't work if a fossil is 400 million years old. Strike 'carbon' from the last sentence of my post #64.
To: snarks_when_bored; ImaGraftedBranch
Minor technical point: There is no way you could carbon date anything to an age of 400 million years. The half-life of C-14 is too short to go back that far. There would be an essentially undetectable amount of C-14 left in anything that old. There are other radiometric dating methods capable of going back that far, however, so the main point is still valid.
96 posted on
12/08/2004 6:49:11 AM PST by
stremba
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