[SunkenCiv]

Wiggle room. The radiocarbon calibration curve now extends to 50,000 years and is more accurate. Credit: P. J. Reimer et al. Radiocarbon, 51 (2009)

[SunkenCiv]

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[null and void]

Most experts consider the technical limit of radiocarbon dating to be about 50,000 years, after which there is too little carbon-14 left to measure accurately.

A little factoid ignored by creationists who blandly assert that samples 500 MY and 1 MY old (as dated by those evil evolutionists) have identical carbon 14 dates and are therefore the same age. Thus "proving" that all non-Biblical dating methods are false.

When deliberately misrepresenting carbon 14 dating creationists insist it's accurate, if so doing "proves" a young earth.

Otherwise, when C14 dates are used within their useful range had show dates older than 6014 years, C14 dating is inaccurate.

Amazing when this level of intelectual dishonesty is found in someone other than a liberal...

[count-your-change]

Recalibrated guesses? I'm impressed.

[wendy1946]

RC dating totally depends on the idea that the present ratios of carbon types in the air have held good from the time in question to now. Thinking that ratio would be the same prior to something like the great flood is a very large act of faith.