[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...

[RushingWater]

WHAT are you saying? And yeah, I am one of those that remains unconvinced the world is over 6,000 years old.

[RushingWater]

WHAT are you saying? And yeah, I am one of those that remains unconvinced the world is over 6,000 years old.

[muawiyah]

Look here, the Leftwingtards are just foolin' ~ they're all Young Earthers with only a passing interest in science, and no interest whatsoever in mathematics.

Take the Democrats in Massachusetts ~ they've got Harvard and MIT, and whole buildings full of medical researchers, scientists, etc. So what is it they believe? Well, that America was created the day Teddy Kennedy took office.

Such stupidity has its own reward ~ as they'll discover tomorrow!

[SunkenCiv]

"...misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent." -- Goethe , "The Sorrows of Young Werther" (1774)

more often phrased this way:

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. -- Robert J. Hanlon, "Murphy's Law Book Two, More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong" (1980)

and I had thought it was from Mark Twain. When I looked for the exact wording, I found the wiki-wacky-pedia page, which noted that it was also said this way, and earlier:

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. -- Robert A. Heinlein, "Logic of Empire" (1941)

and for that matter, this one:

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. -- attributed to Napoleon (18th c)

This other version is too weird not to mention:

Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory. -- Sir Bernard Ingham