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To: Simon Green
"lived about 99 million years ago"

Could we please examine the dating technique?

What is the confidence level once we get past a million years?

27 posted on 06/16/2018 7:17:31 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: G Larry

[ Could we please examine the dating technique? ]

There’s a date stamped on the back of the neck.


37 posted on 06/16/2018 12:04:54 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: G Larry

“lived about 99 million years ago”
Could we please examine the dating technique?
What is the confidence level once we get past a million years?


Probably from the rock strata and other surrounding fossils - Potassium-argon dating (which even with rough million years inaccuracy still indicates it being still a very long time ago)

“excavated from northern Myanmar”


39 posted on 06/16/2018 6:19:42 PM PDT by elbook
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