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Your abject ignorance is showing. Carbon dating has an upper limit of about 50,000 years. It is not used to date fossils or the age of the earth. Why don't you actually learn some science before you go trashing it? You only make yourself look silly with these posts that are so laughably wrong.

I admit I used carbon dating as a catch all term, but it changes nothing. Dating ancient, earth materials isn't an accurate science, so I'm not trashing accurate science when I speak of it. It is not possible to date ancient earth or fossils accurately at this time. There are too many variables that we do not understand. Most, if not all, ancient earth dating is questionable at best. Especially in time periods over thousands of years. Saying the earth is whatever billion years old is a mockery of accurate science. We simply do not know and to say otherwise is faith.

Dating ancient, earth materials isn't an accurate science, so I'm not trashing accurate science when I speak of it. It is not possible to date ancient earth or fossils accurately at this time. There are too many variables that we do not understand. Most, if not all, ancient earth dating is questionable at best. Especially in time periods over thousands of years. Saying the earth is whatever billion years old is a mockery of accurate science. We simply do not know and to say otherwise is faith.

Why is it that scientists have no problems with these dating methods, knowing all of the assumptions and qualifications that are a part of each particular method?

Why is it only young earth creationists who can't accept the dates and the methods that are used? The answer is clear: it is for reasons based on religious belief, not on the scientific merits or potential pitfalls in any specific dating method.

But if you have any legitimate questions on carbon 14 dating let me know. I use that method of dating a lot, and have both written and lectured on it. I would be glad to help you understand it if you have real questions.