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To: The Comedian
700,000 years my carbon married (gave up dating) behind.

If you knew anything about dating, you would now that they do NOT use carbon dating for these time periods.

I call BS. We know now that radioactive decay is not a constant, and seems to be influenced by solar cycles. I'll bet these fluctuations in the isotopic decay rates aren't figured into the age estimate.

OK. Even if you give it a 25% accuracy, it is still closer to 700k years than it is to 6k years.

49 posted on 01/27/2011 2:04:25 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: SeeSac
700,000 years my carbon married (gave up dating) behind.

If you knew anything about dating, you would now that they do NOT use carbon dating for these time periods.

Since I do know anything about dating, you and I will have to assume that my quip was intended for non-idiots as a comedic introduction to the post.

OK. Even if you give it a 25% accuracy, it is still closer to 700k years than it is to 6k years.

Who said anything about 6k years?

I made the statement that this 700k year date estimation is provably unsupportable and cited why.

Now put down the crack pipe, you're making a real fool of yourself.


Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

53 posted on 01/27/2011 2:53:09 PM PST by The Comedian (Stop voting for The Government Party)
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