[Elsie]

I>Second, great care must be taken in collecting and packing samples to avoid contamination by more recent carbon.

It's THIS reason:

The clam MUST HAVE eaten some REALLY old stuff (to help digest it's food, perhaps) and THAT is what is creating the false date........

[Dataman]

They always have a "reason" -- always an excuse; the same presuppositions that allow for darwinism also allow for lying, cheating, shooting the messenger, and other Machiavellian quirks like disallowing contrary evidence.