The creationoids will have a ball with this. They can add it to their tiny list of fraudulent finds, like Piltdown Man. But it should be noted that the frauds were exposed by scientists, not creationists (who deny the validity of the means used to test the fossils).
well, one of the scientific method's true strengths is its innate tendency towards self-correction through constant re-evaluation.
but, yes, the uber-creationists will have a field day over this.
oh, well: even a stopped clock...
There have been one or two other high profile cases in recent years. There was a young physicist who was on the road to superstardom and got caught pretty quickly (he was German I think, working at Bell Labs), and a veteran Danish ecologist who worked on swallows (I'm not sure how his case turned out in the end). I heard also that that guy Lomborg, the author of that book The Skeptical Environmentalist, was having one or two problems in this area in his native Denmark.
They only accept Carbon dating if it proves scientists wrong. Of course, creationists ignore the fact they don't do any science and could not find something wrong if their lives depended on it.
Yet, they know enough to know that all of biology is wrong.
It gives cognitive dissonance new frontiers.
"The creationoids will have a ball with this. They can add it to their tiny list of fraudulent finds, like Piltdown Man. But it should be noted that the frauds were exposed by scientists, not creationists (who deny the validity of the means used to test the fossils)."
Applying the creationoid standard to Christianity means that every digraced pervert priest, every adulterating, money-laundering televangelist, and every action of fringe Christian cults only mean that Christianity is itself a farce.
This German scholar has dragged out a huge problem. They are now going to have step back and redate every piece of history that he ever touched. This process...could take well over five years. And the cost...just a guess...but I'd be figuring well over $10 million.
And the million dollar question...who else has been doing this? And could the environmentalists with climate models be in the same group?
The list may be small, but it's what this "tiny" list claimed to be true, turned the world upside down and continued to perpetuate an agenda.
Heck, the evolutionist are getting as bad as the early church selling trinkets to the faithful to believe
But just for the record, you are the twit that opened that can of worms and ruined a good thread.
Not all those who believe in creation deny carbon dating methods, or believe the world is 10,000 years old.
Not the means: the conclusions.....