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To: Dimensio
Again, an aquatic creature. Yes, it's a mammal, but it spends quite a bit of its life in the ocean and its primary diet is seafood. Once again, C14 dating isn't used on such life forms, and it is incredibly dishonest of you to use the fact that a C14-derived "age" for an organism that scientists already know fits a standard for life forms not testable with C14....

Curious, do you know why?

635 posted on 02/23/2005 4:18:07 AM PST by Bellflower (A new day is Coming!)
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To: Bellflower
C14 dating only works if you know that the organism got its C14 from the atmosphere, not from groundwater or some other source. Ocean-dwelling creatures (and more land-based creatures that have a diet high in seafod) will end up getting C14 from their aquatic environment, which will give you totally wrong results if you're assuming that it all came from the environment.

C14 dating is admittedly very limited. It's easy to throw off, and only has a usable range of around 50,000 years. That's why most fossils aren't dated with it, but its weaknesses make for good strawman creationist arguments from those who pretend that there aren't any other dating methods out there.
662 posted on 02/23/2005 10:07:26 AM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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