To: PatrickHenry
As someone pointed out, the author doesn't quite understand radiocarbon dating. FWIW, Google tells me that the author is the science editor of the NYT. It's your call, but "goofy" seems to capture it pretty well :)
18 posted on
07/06/2005 7:41:51 PM PDT by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: general_re
[As someone pointed out, the author doesn't quite understand radiocarbon dating. FWIW, Google tells me that the author is the science editor of the NYT.]
An even more incompetent boob is Ira Flatow from NPR's "Science Friday". He's supposed to be their science guru, but the questions he typically asks his guests reveal his ignorance about the products and findings of science as well as the methods of science.
20 posted on
07/06/2005 7:47:43 PM PDT by
spinestein
(The facts fairly and honestly presented, truth will take care of itself.)
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