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To: Prime Choice

I was under the impression carbon dating isn't reliable past 50,000 years or so.


19 posted on 09/30/2005 9:25:11 AM PDT by mlc9852
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To: mlc9852
I was under the impression carbon dating isn't reliable past 50,000 years or so.

That's why I said coupled with at what level in the strata the amber was discovered.

27 posted on 09/30/2005 9:28:17 AM PDT by Prime Choice (E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
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You were right. It also doesn't work on things that are too young. Live clams have been dating as having been dead for years. So basically, the whole dating system is crap.


41 posted on 09/30/2005 9:41:48 AM PDT by Tim Long (No, Christine Todd Whitman, it's not your party too.)
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