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To: adiaireton8
How exactly would you prove that the world wasn't created yesterday?

Carbon dating?

281 posted on 12/22/2005 12:35:15 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (Karen Ryan reporting...)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
b>How exactly would you prove that the world wasn't created yesterday?

Carbon dating?

Carbon dating has trouble with extremely young samples because of the effects of the atomic testing.

Also the range (± or plus/minus if the symbol does not come through collectly) can eat you up quickly. The date is usually figured at two sigma or twice the range in either direction; thus a date of 100 ± 50 has a range of 200 years at the two sigma (95% confidence) level. Once you get a few hundred years old, or if you run lots of samples, this can be less of a problem.

317 posted on 12/22/2005 4:54:35 PM PST by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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