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To: fortheDeclaration
Nice cut and paste; sorry, you got the wrong subject.

We were discussing radiocarbon dating, not radiometric dating. I know a lot about the former, not much about the latter.

Radiocarbon dating shows the earth is far older than 6,000 years. A couple of dozen dates I have done are older than that.

You have yet to show me that the radiocarbon method is incorrect. (And stay away from Answers In Genesis if you want to argue science. They are seriously deficient in that regard.)

109 posted on 05/29/2007 8:41:00 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman
You have yet to show me that the radiocarbon method is incorrect. (And stay away from Answers In Genesis if you want to argue science. They are seriously deficient in that regard.)

You have to show that the dating is indeed accurate.

As for AIG, that is where I found about the real dinosaur bones.

113 posted on 05/29/2007 8:45:07 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (We must beat the Democrats or the country will be ruined! -Abe Lincoln)
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To: Coyoteman

radiocarbon dating n.
a method of estimating the ages of organic materials using the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 (the content of the former decreasing as the content of the latter increases within the organic material over time); tested effectively only to ages of about 3000 years

radiometric dating n.
a method of dating artifacts by the use of measurable, unstable isotope elements, which are known over time to to decay at currently known rates into measurable, stable elements; the difference in content of each element within the artifact in question is used as a ratio to estimate an “age” of the artifact; this process, while often portrayed as accurate and reliable, invariably requires multiple unverifiable assumptions in calculating alleged “ages”—making it highly suspect as a reliable dating method; results often vary widely (“useful” dates retained & published, others ignored), confirming the method’s unreliability.

http://www.trueorigin.org/glossary.asp


118 posted on 05/29/2007 9:03:56 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (We must beat the Democrats or the country will be ruined! -Abe Lincoln)
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To: Coyoteman

The organisms which can be used in radiocarbon dating include charcoal, wood, marine shell, human or animal bone, antler, peat; in fact, most of what contains carbon during its life cycle can be used, assuming it’s preserved in the archaeological record. The farthest back C14 can be used is about 10 half lives, or 57,000 years; the most recent, relatively reliable dates end at the Industrial Revolution, when humankind busied itself messing up the natural quantities of carbon in the atmosphere. Further limitations, such as the prevalence of modern environmental contamination, require that several dates (called a suite) be taken on different associated samples to permit a range of estimated dates.

http://archaeology.about.com/cs/datingtechniques/a/timing_3.htm


121 posted on 05/29/2007 9:24:01 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (We must beat the Democrats or the country will be ruined! -Abe Lincoln)
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