[RightWhale]

the basic limitations of radiocarbon dating

C-14 half-life 5730 years. Assuming the carbon they used was organic to begin with and the special circumstances were correctly accounted for, they got a reasonable result and included the error range. Ordinary science within the accepted radio carbon range of 50,000 years..

[medved]

radiocarbon dating absolutely assumes that the ratios of the various kinds of carbon in the air have always been what they are now. Even one global ccatastrophe such as the deluge at the time of Noah, and there have been several such within the last ten thousand years, and all such assumptions go straight out the window.