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To: Michael_Michaelangelo
They found grapevines over two inches think in the area, of which the DNA from the grapes is the oldest known to man.

Okay, I'll bite -- what in the heck does "oldest DNA known to man" mean, and how do you "date" DNA?

I'm familiar with a very large number of dating methods, as well as multiple analytical techniques to extract various kinds of information from DNA, but this just sounds like total mumbo-jumbo.

94 posted on 06/15/2006 8:12:27 PM PDT by Ichneumon (Ignorance is curable, but the afflicted has to want to be cured.)
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To: Ichneumon
..., and how do you "date" DNA? ...

You start by finding 29 dimensions of similarity.

105 posted on 06/15/2006 9:52:40 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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