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To: Ichneumon
Evidence and testing? You mean carbon dating or guessing age based upon layers of material.. Carbon dating is a technical way of guessing age because the assumed constant is not constant nor is the variable proveable over time as to what it has been at any given time. Nor does it consider saturation or contamination properly, it is impossible to know these things, thus rendering it a couple of guesses plugged into an equation rendering the outcome a processed guess. Layer dating isn't much more complicated nor is it any more accurate. Doesn't hurt my worldview; but, it really peaves some of you zealots.
174 posted on 01/08/2004 2:35:44 PM PST by Havoc ("Alright; but, that only counts as one..")
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To: Havoc
Evidence and testing?

Yes. Surely you've heard of it.

You mean carbon dating or guessing age based upon layers of material..

That and far, far more.

Carbon dating is a technical way of guessing age because the assumed constant is not constant

Carbon dating does not "assume a constant". Make sure you understand it before you try to critique it.

nor is the variable proveable over time as to what it has been at any given time.

Ooookay. Can I have that again with a specific noun?

Nor does it consider saturation or contamination properly,

It does, actually. Check nearly any issue of the journal _Radiocarbon_.

it is impossible to know these things, thus rendering it a couple of guesses plugged into an equation rendering the outcome a processed guess.

No. Try again.

Layer dating isn't much more complicated nor is it any more accurate. Doesn't hurt my worldview; but, it really peaves some of you zealots.

The only thing that "peeves" some of us non-zealots is when people of unspecified zealotry demonstrate that they know little about a subject, and much of what they do know is incorrect, but they still feel qualified to declare the subject nonsense and all the people who *do* know much about it must be idiots or liars.

And you've failed to explain what is allegedly "wrong" with the 100+ other independent lines of evidence. Carbon-dating and stratification are minor players in the vast mountain of evidence for the age of Earth and various things in it, and the biological evolution of the life thereon.

189 posted on 01/08/2004 3:06:24 PM PST by Ichneumon
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