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To: ElkGroveDan

I'm actually cutting you a break since carbon 14 dating isn't exactly flawless.

Silly one ... . You defend something that is extremely faulty. It doesn't matter how many people still use it.


23 posted on 08/18/2004 9:43:05 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: nmh

To calculate the radiocarbon age of a specimen, we need to compare the carbon-12/carbon-14 ratio now, with the carbon-12/carbon-14 ratio at the time of death. However, we do not know the ratio at the time of death, which means we have to make an assumption. Modern radiocarbon dating assumes that the carbon-14/carbon-12 ratio in living organisms is the same now as it was in ancient organisms before they died. In other words, the system of carbon-14 production and decay is said to be in a state of balance or equilibrium. Yet this assumption is questionable, even for an old Earth.

http://www.apologeticspress.org/defdocs/rr1993/r&r9310a.htm


24 posted on 08/18/2004 10:00:29 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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