[Ichneumon]

the various inaccuracies such as "They cite radiocarbon dating to show that Earth is billions of years old, not a few thousand years old, as some creationists would have it" leads me to believe the nytimes published this to make the nytimes look bad.

Sheesh. As the old saying goes, "the first requirement of dog training is to make sure that you know more than the dog"...

[spinestein]

[the various inaccuracies such as "They cite radiocarbon dating to show that Earth is billions of years old, not a few thousand years old...]



Anyone with a background in physics (or any other science) can read ANY science or technology story disseminated by the standard media outlets and just laugh and laugh and laugh at the gross misunderstandings journalists have about the subject.

Even the "science correspondents" are horribly incompetent at reporting science.