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To: NormsRevenge

68 million-year-old huh? How can that be when their process of telling the age of something is so acurate that tested on a live elephant to be 3000 years old?


9 posted on 04/14/2007 10:36:22 PM PDT by garylmoore (Faith is the assurance of things unseen.)
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The tests are coarse-grained. Depending on the quality and amount of the sample and how much time is spent on testing, the results are accurate to within anywhere from thousands to tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years. Perhaps not meaningful for evaluating recent history, but invaluable for reconstructing time lines and lineages spanning eons.
19 posted on 04/14/2007 10:57:19 PM PDT by CountryBumpkin (Wanted: Belly busting good laughs. Seeking liberals with opinions.)
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To: garylmoore
How can that be when their process of telling the age of something is so acurate that tested on a live elephant to be 3000 years old?

You have a source?

21 posted on 04/14/2007 10:58:22 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (btw..Rudy can untie the COUNTRY, not just our precious party... --- ChiTownBearFan 04/10/2007)
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To: garylmoore
68 million-year-old huh? How can that be when their process of telling the age of something is so acurate that tested on a live elephant to be 3000 years old?

Dinosaur bones and other fossils are dated by several methods of radiometric dating.

Living things, and once living things, up to an age of about 50,000 years, are dated by radiocarbon dating.

Do you have a citation for the radiocarbon date of 3,000 years for a living elephant?

42 posted on 04/15/2007 8:17:01 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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