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#462554
TheLee
Carbon 14 does not date rocks... it dates organic material... you know, stuff with Carbon in it. It isn't used to date anything older than ~50k years old. There are other types of radiometric dating for older stuff.
So what did the fossils have to do with the great flood? He throws that out and goes nowhere with it.
4/11/2008 10:38:37 PM
#462574
GigaGuess
No, there was nobody alive 4,000 yrs ago who is still alive today.
So...who's corroborating your account, then?
4/11/2008 10:51:03 PM
#704959
Shadoboy
Yes, there is no people alive from so many thousands of years ago. So they can't prove the global flood either.
10/2/2008 2:36:00 AM
#705021
Tired Christian
I find it sad that I know more about carbon dating that this person (a 31 yr old 'politician' according to their profile), and I haven't yet left high school.
Added bonus: Their profile has the following: "Gender Not Set"
10/2/2008 3:46:42 AM
#705025
Cthulhuigi
How is a untestable hypothesis a theory? :[
10/2/2008 3:50:23 AM
#705083
Michael
Carbon 14 dates organic materials, not rocks.
http://geology.wr.usgs.gov/parks/gtime/radiom.html
But since your scientific "abilities" do not seem more than being able to add hot water to your coffee, it is pointless arguing with you.
Your "theories" like your bible, are based on the ramblings of semi-literate goat sodomisers which was where your stories and legends originated.
My profession of approaching 57 years, is translating the texts and symbols from where your fucking bible comes from.u
Pretending to have scientific knowledge only highlights your crass stupidity.
10/2/2008 6:59:29 AM
#1093261
It's not. It's based on the rate of decay of Carbon 14, something which is observable. There are plenty of other methods that can be used to verify the date given by carbon dating. Also, there's no one alive now who was alive 200 years ago, so who's to say that the world isn't actually only 200 years old? Oh, right, lots and lots of evidence.
1/12/2010 5:00:04 PM
#1206148
Enigma32
Beautiful! You've successfully debunked Carbon-14 dating. Wow, you guys are, like, fuckin' geniuses and shit.
Now tell me how you debunk uranium-lead dating - the oldest, most refined, and most accurate of the dating mechanisms with a range of 1 million years ago to 4.5 billion.
Go ahead. I'll wait.
9/12/2010 8:12:03 AM
#1206150
Justanotheratheist
"Remember the Great Flood?"
No.
"In my opinion, no Ice Age."
In the opinion of sane people with the evidence to back it up, no Great Flood.
As for Job seeing a dragon, he was either stoned on magic mushrooms or what he wrote has been so mangled in subsequent translations (remember, dickhead, that not one word of the Bible was written in English) that what it says now is a country mile from what he wrote.
Nor have there been dinosaurs alive within the last 4000 years, or even the last 40 million for that matter. We have the fossils, you have a shitty book.
We win.
9/12/2010 8:19:01 AM
#1206157
Swede
There are trees that are several hundred years old. By following the growth rings of fossilized trees you can get up to about 12 000 years ago. By comparing carbon-dating to growth ring dating (dendrochronology) you can ascertain that your dating is fairly accurate. There are other methods as well; if they all add up, they are probably more or less correct.
Water covering land for a few month did the same as glaciers moving over land for centuries? Yeah, right! Are you aware that parts of Sweden are still rising out of the sea? The pressure during the last ice age pushed most of the land south of Stockholm below sea-level.
Stories and legends came from people wanting to overshadow each other by the campfire.
9/12/2010 8:32:41 AM
#1206169
Philbert McAdamia
When you can go back in time and get proof that the rock was made 4,000 yrs. ago, then you can call it concrete evidence.
*snicker*
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@ Swede
Stories and legends came from people wanting to overshadow each other by the campfire.
Sort of like The Liars' Club, isn't it?
9/12/2010 9:24:55 AM
#1206172
"The stories and legends have to start from somewhere."
Yes they did. ALL stories and legends began somewhere and most are the product of imagination
9/12/2010 9:31:53 AM
#1266448
Quantum Mechanic
I didn't need to finish the first sentence to see you don't have a clue what you are babbling about.
3/13/2011 1:31:17 PM
#1266457
Philbert McAdamia
@ Swede
Stories and legends came from people wanting to overshadow each other by the campfire.
OK, now I picture them telling their urban bucolic legends holding an Aladin lamp or a candle under the chin to make the spooky face (and a brush fire haha).
Abdul, face on fire: "Holy shishkebab!!!"
Other campers: "Lo, the burning bush speaketh."
3/13/2011 1:44:44 PM
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