Third in the series- if a human victims bones can be accurately dated for age, then logically, so can Earth?

Question

So if you are a cop and you find the bones of a murder victim, and forensics tells you that the body had been killed over 35 years ago.. or 300 years ago.. then this same method of finding the age (dating) is a logical and precise way to determine the age of the earth, correct?
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Answer 1

can you get to the point? I can see where you are going with this. So let's cut to the chase. It has been shown that the carbon dating has determined that sea creatures existed before land mammals came along.

Now I believe there is a supreme being. But the Bible is a hard story to swallow.

So the question for YOU is: The Bible says that man was created in God's image. What is that image? We know that creatures came from the sea before living on land. What's to say that God is not a supreme one cell organism that started this all?

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The earth is VERY old. That said there is no way to test for the actual age of the earth through carbon dating. Some rock on the earth are very young, some are very old. But with the upheaval of plate tectonics rock could have been recycled many times. Science says it's what 300- 500 billion years old.. That sounds ok to me but it could be even older than that... Tallerfellow Think we must have the same physical appearance as God for the Bible to be true. He's wrong. God is a triune being of spirit. Man is a triune being. Body Mind and Spirit... All three are required to be human.... Jim

Answer 4

No, the same method can't be used on rock as is used for part of a formerly living creature, as the dating methods depend on some facts about living things. (While you're alive, you have a certain ratio of two isotopes of carbon. As soon as you die, the unstable one begins to break down, changing that ratio. When it's all gone, the method can't specify how long it has been gone. Rocks do not have this stuff going on in them, as they aren't living things.)

As for determining the earth's age, they believe they have a pretty good estimate, so your presupposition that they haven't dated the Earth is questionable.

The Earth is a fluid, dynamic thing. Rock is continually being recycled -- being buried, melted, and coming back to the surface.

If you are really interested in understanding this stuff, UC Berkeley has a great website, which I will give in the Source field. You could go there and find out about dating dinosaurs, Earth's age, and pages that address common misconceptions about evolution -- among many, many other things.

Answer 5

To determine the age of a body they look at the teeth (first), depending on the age. If it is a younger child they look at joints and other places to see how much growing has been done to ESTIMATE the age. Since the Earth doesn't have joints or teeth this process can not be used. As far as time of death goes, bones do not decay. Fabric, soft tissue, muscles, etc do. So they use that to estimate.
However there is carbon dating (which is debatable). This is used to date other things. But the answer to your question is incorrect. The same process

Answer 6

Yes, the earth can be dated.

Based on extensive and detailed scientific evidence, geologists have determined the age of the Earth to be around 4.567 billion years (4.567x109 years). This age represents a compromise between the oldest-known terrestrial minerals – small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia – and astronomers' and planetologists' determinations of the age of the solar system based in part on radiometric age dating of meteorite material and lunar samples.

Answer 7

Not exactly. We can date human bones using carbon dating. But that only is accurate to only about 50,000 years. We have other ways of obtaining dates. We can, for instance, use ice core samples which go back tens of thousands of years. But for rocks or for the universe itself we have a number of other methods that all pretty much agree and have undergone considerable testing and verification.
Here's a place that discusses some of it:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/dating.html

Answer 8

The New York Times of June 10, under the headline “Age of Cave Man Is Cut 35,000 Years”, reported their belief that “the ancestors of modern man in Europe are perhaps 35,000 years younger than has been previously believed”, that “new study indicates that the cave man was extinct in Europe by the year 13,000 B.C.” This slash in the cave man’s age, from 50,000 years to 15,000 years, was forced by the newly developed radiocarbon clock. It was the advent of this clock that caused the Chicago Sun-Times of May 27, 1951, to report that evolutionists had cut the age of modern man from 1,000,000 years to 50,000 years. Science shaves the figure ever nearer to the Bible’s 6,000-year age for man. That the present carbon clock figures may not be final was recognized by the symposium, for the Times reported: “Carbon dating techniques may be subject to revision later if differences in the natural rate of formation of the radioactive isotope can be detected or if anomalies in the rate of carbon utilization by growing materials are discovered, it was suggested.” So at this point in time, nothing can be accurately dated for age.

Answer 9

Yes, one method of determining the age of ancient artifacts and organic matter found in sediment layers in the earth is through carbon dating.

Answer 10

The first literal man in the Bible is Abraham.

The story of Adam and Eve and Noah were not written by Moses but were existing scripture that Moses had in his possession. Complicated yes but not impossible to understand especially when Swedenborg goes over the law of correspondences.