A question to Atheists?

Question

Listen whenever I Argue with these Christians, that Ancient Human Bones of Humans Are found, they respond thatRadio Carbon Dating is Flawed they Even Dont believe in the Dinosaurs.
So is the Radio Carbon Dating a Flawed Procedure ?
Please Substansiate your answer with Certain Scientific facts which are as Clear as Sunlight and Blow these Christians Myths to Smitherines.

Answer 1

The short answer is: no, Carbon-14 dating is quite accurate.

But theists have too much of their ego and worldview riding on the notion that (A) they are the pinnacle of all creation; (B) the entire universe was created for their benefit; and (C) out of a universe of a billion trillion stars, the goings-on of a bunch of talking monkeys of this one little piss-ant planet is the primary concern of an infinitely wise and powerful being....NO amount of evidence is likely to be enough to convince them to give up their little fantasy.

Answer 2

Carbon dating aside we don't know where the bones come from or what they do. They found dog bones in skeltons at musems of dinosaurs.

What every happened to the Brontosaurus by the way. I was raised on that, along with Pluto being a planet.

Science can't make up it's mind so how is it going to convience anyone of anything!

Religion stays the same.

Science pulls from religion and religion foresees science.

The Big Bang is Genesis

God's plan is the genome and DNA

That genome has the approximate if not actual date of YOUR DEATH

That genome is what makes all your body parts work and when things run out organs shut down

That genome says the date you'll get your first gray hair

You're whole life's cycle is right there in that genome

Soon we'll be creating life with DNA and chemicals.

Being GOD.

Wonder if those creation with write books and say prayers to the scientists who created them!

God is inspriational and instructive

Gases and microbes from the Earth were used to make man.

God's breath and dirt

Science may learn from that

Jesus restored life in the dead with a touch

Now we have CPR

JEsus said we could do everything he did

One day man may master walking on water

What keeps us from doing these things, as we all have God's power, except we are finite not infinite is small thinking

Both Theists and Atheists think too small.

That something, like it or not, they share in common.

Small thinking

Narrow thinking

Each thinking the other is wrong instead of joing forces to explore our potential

Science says everything is made up of atoms. Charged partcles. You are a bunch of electrical charges. Something that flies free in the Aether.

Spirit, if you will.

A bunch of self aware protons, neutrons and electrons.

There's nothing different of your substance than the air around you, except the complexity and density of those charged particle.

Man is both corporeal and sub atomic at the same time.

Sprit and body.

Answer 3

No it's not flawed.

The first thing, which applies to all the Creatonist propaganda, is that scientists are extremely critical - if there was a problem with carbon dating (or the the other 'problems' creationists identify), scientists (and I mean real scientists not creation 'scientists') would be falling over themselves to publish it. Careers are made by demolishing theories. It's easier than coming up with new ones.

Secondly, radioactive isotopes decay at a LOGARITHMIC rate. This is important as the decay of Carbon14 to Carbon12 isn't the only form of radiometric dating. A whole variety of different isotopes are used, with different half lifes: Argon-Argon, Potassium-Argon, Uranium-Lead, Uranium-Thorium, Uranium-Uranium, and many others. For a given sample, all the different LOGARITHMIC curves, from isotopes with suitable half-lives to be used, converge on the same age. This would be mathematically impossible if there was a simple error in our half-life estimates.

Thirdly, carbon dating is calibrated by tree-ring data, and has been tested on numerous historical items for which the age is known.

Creationists love to cite examples where carbon dating produced erroneous results, due to misuse (usually clear contamination), as if this somehow disproves all the 1000's and 1000's of correct results by people who knew what they were doing.

To have selectively mined these errors out is simple deception. Somewhere along the line someone is "lying for god" and those who want to believe them are lapping it up. Interestingly Zechariah 13:3 says that those who lie in the name of God should be killed by their families. Fortunate that Fundamentalist Christians don't take THAT verse literally.

Answer 4

Most extremists will argue that radiocarbon dating isn't acurate past 6000 years, therefore it can't be used to determine if something is older than 6000 years. This is only half true as radiocarbon or carbon-14 has a half-life of 5730 years (which is where the 6000 years comes from) but it is still accurate to a limit of around 58000 years.

The rate of creation of carbon-14 appears to be roughly constant, as cross-checks of carbon-14 dating with other dating methods show it gives consistent results.

There are other radioactive materials that are used for radiometric dating - for more information see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating

For more on the constant, pridictable rate of decay in radioactive materials, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_decay

Answer 5

Carbon dating although the best we have at this point is of course somewhat flawed. It cannot as of yet pinpoint to a certainty the exact date which of course all of us would really love. As far as the Christian forces out there, you have to just ignore the communication because they are not free thinking. They are limited to what they can believe by a book that was written by a bunch of guys a couple millinia ago and they revised and edited a few hundred years ago. They are not allowed to think outside the book. Don't expect them to and you'll get thru it.

Answer 6

OK - I'm a Christian so bare with me please. I only know that on the discovery channel I saw a program that raised questions about the validity of carbon dating. But, I do believe in dinosaur because I found one (the bones) not long ago myself. Dino sours are way cool!! There are some theories that the dinosaurs were actually in the material that God used to create the earth. I like to ponder that one but it makes me sad to think that the dinosaurs would not have been roaming this planet.

Answer 7

Unfortunately, it's impossible to explain in a manner clear as sunlight. As soon as you give a simplistic answer, like carbon dating has been calibrated with tree rings going back for 4,000 years and then extended further with extrapolation, they give you a link to a scientist that claims to have found a flaw.

Then you have to go deeper into the underlying science of K-Ar dating, Uranium dating, etc... and next thing you know, you are talking theoretical physics.

Answer 8

I really can't. Maybe someone with more education then me could. I think the reality is there are two kinds of mentalities here,

1. That is wrong cause of (insert religious book here),

or,

2. The problem with that theory is this, based on this scientific things here a b and c,

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With the carbon dating, all scientific objections should be directed to the people trained in it, I'm not trained in it.

Answer 9

Carbon Dating procedures are not 100% accurate no. However, they offer us no evidence to the contrary other than what some guy wrote down in a book.... therefore you have to go with the evidence at hand.

Answer 10

Sure, radio carbon dating can be flawed. I do not know all the science behind it. But it at least appears to be damn close to actual ages, in my opinion. Do I think the world is 6000 years old? No way.