I'm not a scientific person, so I won't understand difficult scientific terms. I heard that carbon dating is not accurate when something has been saturated in water for some time. If that is true how can we say that our world is billions of years old?
2007-02-21 02:29:03 · 3 answers · asked by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Carbon dating is used for objects that were once alive that are more than 2-300 years old and less than 50,000 years old. Water does not negate the process if the dating method is used correctly. Carbon dating has nothing to say about the age of the Earth because it dates relatively young things.
The accuracy of carbon dating has been checked many times using both dendrochronology - tree ring dating - which is accurate to about 11,000 years ago, and known historical events such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeii.
If you are interested in how the age of the earth is determined, there is a very good paper about it here:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-age-of-earth.html
2007-02-21 08:35:27 · answer #1 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the pressure and the time of saturation. A lot of water affects carbon dating.
2015-06-01 11:14:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we carbon date the dry parts
2007-02-21 02:32:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋