WHOA.. Whoa Whoa!!! Am I understanding this right????Religionist believe that...?

Question

Humans and Dinosaurs coexisted!! Or the only thing that seperates them is a couple of years??? YOu have got to be kidding me. So what is Carbon Dating??? Something that evil scienctist made up?? I wasn't aware of this..Okay, so, what is the excuse on Carbon Dating then? I mean ,.,, what is the supposive flaw with Carbon Dating??

When I say religionist..I am try not trying to call out anybody specifically.. That is all.. I might may not have been politically correct by using "religionist" but you know what I mean, I am trying to keep it in general.

Okay,, so if carbon dating is flawed. I have never heard of a time that a persons bones were ever dated back to when Dinosaurs bones were dated.. Or has this happened?? if it this is so. please send me link.. And excuse my ignorance on the matter.

Answer 1

nice to see you are so open to differing viewpoints.

"Religionist" is an interesting term. Is that your word for "Christian"? Because not everyone who is religious believes in the Biblical account of Creation.

Anywho, you bring up an interesting question about carbon dating: and there is actually a flaw, though its not supposive. Any archaelogical scientist (that includes the non-religious ones too) will tell you that after about two thousand years or so the accuracy of carbon dating breaks down. What I mean is that if something died within the last two thousand years, carbon dating will peg its specific death date pretty well. But after that, the chemical nature of carbon becomes unstable, and carbon dating isn't all that good. Let's say, for instance, that something died oh 8 thousand years ago. Well, carbon dating wouldn't be accurate enough to say "8 thousand years", it would only be able to say it died within 4-10 thousand. You see?

Answer 2

Carbon dating is only good up to 4000 years !!!

In Glen Rose Texas footprints of dinosaurs and man were found together in the same strata and all the disbelievers poo pooed the data, So the finders of this find dug up the foot print and and cut a cross section and actually saw the compression strain in the cross section. So you or nobody else heard about this !!! So much for an unbiased news media !!!

Answer 3

Do you think there are horses here?

hee hee)

The flaw with carbon dating is this: It works on bone, on organic matter of all sorts. Does not work on stone. (They could not determine the age of the stones at Stonehenge for instance, but they could on the antler used as a digging tool found at the site)

Fossils are not bone anymore (they once were) They are stone, and therefore carbon dating does not work on them. The age of the fossil is usually determined by the probable age of the layer of sediment in which it was found.

Please excuse my lesser-well-read brothers and sisters in Christ who have confused and disappointed you. I pray that in their walk with the Lord, He explain things a tad more clearly. Amen, and thank you for your patience in this matter.

Answer 4

Yes, "religionists" believe that...well if they are completely faithful with their book.

My "excuse" on carbon dating is that it works, just that it does no have the proper code, or formula for correct dating.

PS, I believe that the earth is less than 1 million years old. But I am open to believe it is older. The only thing we have to know to find out how old the earth is, is how many years make up a day in God's time.

Answer 5

Stephen,
There are a number of FLAWS with Carbon Dating. It has been adequately proven but you need to research it and see for yourself. Grab a pencil or a mouse and get started. I used a Yahoo Search at http://search.yahoo.com/search?search=carbon+dating+flaws&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&ico-yahoo-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAmUKxVeWpM0jZoBJSnnIPpwazKIX%2FSIG%3D11ijtilt4%2FEXP%3D1182831539%2F*-http%253A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&ico-wikipedia-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAsLsyysV7lUgbVFbn_uezmcazKIX%2FSIG%3D121g0eq5q%2FEXP%3D1182831539%2F*-http%253A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%253aSearch&p=carbon+dating+flaws
There are a number of sites. I only listed a few below so that you could begin your study. If YOU will do so, you should find that it is definitely flawed. Have a wonderful week.
Thanks,
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Thanks for your writing "the.chip". It is the quickest and probably the best explanation that this questioner will get.

I guess the best answer that I have seen so far comes from friendshipband@ below. He seems to have it in hand. Good work young'un!

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Answer 6

Some "Religionists" think that. While other "Religionists" believe that all life originated from a magical pool of ooze. We get all kinds here.

Answer 7

Oh just wait until you see the stuff about Mt. Saint Helens proving carbon dating wrong when all science has proven their theory about it being wrong is idiotic and factually insignificant.

Remember Christians, science has no answers, but goes searching for them. When religion uses science to make its point, they START with an answer and go about proving it, which is not how science works. Faulty science, yes... REAL science, no.

Answer 8

They used the carbon dating method to test some scrapings from a live turtles shell and according to the carbon dating the shell was millions of years old. (so much for carbon dating)

Answer 9

what's carbon dating?

Answer 10

deopends what religion. in Islam, there is no indication that humans existed before or with dinosaurs. it doesn't say anywhere when humans were created. God created the Earth and He may have created other creatures before humans.