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2007-08-27 08:26:59 · 3 answers · asked by Max the Movie Maniac 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
About 44,000 years...
2007-08-27 09:04:55 · answer #1 · answered by outcrop 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most fossils are assumed to be too old to use Carbon 14 for dating. Now some Late Pleistocene mammals could be dated. The ratio in the atmosphere is assumed to be the same as today. It has gone through 3 half lives, since half life of Carbon 14 is about 5730 years it would be about 17190 years old.
Now it is true that dinosaur bones have been Carbon 14 dated, and they come out about 30 to 40 thousand years old. This information has been suppressed by the evolutionary establishment. If they were millions of years old there should be no carbon to date, because Carbon 14 should be totally gone in about 50 thousand years. But Carbon 14 has been found throughout the fossil record producing similar dates.
2007-08-27 16:15:21 · answer #2 · answered by Jeremy Auldaney 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Jeremy got the right answer but his story about C14 dating dinosaurs was not correct. You cannot use C14 to date dinosaur bones. First, you couldn't find any carbon that could be attributed to the dinosaur.
2007-08-27 16:18:36 · answer #3 · answered by JimZ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋