im posting this before i fall over lauging from another creationist dinosaur answer...
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2007-12-12 07:23:01 · 25 answers · asked by Adam (AM) 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
catholic crusader: its 99.99% accurate....
2007-12-12 07:27:42 · update #1
Creationists: seriousely, can it! bloody hell you lot do go on!
2007-12-12 07:35:27 · update #2
creationists ignore anything they can't understand.
math, physics, chemistry, words, stop-signs, the bible ...
washing instructions, sell-by dates, dvd region-codes ...
2007-12-12 07:27:24 · answer #1 · answered by synopsis 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
The radioactive decay of carbon 14 is quite reliable, it decays with clocklike precision. The basic issue is that the older an organic material--tthe less C-14 there is to measure--the error bars become greater. Is why dating is done in triplicate and error bars are included. Is why something 1000 years old can be dated plus or minus 50 years, but something 10,000 years old is more like +/- 500 years. One can conjur up reasons to discard carbon dating--fine--up to 4000 years--C-14 has been verified by independant dating. (Tree rings/known date of a historical artifcat). One thing--I can understand doubt--2 seperate methods giving the same date-not bloody likely both are wrong--3 seperate methods all giving the same date or era---only an intellectual lightweight would discard 3 independent confirmations. The odds of those being wrong are less than that for the historical existance of Jesus.
2007-12-12 07:36:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That really depends on the creationist you are talking to. Some say it is inaccurate. Just because God created all things doesn't mean He necessarily created them new. Others say that to God a million years is like a day and vice versa, so several million of years could have passed before the creation of man.
2007-12-12 07:36:39 · answer #3 · answered by Tim A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To even be a young earth creationists means they have an extremely low IQ. So don't try to educate those that are not capable of thinking and learning.
2007-12-12 09:46:36 · answer #4 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm a Christian who examine and that i believe that God created all issues and "interior the start" became tens of millions of years in the past. I belive that God in no way creates or in no way created something void and that there became an age until eventually now this age of flesh guy whilst the dinosaurs walked this earth. many that say they examine their Bible could relatively dig deeper into the which technique of words and pass into the unique Hebrew and Greek and understand the place mistranslations have been made. That one uncomplicated little observe "became"void could have been translated "grew to grow to be"void. in the event that they have any understand-how approximately what lucufer did, then they had understand that each and each physique this and the dinosaurs have been of the 1st age, until eventually now God made guy flesh.
2016-12-10 21:00:32 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it has + or - in its readings, so can be accurate with in a range of dates. That's too much for a fundy to grasp, they can only understand accuracy with a fairy tale attached or it makes no sense to them.
There are other kinds of dating by measuring ubidium/strontium, thorium/lead, potassium/argon, argon/argon, or uranium/lead , all of which have very long half-lives of billions of years. But fundies can only hold one concept in their heads at one time and so ignore these.
2007-12-12 09:59:37 · answer #6 · answered by numbnuts222 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Carbon dating does not work on dinosaur fossils , you are just as ignorant as my grandmother , at least she has an excuse , she is 90 and a Christian .
2007-12-12 08:23:53 · answer #7 · answered by londonpeter2003 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Carbon dating is an inexact science. Oh, except for the intriguing fact that it IS accurate for anything that happened post-Flood. Oh, silly me. I forgot. You don't believe in the Flood as per the Bible book of Genesis. Pity. It accounts for the astonishing point I mentioned above.
2007-12-12 07:36:17 · answer #8 · answered by Annsan_In_Him 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We don't ignore carbon dating, we just don't drink down the koolaid analysis of any scientist. Carbon dating is very subjective.
What date would you like? Well, we'll just keep testing until we get the date we need. Subjective. Do you ignore subjective analysis?
2007-12-12 07:31:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
At the same time, why do evolutionists ignore the unscientific planting of false evidence used to push this theory, such as the "piltdown man", which was supposed to be the "missing link", but was nothing more than some bones, and based on the tooth of a boar? (that's only ONE of several examples of the "scientific method" used by evolutionists.)
Why do evolutionists ignore some of the brightest, smartest minds in the world? For instance, Dr. Flue, who had to renounce his belief in evolution while studying the DNA. Even though he was criticized by his colleagues, he insisted that it would be "intellectual suicide" to continue believing in evolution.
And why isn't a high school student 72 years old?
Oh, maybe I better explain myself on this one.
If you take the average height of a high school student, divided by the average height gain per year over the years in which he or she is in high school, you would calculate a high school student's age at 72 years, on the average.
Likewise, if you take the average weight of a high school student, divide that by the average weight gain per year over the high school years, again, you would calculate that the average high school student is 72 years old.
What are we missing here?
When you discover the problem, apply that same reasoning to the age of the earth.
("What DO they teach these children in school these days?" - the Professor)
These evolutionists "have totally closed, dogmatic minds. They have been brainwashed from birth. Try and argue the point with them and you may as well discuss it with your goldfish. Sad, isn't it?"
2007-12-12 07:32:42 · answer #10 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
thay live in a fairy tale world of the flintstones not the real world thats why thay do not like carbon dating it tells the true thay hate the truth
2007-12-12 11:45:01 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋