The structure of carbon back in the days of dinosaurs was different so Carbon dating cant actually be accurate.
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Hmm, considering that there isn't much more to carbon and it's isotopes than a certain number of protons, neutrons and electrons, I am going to go out on a limb and say you have no clue what you are talking about. Sound about right?
science fail #1 radiocarbon dating isn't used on dinosaurs because there isn't much C14 left in such ancient stuff
science fail #2 carbon is carbon is carbon, no matter how old. if it had a different structure, it wouldn't be carbon.
Um...I had three years of chemistry back in high school, including an advanced placement chemistry class. Now, it's been ten years, but...I don't think carbon works that way.
Seriously, I hated chemistry in the 4 years I had to do Science class in High School (dropped chemistry in senior years) and even I know that elements as a collective can't change structure, because that makes them a DIFFERENT ELEMENT RETARD!
The "structure" of carbon? Are you fucking serious? Do you even remotely know what you're talking about? are you trying to say that "carbon" which is an element and thus an atom, not a molecule, has a structure? carbon is BY DEFINITION an atom with a fixed number of protons and electrons, if it hasn't that particular atomic number it ISN'T CARBON.
Go sit in the corner, dumbass.
Carbon dating > 100,000 years ago = Fail.
Criticizing carbon dating without knowing the above = Epic Fail.
$ echo "The structure of carbon back in the days of dinosaurs was different so Carbon dating cant actually be accurate." | wc
1 19 112
1 sentence of fail, 19 words of gibberish, 112 abused letters
You do know that carbon dating can't be used for anything past 50,000 years ago, right? For that, they use one of the other methods. You might want to at least know what the hell you're arguing against before you make a total fool of yourself.
Carbon, the element, is always carbon. That's why its place is always the same on the peri...oh, fuck it. Talk to your chemistry teacher, boy.
Fundy Science.
Like Biblical Truth.
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repeat after me "science is not calvinball. i am not allowed to make up new rules." there, was that hard?"
Calvin+Hobbes reference FTW!
We can see billion-year-old carbon monoxide in space. It looks exactly the same as modern carbon monoxide.
Your Argument Is Invalid.
(just noting another Epic Fail).
“The structure of carbon back in the days of dinosaurs was different”
Then it literally wasn’t carbon.
Feel free to show how C14 (or whatever) is a daughter product of whatever the hell was being used back then.
“so Carbon dating cant actually be accurate.”
And this has what to do with dating the dinosaurs’ fossils?
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