I also understand that the man who 'discovered' carbon dating, the crux of evolutionism, stated that the regular decay of the carbon atom was only 'reliable' up to about 10,000 years, and even that was iffy. So where does that put the age of the universe?
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Oy. Three mistakes in one: C-14 dating is NOT the key defense of the known age of the earth (we use isotopes with half-lives in the 10^8-10^10 year range for that), C-14 dating is reliable to within reasonable accuracy out to about 50,000 years (not 10,000), and this problem wouldn't appear at all in a 6,000-year-old universe anyway, even given the poster's mistaken limit on its accuracy!
"So where does that put the age of the universe?"
At least 13.7 billion years, measured by known distances and the known speed of light.
we don't use carbon dating to date the age of the earth and the universe foo!
We use isotopes with half-lives of billions of years to date the earth.
It puts it...nowhere near carbon, which only has to do with working out the age of things that were alive and are now dead.
Also you don't really know what 'crux' means.
Same place as before, older then Fundie claims
Most Christians still don't accept the "6000 year old Earth" dogma as it's crap EVEN IN BIBLICAL TERMS (and there's a lot of crap moderate Christians accept ) That genoligical crapmath is a travesty of history and biology
First off, there are other isotopes which are used to measure the age of the planet. Secondly, C-14 is reliable to about 50,000 years. Third, even if C-14 was only accurate to about 10,000 years, it would still disprove your theory of a six thousand year old earth.
carbon dating is useful to about 35,000 years now , with better equipement and some calibration curves.
There are other redioisotope dating methods that have much larger timespans.
The universe is about 13.5 billion years old.
Good thing we don't fucking carbon date SPACE, because that would be completely moronic.
You don't actually think carbon-dating applies to FUCKING SPACE, do you, Tamararc?
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