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How accurate is radiometric dating?

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Some quotes on radiocarbon dating:

"It is self evident that a contaminated sample will give an erroneous date, but it is frequently impossible to ascertain if a sample has indeed been contaminated."
R.S. Bradley, Quaternary Paleoeclimatology, London, Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1985, p. 54

"Relative ages are always subject to interpretation, and radiocarbon dates are often ignored or dismissed as a "bad date" if they do not fit an a priori hypothesis."
T.A. Thompson, G.S.Fraser and G. Olyphant, Establishing the altitude and age of past lake levels in the Great Lakes, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 1988, 20(5) p. 392

"In the light what is known about the radiocarbon method and the way it is used, it is truly astonishing that many authors will cite agreeable determinations as a "proof" for their beliefs. The implications of pervasive contamination and ancient variations in carbon-14 levels are steadfastly ignored by those who based their argument upon the dates. The radiocarbon method is still not capable of yielding accurate and reliable results. There are gross discrepancies, the chronology is uneven and relative, and the accepted dates are actually selected dates. ’This whole blessed thing is nothing but 13th-century alchemy, and it all depends upon which funny paper you read’."
Robert E. Lee, Radiocarbon: Ages in Error, Anthropological Journal of Canada, Vol 19, No 4 (1981) pp. 9-29

"C-14 dating was being discussed at a symposium on the prehistory of the Nile Valley. A famous American colleague,
professor Brew, briefly summarized a common attitude among archaeologists towards it as follows: "If a C 14 date supports our theories, we put it in the main text. If it does not entirely contradict them, we put it in a footnote. And if it is completely out of date, we just drop it. Few archaelogists who have concerned themselves with absolute chronology are innocent of having sometimes applied this method, and many are still hesitant to accept C 14 dates without reservation."
T. Säve-Söderbergh and Ingrid U. Olsson, C14 Dating and Egyptian Chronology, in Ingrid U. Olsson (ed.) Proceedings of the Twelfth Nobel Symposium. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc and Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1970

"The Carbon-14 contents of the shells of the snails of Melanoides tuberculatus living today in artesian springs in
southern Nevada indicate an apparent age of 27,000 years."
Alan C. Riggs, Science, vol 224 (1984) 58-61

http://www.setterfield.org/RadiometricDating.htm



Now here is the big question, if radiometric dating requires so many assumption, why is it taken as fact?
 
Some of the "Age of the Earth stuff" is so unintentionally funny.

According to evolutionists, Stone Age man existed for 100,000 years before beginning to make written records about 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. Prehistoric man built megalithic monuments, made beautiful cave paintings, and kept records of lunar phases.27 Why would he wait a thousand centuries before using the same skins to record history?26 The biblical (Hebrew text) time-scale is more likely.

:lol

I don't know, why don't you ask the Incas, who managed to build a civilization spanning an entire continent roughly 600 years ago without ever inventing writing?
 
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New Evidence Suggests Noah's Sons Rode Flying Dinosaurs

CREATION SCIENCE BREAKING NEWS

For years, Creation Scientists have disputed how Noah was able to quickly collect millions of indigenous animals from remote, inaccessible regions of the world for a 40-day ride in his ark. New evidence from an archeological find in China supports the long held Christian belief that Noah's sons rode giant flying dinosaurs to transport duck billed platypuses from Australia, and penguins and polar bears from the Antarctic, to name a few. "Those must have been some mighty big flying dinosaurs," says Pastor Deacon Fred. "Imagine the look on Noah's face when his sons flew in for a landing with a pair of Hippos strapped to the back of one of them things! Glory to God!"

"The Lord is just amazing," says Creation Scientist, Dr. Jonathan Edwards. "Whenever Atheist scientists make a new find, they think it will hack away at our Christian beliefs. They must get pretty peeved at how sneaky our Lord is, because whenever they unearth something, it only provides more support for the historical accuracy of the Holy Bible And these flying dinosaurs they keep finding are no exception!"

Dr. Edwards explains that it would have been impossible for Noah's sons to travel to the four corners of the earth to areas that were previously inaccessible on foot. "Noah and his sons had to collect two of every single creature on the face of the planet," he says. "We're talking about a big haul here. At first we just attributed it to what Creation Scientists call, the Holy Finger Snapping Theory. That's where God snaps his fingers and just makes it so." Edwards points out that Creation Scientists are still unanimous in attributing the fact that Noah was able to load 100 million plus animals onto a 450 foot ark "in the selfsame day" (Genesis 7:13-14) to the Finger Snapping Theory. In the case of how the animals were collected from remote regions of the world in the first place however, recent archeological finds indicate that Noah's sons were able to tame giant flying dinosaurs and in turn, load them up with food supplies and hitch rides for long trips around the world to China, South America, Australia, Greenland, and the North Pole.

Creation Scientists estimate that since the Earth is only ten-thousand years old, human beings were living among dinosaurs and had plenty of time to tame them. "I would have loved to have been around to see Cain and Abel rolling around in the grass outside the Garden of Eden playing with the pet raptors their father, Adam, gave them for their birthdays," says Pastor Deacon Fred. "What a glorious time that must have been!"

Through tithing donations from Landover Baptist Church members, the Center for Creation Research was able to secure several fossilized remains of flying dinosaurs valued at over $14 million. The remains will be studied exhaustively for evidence of the leather harnessing used to secure Noah's sons for their long transcontinental journeys.


http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0605/flyingdinos.html

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What is this, some young earth theory crap?!

Bah, I do believe there is a missing period in our history, but young earth is complete bullshit. Radiometric dating may not be "accurate to the year" but its approximations are generally reliable.
 
Belfast said:
What is this, some young earth theory crap?!

Bah, I do believe there is a missing period in our history, but young earth is complete bullshit. Radiometric dating may not be "accurate to the year" but its approximations are generally reliable.

There's been some debate, to give one example, in Egyptology about the ages of certain dynasties and the age of the Sphinx. However, I've never heard of archeologists getting caught fudging data to prove or cover up Young Earth theories, (although a few scientists here and there rarely is nothing new, of course).
 
I think all the scientific journals in the world should add the word "Christian" into their titles so that these people will believe them.
 
LakeEarth said:
I think all the scientific journals in the world should add the word "Christian" into their titles so that these people will believe them.

Unfortunately that doesn't work. :(
 
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