Reading through a page and a half, I feel compelled to point out that although a few here have tried a substantive response, a good portion, such as PaulK's posts, are the usual evo idiocy so typical, attacking the people and not the argument, and the constant trying to take the topic off-topic to address the ToE as a whole, and so I want to make a quick comment there.
First, the hysteria of some of your comments just makes someone that has for over 20 years watched and studied this debate, just suggest to me the creationists are probably right. I remember meeting this same hysteria back in the 80s when I suggested that Haeckel's work was forged and his conclusions phoney. The evos I would meet would react with similar emotionalism, and it wasn't really into after 1997 that we began to see some evos admit to the facts that they were wrong.
Secondly, I said in my opening post that I don't know much about carbon-dating, and those of you that have bothered to read my posts know I have never questioned that the earth was old. I do think there is some evidence of dinosaurs remaining coexisting with humans, but that doesn't really mean I think the earth is young. it's not an issue I have delved into.
Third, the fossil record and living biota are, imo, all the evidence you need to fully discount current, mainstream evolutionist models. Maybe someone's ideas like JAD's prescribed theory have merit as he at least tried to honestly deal with the facts.
With that being said, all I wanted was the stock evo answers. Unfortunately, thus far there is little substantiation for those answers and a great deal of mudslinging and diverting to a side topic within the OP, on cold fusion. I recognize the YECers have a theory on tweaking carbon-dating, and thus far judging by the paltry responses, I tend to think they may be correct, but honestly, whether the dinosaur bones are dated to 35K years or 5K years, either dating is somewhat devastating, if accurate, for evolutionist dating schemes, and so let's try to keep the discussion to that.
Once again, realize dating methods is not an area I have been interested in, nor studied a lot of, but it sure seems to me you guys jump on every dating method that you prefer, and reject dating methods you don't like. My experience with watching how evos handle data suggests this is not an objective process within the evolutionist community, but this sort of selective acceptance of data is par for the course for you guys.
Edited by randman, : No reason given.
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