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Coragyps Member (Idle past 734 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
This almost could go in Bible Inerrancy, but I thought I'd stick it here instead: the first-ever radiometric date for a Biblical structure has been published, and is consistent with the Biblical text. King Hezekiah's aqueduct (II Kings 20:20) has been determined to be about 2500 years old:
A. Frumkin, et al., Nature, vol 425, pp 169-171, (11 Sept 2003). The abstract: The historical credibility of texts from the Bible is often debated when compared with Iron Age archaeological finds (refs . 1, 2 and references therein). Modern scientific methods may, in principle, be used to independently date structures that seem to be mentioned in the biblical text, to evaluate its historical authenticity. In reality, however, this approach is extremely difficult because of poor archaeological preservation, uncertainty in identification, scarcity of datable materials, and restricted scientific access into well-identified worship sites. Because of these problems, no well-identified Biblical structure has been radiometrically dated until now. Here we report radiocarbon and U—Th dating of the Siloam Tunnel, proving its Iron Age II date; we conclude that the Biblical text presents an accurate historic record of the Siloam Tunnel's construction. Being one of the longest ancient water tunnels lacking intermediate shafts, dating the Siloam Tunnel is a key to determining where and when this technological breakthrough took place. Siloam Tunnel dating also refutes a claim that the tunnel was constructed in the second century BC.
If any of you are interested enough, and can't find this at your library, email me and I'll send a copy.
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Trump won  Suspended Member (Idle past 1239 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
quote: Thats off netscape.com Discuss ------------------"I AM THE MESSENJAH" contact me for any reason at: messenjahjr@yahoo.com
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Brian Member (Idle past 4959 days) Posts: 4659 From: Scotland Joined: |
Hi coragyps,
Hezekiah’s tunnel is a little bit too late for my period of research, but I was drawn to the radiocarbon reference in the abstract. Frumkin must have made a distinction between ‘biblical structures’ and ‘biblical events,’ because radiocarbon dating has been used before to try and determine the accuracy of the biblical text. The fundamentalist ‘scholar’ Bryant Wood used radiocarbon dating to try and undermine Kathleen Kenyon’s dating of the destruction of Jericho ( Bryant Wood Did the Israelites Conquer Jericho: A New Look at the Archaeological Evidence , Biblical Archaeology Review, 16.2 1990, 44-58). Wood had confidently declared that he had blown away Kenyon’s dating of Jericho’ destruction by using evidence that included pottery association, a single radiocarbon date from the destruction, a cartouche plaque of Thutmosis III and a scarab of Hateshput in tomb 5 of Garstang’s pre-Kenyon excavation. Big problem for Wood was that this particular radiocarbon assay was part of a series of systematically defective dates. (M.S. Tire et al, Preliminary Statement on an error in British Museum radiocarbon dates BM-1700 to BM-2315), Antiquity 61 1987 page 168) Woods’ sample came from this batch that should have been dated 220 years earlier plus or minus 40 years of course, when calibrated again the dating fits Kenyon’s original assessment and negated Woods’ claims. Woods was slated by professional archaeologists for his sloppy scholarship, for example James Weinstien was shocked that Woods had only used one sample, Weinstein said ‘it is unacceptable to employ a single radiocarbon assay without even taking into account the date’s standard deviation, for the precise dating of an archaeological event.’ (Weinstein, Archaeological Reality in Exodus : The Egyptian Evidence Eisenbrauns, Indiana 1997, page 101.) The inscription where the tunnel workers met has been used to ‘prove’ that Hezekiah ordered the construction of the tunnel, which is surprising, as it never mentions his name! I wonder if radiocarbon dating will now be accepted as a reliable dating method in certain quarters, or will it just be dismissed as a coincidence? Brian.
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Minnemooseus Member Posts: 3941 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: Member Rating: 10.0 |
quote: As I understand the C14 dating of carbonate (CaCO3) materials, I would expect dates from stalactites to reflect the older rock material that was the source of the carbonate. This would seem to be a simular situation to why you can get too old dates from the shells of living clams etc. Moose
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JonF Member (Idle past 167 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
As I understand the C14 dating of carbonate (CaCO3) materials, I would expect dates from stalactites to reflect the older rock material that was the source of the carbonate. This would seem to be a simular situation to why you can get too old dates from the shells of living clams etc. The material you qoted was a little wrong. They used C-14 dating to date a leaf trapped in the plaster lining of the tunnel; obviously this leaf is older than the tunnel and establishes an uper bound for the age. They then used U-Th dating to date stalactites, which obviously are younger than the tunnel.
Radio-dating backs up biblical text
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awinkisas Inactive Member |
Does this mean that young earth Creationists now accept radio dating to be accurate? After all those years of trying to show how vastly inaccurate it is I don't think that they can now use it to support biblical accuracy. From a YEC point of view this finding is worthless.
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Brian Member (Idle past 4959 days) Posts: 4659 From: Scotland Joined: |
Hi,
I thought of this earlier and you know what, YEC could accept carbon dating without any problems. They would just claim that God created the Universe with age and this would bypass any difficulty. I think the only technique acceptable to YEC are the genealogies of the Bible, even though they are nearly all artificial. Brian.
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Trump won  Suspended Member (Idle past 1239 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
quote: Dating methods of these types are admittedly accurate up to some 6-10,000 years according to the guy who created the dating method.
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Percy Member Posts: 22389 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
messenjaH writes: Dating methods of these types are admittedly accurate up to some 6-10,000 years according to the guy who created the dating method. It's hard to tell what you mean by "accurate". Do you mean the method is useless beyond 6-10,000 years, or merely that the accuracy declines with increasing age? --Percy
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Trump won  Suspended Member (Idle past 1239 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
From what the nobel prize winning scientist said, yes.
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1466 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
Hee-hee!
Percy asks "is it this, or that?" And Messenjah replies "yes." Funny!
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NosyNed Member Posts: 8996 From: Canada Joined: |
That was an "or" question, messenger. Yes, doesn't cut it.
Could you please supply a reference as well? Thanks
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Trump won  Suspended Member (Idle past 1239 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
h/o....
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Trump won  Suspended Member (Idle past 1239 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
Willard Frank Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, on December 17, 1908 to Ora Edward Libby and his wife Eva May. He attended grammar and high schools near Sebastopol, California, between 1913 and 1926, moving to the University of California at Berkeley in 1927, where he studied till 1933, taking his B. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in 1931 and 1933 respectively.
Libby has performed a wide range of scientific advisory and technical consultant work with industrial firms associated with the Institute for Nuclear Studies, as well as with defense departments, scientific organizations and universities. Libby is a physical chemist and a specialist in radiochemistry particularly hot atom chemistry, tracer techniques, and isotope tracer work. He became well-known at Chicago University for his work on natural carbon-14 and its use in dating archaeological artifacts, and natural tritium, and its use in hydrology and geophysics.He was awarded the Nobel Prize In chemistry 1960 "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology and geophysics, and other branches of science. He is married to former Leonor Hickey of King City, California. They have twin daughters Janet and Susan (b. 1945). Willard Frank Libby died in 1980. sanbenito.com
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 734 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
Dating methods of these types are admittedly accurate up to some 6-10,000 years according to the guy who created the dating method.
Dr Libby developed carbon-14 dating over fifty years ago, using a Geiger counter to count C-14 decay events in multi-gram samples. Science and technology have progressed since then, messenjaH. Geiger counters have been obsolete for forty years or so now. Accelerator mass spectrometry hadn't been invented thirty years ago. Carbon-14 dating uses AMS now - it's been calibrated quite accurately back to 38,000 years ago by counting lake varves and dating leaves and insect parts in those varves.Please don't believe all you read on sites like Kent Hovind's. They aim to deceive, like they deceived you with that statement.
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