Carbon-14 Dating Debate Assistance Thread

it looks like i am not alone in my skepticism of C14 dating... my question is why would you proclaim my ignorance when others here express similar sentiments??? Is it more acceptable coming from a fellow evolutionist or something?

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...less prone to contamination/variance issues than C14 dating is

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Edited by Peg, : No reason given.

ok so i've read everyones reply's and i thank you all for attempting to show me the lightI did not attempt to be dishonest and take beaglebob out of context. He wrote that there is a better dating method then C14 because it was not affected by variancesi think you will find one of my previous posts also mentioned the variances as a problem in C14 dating which is why i pointed out that it was not just some crazy idea i got in my head so i could hold onto my precious creationist theories, others also recognise variences as a problem for C14 dating... if thats not what he meant, then perhaps he could elaborate?2ndly I am not a YEC and do not have a problem with the age of old homosapien/erectus etc or even that these exist. I merely doubt that they are human.

thank you coyote for keeping it civilhere a few points of contention for C14 that i have found in print in various placescontamination of the samples tested for instance. Its always possible that a bit of wood, for example, from the heart of an old tree might contain live sap. Or if it was extracted with an organic solvent (often made from petroleum), a trace of the solvent might be left in the portion analyzed. Charcoal could have been penetrated by rootlets from living plants. Any of these senarios could affect the levels of C14Live shellfish have been found with carbonate from minerals long buried or from seawater upwelling from the deep ocean where it had been for thousands of years. Such things can make a specimen appear either older or younger than it really is.there is also the assumption that the level of carbon 14 in the atmosphere has always been the same as it is now. But we know that the carbon level has increased a lot since the explosion of neuclar bombs into the atmosphere and since the use of burning fossil fuels. So how do we really know what the levels were thousands of years ago?volcanic eruptions also add to the stable carbon-dioxide reservoir, thus diluting the radiocarbon....so how do they account for all these possible variences in c14 in the atmosphere??? How can they honestly know how much to make allowance for???