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Author Topic:   Does radio-carbon dating disprove evolution?
anglagard
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Message 207 of 308 (346894)
09-06-2006 1:39 AM
Reply to: Message 205 by Peleg
09-06-2006 1:17 AM


C14 Dating for Dinosaurs?
Peleg writes:
To me dating dinosaur bones with C14 better fits Occams' Razor than via dating the bones based on rocks that where dated by indexed bones or surrounding rocks that undoubtedly contain percolation from above or even below.
Please consider reviewing the point made in several threads that radiocarbon dating, due to its half-life of some 5,700 years, is not generally considered valid beyond 50,000 years due to the minute amount of C14 available to measure after so much decay of the parent material. According to scientific consensus, non-avian dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.
If you are coming from a different slant and insist that all dinosaurs along with unicorns, fire-breathing dragons, and human giants over 10 feet in height - died in the last 6000 years and should be datable through radiocarbon techniques - please provide supporting evidence in the appropriate venue.
ABE - welcome to EVC. Sorry, didn't see it was your first post.
Edited by anglagard, : A bit more civility
Edited by anglagard, : speling, gramar, and clarety

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anglagard
Member (Idle past 865 days)
Posts: 2339
From: Socorro, New Mexico USA
Joined: 03-18-2006


Message 212 of 308 (346906)
09-06-2006 2:27 AM
Reply to: Message 209 by Peleg
09-06-2006 1:53 AM


Re: C14 Dating for Dinosaurs?
If I continue to address each of these assertions beyond this point, I would be reprimanded by the admins for being off-topic, as it is supposed to be about how radio-carbon dating disproves evolution.
Peleg writes:
Ok but the best scientist don't always go with the general consensus and I would say that there are at least a hundred good examples were the general scientific consensus was dead wrong and often deadly.
Please feel free to start a new thread concering a discussion of this topic. I would like to see a debate about the issues brought up by Thomas Kuhn in his book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I think such a discussion may help reveal how science works and how much strong evidence it takes to the overthrow a prevailing scientific theory as there appears to be some confusion among some posters in how and why this has occurred throughout history.
There are a lot references of dinosaur soft-tissue being found and to me it suggests that the general consensus is once again wrong
Once again, please feel free to propose a new topic on how such so-called soft-tissue overthrows current theories concerning the age and evolution of dinosaurs in the biosciences and geosciences.
I would suggest you pace yourself, however, and not try to propose more than one or two topics before any preexisting ones you have proposed, and have been accepted, max out at the 300 level. You may find it impossible to keep up if you try to support too many threads.
Please do not respond to this message as I would be unable to reply without breaking the rules.
Edited by anglagard, : clarity
Edited by anglagard, : speling as always

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