Carbon Dating DOESN'T work beyond 4500 years

The production rate of C14 varies so that there is no definite equilibrium point. And humans have released significant amounts of old carbon into the atmosphere in the last couple of hundred years.

I don't think you understand what I was trying to say. My point is the claim that C14 is not currently in equilibrium means little, because the production rate varies and because human activity is affecting the level.
Perhaps you are unaware that some authors (such as Richard Milton) use this argument to "prove" that the Earth is young ?

I agree that Milton's statement is silly. I was giving reasons WHY it is silly and why the fact that C14 is "not in equilibrium" is irrelevant. We know why, and it isn't for the silly reasons suggested in the post I replied to.

Far enough. Try not to let it happen again :-)

Befoe the admins jump on us for being off topic I'd like to remind the young'uns that he'd have been using punch cards. And very likely he'd have had to rely on operators to actually run the cards through the reader and fetch the print-out. Letting the compiler cope with common spelling errors is a really good idea in that situation.