Creation of the Earth v.s. creation of man

As simple as your argument is conveyed, we cannot do that because some people do not accept the idea of carbon dating as being accurate. Which is why when we start checking out the oldest writing is how some of us date humans.Though to be truthful we could probably date humans by other things as well like pottery and stuff instead of writing because pottery has been around longer then writing.

Basically i think what Arachophilia is point out is that you can date Genesis to aproximately 900 B.C. due to place errors mentioned in the text.An example of this would be any history textbook that labeled San Jose as the current capital of the state of California. Since San Jose was the capital 1850-1854 the history book would then have to be written at latest in 1854.Similiarly i think genesis would be dated to 900 B.C. because of the name of cities that were present at that time frame.