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Yeah, true, but I still predict the creationists will be all over it. But you could add much wider error bars to carbon dating and it still wouldn't support cr
by api 16y ago
Yeah, true, but I still predict the creationists will be all over it.
But you could add much wider error bars to carbon dating and it still wouldn't support creationism.
Maybe something 20 million years old is just 7 million. Fine. It's not six thousand.
- KingOfB 16y agoI completely agree. I just find it funny that new science appears and everyone's moaning about the impact of the creationists argument!
- Confusion 16y agoIt's more like: maybe something estimated to be 20.0 million years old (with an error bar of 0.5 million years) should have been estimated to be 19.99 million years old, with the same error bar and hence the same precision, which is still 20.0 million years. And that only makes sense if we weren't talking about carbon dating, which isn't used for those timescales.