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Originally Posted by Jerrek
The fact that you can get readings from the same rock ranging from 100 years to 1 billion years indicate just how inaccurate it is.
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Carbon dating is not used for dating rocks.
http://www.awitness.org/bible_commen...on_dating.html
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Yes. Note the word theory, meaning, it has never been proven.
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Scientific theories are never *proven*, they are simply the most "refined" version which is currently available with the present state of knowledge and tools that can be used to test them.
Newton came up with a theory of gravity that worked perfectly well until Einstein came along with relativity. This does *not*, however mean that Newton was wrong.
http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics...www/node8.html
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You are entitled to your beliefs of course but to base a rational argument on the book of Genesis is very dangerous territory.
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Why? Does my religion offend you? Do you feel threatened that I base decisions on my religion? Is freedom of religion too much for you?
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Why does this sound like Ali G saying "Is it 'cos I's black"?
Just as he inappropriately "played the race card", so you are inappropriately playing the religion card. What JustAnotherN00b said has *nothing* to do with being "offended" by your religion, nor that he feels "threatened" by it. It most *certainly* doesn't say anything about denying freedom of religion!
What it *does* say is that any rational person will *not* base an argument on a single source of information, but will check and corroborate it with other sources and test it against known or knowable facts to see if it stands up to scrutiny.
This is, in a nutshell, the *scientific* process whereby theories are tested and validated, something which is an *on going* process as new research techniques and ideas are developed.
Anyone who stands up and says "I have discovered the final, absolute and unadulterated truth" is just asking to be laughed at.