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Carbon-14: A Scientifically Proven Dating Method?

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08-01-2003 2:48 PM

So then the answer to the question in the topic title would be "yes, it's a scientifically proven dating method."
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08-05-2003 3:00 AM 		Reply to: Message 13 by The General
08-05-2003 2:47 AM

Re: Responding to Critics
Since many believe that the world is billions of years old, they certainly cannot appeal to Carbon dating.
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Well, they usually don't, so that's kind of a straw man argument, isn't it?
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The age of geological formations - such as the planet - is generally established with longer term dating methods like Ar/K dating.
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