November's issue of
National Geographic has on its cover the very leading question: "Was Darwin Wrong?"
The answer, of couse, is no. I only had a chance to skim the article, but it covers all the bases that have been hashed and rehashed in this forum. It's an interesting overview.
Also in the Letters section, someone writes that in a previous issue that had an article about the sun, it was mentioned that solar activity results in changes in the C
14 creation rate on the earth. The letter then asks if this would make carbon dating unreliable due to the fluctuations in C
14 levels in the atmosphere. The cynic in me thinks this was the nicest creationist letter they received and they decided to publish.
They answer that while solar activity does change the levels in C
14 in the atmosphere, carbon dating is calibrated to take into account such things as solar activity, industrial pollution, volcanic activity, and all sorts of processes that would change the C
14 through comparing the results returned by carbon dating with other methods of dating that are independent of those processes such as dendochronology, sedimentation rates, etc.
Looks like a good issue.
Edited to remove a horrible grammatical error
This message has been edited by Rrhain, 10-27-2004 03:22 AM
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