What's the creationists thought on this?

They don't use 14C to date dino bones for the same reason that you don't use a yard stick to measure the width of a human hair. Using the smallest increment on a yard stick you will find that every human hair is 1/8th of an inch across.

Why? And what is this account? What methodologies do they use to date fossils? What do they measure in rocks that allows them to attach a date to the rock's formation? From my reading on the subject, scientists date igneous rocks. This can take the form of sedimentary layers, such as tuffs. These are rocks that formed from fallen volcanic ash. These tuffs are used to date the eruption. By finding a tuff below and above a fossil you can give an age range for that fossil (younger than the tuff below it, older than the tuff above it). Obviously, lava flows or intrusions above and below a fossil can also be used.

Indeed. If they start down this path ask them how scientists are able to date asteroids. If you are aiming for a less confrontational response you could state that index fossils are used, but that they are also checked against radiometric methodologies when appropriate. More importantly, the age range for any index fossil was first established by radiometric dating. Prior to radiometric dating the best a geologist could do was a relative age compared to other geologic structures.Edited by Taq, : No reason given.

Arguments from common sense are logical fallacies. Many findings in science have gone against common sense. For example, light can be both a particle and a wave. This goes against common sense, but that doesn't mean it is false.This T. rex was found in a very well documented strata that is one of the most accurately dated strata around. That fossil is as old as they say it is. Whatever material they find in it has survived that long. No amount of incredulity refutes the facts. Never trust secondary sources where science is involved. Secondary sources get a lot of things seriously wrong. Always go to the primary source. In the primary research paper it describes how the fossil was soaked for a long period of time before anything soft was observed.