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Request for Carbon-14 Dating explanation

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05-06-2004 8:31 PM 		Reply to: Message 6 by Coragyps
05-06-2004 8:26 PM

Re: Carbon-14 Dating Explained
The only thing that I would like to add is that Carbon dating is not used alone.
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One of the key features of dating is that several methods are used, carbon dating, positional, relationship and correlation to other similar sites or objects, and all must be in agreement.
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05-07-2004 6:27 PM 		Reply to: Message 10 by Justin Clark
05-07-2004 6:16 PM

Re: More Questions
First, I don't think we or anyone else has a Nitrogen Bomb.
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But what is actually looking at is the radioactive decay, where one isotope changes to another. That decay is very much at a fixed rate. The half life and decay rates are very precisely known.
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05-10-2004 4:44 PM 		Reply to: Message 32 by Justin Clark
05-10-2004 4:38 PM

Re: Courtesy
Actually, if you check you'll find that a great, great number of people supported Columbus, Gallileo, Plato, Socrates.
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