Siloam Tunnel dates

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Part of the Old Testament Proven True

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Read 2 Kings 20:20 and 2 Chronicles 32:30 in the Old Testament and you'll find a reference to a tunnel that was built in 700 B.C. by order of King Hezekiah to protect Jerusalem's water supply against an Assyrian siege. Long considered an engineering feat for that day and age, the serpentine tunnel ran 1,750 feet long and moved water from the Gihon spring across the entire city of ancient Jerusalem to the pool of Siloam.

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Fast forward to modern-day Jerusalem. The Siloam Tunnel in that city matches the biblical description of King Hezekiah's tunnel. But is it really the same one? That question has stumped scholars for years, many of whom insisted the Siloam Tunnel was built centuries later than the Bible suggested in Kings and Chronicles. The only clue that survived for more than 2,700 years is an inscription discovered in 1880 on a tunnel wall that supported the link to King Hezekiah, although it did not name him specifically, reports The Associated Press.

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Now geologists from the Cave Research Center at Hebrew University in Jerusalem think they have solved the mystery. By using radiocarbon testing to analyze the age of stalactite samples from the ceiling of the Siloam Tunnel and plant material recovered from its plaster floor, the biblical record and the tunnel's age have been confirmed, the researchers wrote in the journal Nature. The Siloam Tunnel is the one built by King Hezekiah.

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This is also significant because it is the first time that a well-identified biblical structure has been subjected to extensive radiocarbon dating.

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Even with all our modern-day technology and scientific knowledge, very little testing of biblical structures has been done to prove or disprove their age or authenticity. Why? The experts told AP such testing is difficult because it's often hard to identify such structures, they may be poorly preserved, or they may be restricted for various political or religious reasons.

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The Siloam Tunnel is different. It's long been a tourist attraction. Anyone can wander in it and see the pick marks the original builders made in the walls to adjust their course so the tunnel would meet with a second team of workers who were heading toward them from the opposite end of the city. AP notes that those pick marks tell us how difficult it was to connect the two ends of the tunnel. "The tunnel is extraordinary, but these guys didn't know where they were going a lot of the time," Hershel Shanks, an expert on the history of Jerusalem who writes for the Biblical Archaeology Review, told AP. Still, he added, "It's nice to have scientific confirmation for what the vast majority of biblical scholars and archaeologists believe."

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Jerusalem, Sept. 11--(RNS) Using Carbon-14 dating techniques, Israeli and British scientists have determined that Siloam's Tunnel, a long, circuitous underground passage constructed below Jerusalem's ancient City of David was probably built about 700 B.C., when King Hezekiah ruled the land of Judea.

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Dating methods of these types are admittedly accurate up to some 6-10,000 years according to the guy who created the dating method.

From what the nobel prize winning scientist said, yes.

h/o....

Willard Frank Libby was born in Grand Valley, Colorado, on December 17, 1908 to Ora Edward Libby and his wife Eva May. He attended grammar and high schools near Sebastopol, California, between 1913 and 1926, moving to the University of California at Berkeley in 1927, where he studied till 1933, taking his B. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in 1931 and 1933 respectively.
Libby has performed a wide range of scientific advisory and technical consultant work with industrial firms associated with the Institute for Nuclear Studies, as well as with defense departments, scientific organizations and universities.Libby is a physical chemist and a specialist in radiochemistry particularly hot atom chemistry, tracer techniques, and isotope tracer work. He became well-known at Chicago University for his work on natural carbon-14 and its use in dating archaeological artifacts, and natural tritium, and its use in hydrology and geophysics.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize In chemistry 1960 "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology and geophysics, and other branches of science.He is married to former Leonor Hickey of King City, California. They have twin daughters Janet and Susan (b. 1945).Willard Frank Libby died in 1980.sanbenito.com

Doesn’t Carbon-14 Dating Disprove the Bible? | Answers in Genesis Hey this article also mentions that guy Woodmorappe.http://www.kc-cofc.org/...pts/EugeneJenkinsDatingMethods.PDFThis article shows some of its flawsexcerpt:
"After about 50,000 years, the amount of carbon 14 will be so small that the fossil can't be dated reliably"

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Please don't believe all you read on sites like Kent Hovind's. They aim to deceive, like they deceived you with that statement.

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I don't read Kent Hovind anymore actually and didn't look at his site for my replies.[This message has been edited by messenjaH, 09-22-2003]