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Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed
eldavojohn writes "New research funded by the National Science Foundation at the University of Miami is showing that carbon dating (the 13C/12C ratio used to infer age) in the ocean can only be trusted up to 150 million years ago. From the primary researcher, 'This study is a major step in terms of rethinking how geologists interpret variations in the 13C/12C ratio throughout Earth's history. If the approach does not work over the past 10 million years, then why would it work during older time periods? As a consequence of our findings, changes in 13C/12C records need to be reevaluated, conclusions regarding changes in the reservoirs of carbon will have to be reassessed, and some of the widely-held ideas regarding the elevation of CO2 during specific periods of the Earth's geological history will have to be adjusted.' While this research doesn't necessarily throw carbon dating out the window, it should cause people to rethink so many theories about early life that revolved around ages of sediment in the oceans."
Creationists will be all over this... At least it shows that unlike them, scientists have the capacity to admit it when they're proven wrong.
Are you fucking kidding me? There's been tons of evidence that requires an adjustment of their theory.
Of course, all things that contradict their worldview are the works of satan!
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
Today the evangilists are the people who are athiests. They are just as quick to condemn as the religious people of yore were.
I am still not sure what to think. Personally? I'm inclined to believe that something had to get this started and that something may not have happened by chance. Does that mean I believe in creationism as is Biblical? Nope. What I hope it means is that I'm honest enough to say that I haven't a clue and can only base my opinions on what I know, observe, and feel. S'not scientific but love isn't either and we have probably all experienced that.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
You said:
I assume you include Albert Einstein (who believed in a creator or "God") among the unscrupulous exploiters of people's scientific ignorance.
It's actually the ignorance, propaganda and outright lies amongst the religious that have caused me to loose my faith over the years. What you say is complete nonsense, and has been commented upon by well known scientists (and atheists) such as Richard Dawkins .
Here's a reference (pertaining to Einstein's "Faith") for good measure:
- http://skeptically.org/thinkersonreligion/id8.html
don't be so dogmatic.
you sound as silly as the ID knuckleheads.
Who run Barter Town?
'lulz' doesn't mean what you think it means. Also, your story is pathetiic. You may position yourself as an intellectual, but the intelligent do not take pleasure in humiliating those slightly more ignorant, nor do they reiterate these episodes in some lame attempt at acceptance by a fictional community of "we're right, so we're cool." I'm willing to bet that once you discover sex you will no longer waste our time with bloated self-absorbed posts. Here's a tip: keep your posts under 150 words and you'll be better able to hide your plainly average intelligence (or at the very least, you'll be far less annoying).
Boy, you'll go to any length to try to nitpick your way into being right, won't you?
If you say, "When it comes to global warming, they'll believe anything", then explicitly say "for example", and proceed to give an example of CO2 measured next to volcanoes, the obvious implication is that the CO2 measured next to volcanoes has something to do with global warming. Otherwise you're attempting to claim that the poster gave an example that had nothing to do with what said poster was explicitly giving an example of.
Give up man, it's pathetic. Admit that the AC didn't know what he/she was talking about and move on.
Well there's a devastating scientific rebuttal if I've ever seen one. You should write it up as a comment to Nature Geosciences.