How reliable is science? new carbon dating problems (The limitations of science)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Sunday, July 26, 2015, 00:04 (3191 days ago) @ David Turell


> > Tony: Gee... I seem to recall that I've been bagging on carbon dating for years now because the results are inconsistent and questionable.
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> But there are at least five other methods and carbon is only for recent events.-But the same underlying problem exists for all of them. They all labor under the major assumption that we KNOW what the starting ratio of parent:daughter elements were, and we don't.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.

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