>>>>-SNIP
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>>>>>When I asked him about carbon-14 testing and the like he simply replied that this was God's way to "test" us, to test our faith. hmmm. ok.
>>>>>Yeah - I heard that un before too!
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>>>>Carbon 14 and Potassium-Argon (K-Ar) dating methods have produced contradicting results. Let's see if I'm right, they measure the decay of Uranium and potassium, two of the parent elements of "rock", to produce Argon. They assume that the rate fo decay is constant. Have they been always constant for all these billions of years?
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>>>>A Carbon 14 testing can give you one result and K-Ar test can give you totally different reading, perhaps difference f few millions years.
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>>>>Maybe its the best we have, but it can very will give tainted result.
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>>>Dean, when measuring age in geological time scales, which is what these techniques are used for, a few million years either way is a blink of the eye.
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>>Whatif a few million years difference is from the same object?
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>When you are dating something which is lets say 100 million years old then if one technique says 90 and the other says 110 its irrelevant. The thing is old, about 100 million years old. The margin of difference is not significant on such time scales.


I'm talking about using the same technique on a same object and getting very different reading.

Again what if the few million year difference is from the same object? Lets say you measure the age of an wooly mammoth by taking a sample from it's hair from it's head and it reads 150,000 years. Then you do the same except this time from its tail, and the reading comes back saying it's actually 250,000 year old.