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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Carbon dating, when you go back many years, has never been proven.  For lack of a better way to explain it (my grandparents were Harvard/Nasa scientists who explained it to me in layman's terms), there are so few carbons when you go back many many years that the possible margin or error is enormous, i.e., is it 100,000 years old?  1 million years old? 1 billion years old.  Who knows - it's essentially only a theory when you go back that far because it has NEVER been verified.  We have no dated documents or other dated evidence from millions of years ago with which to verify. [/quote]

The age of the earth is not estimated by carbon-14 dating. Radiometric dating is used -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth#Radiometric_dating.

Carbon dating will give good results for objects up to 50,000 years. It is a scientific, proven method that has been calibrated and verified, for example with old tree rings.

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Same difference.  Carbon dating is a form of radiometric dating.  Plus, again, neither has been verified as dating anything hundreds of thousands or millions or billions of years old.[/quote]

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