Reply #58: The ages and calculations

[billh58]

presented in my original post are accurate, and I was not "off" by a factor of any amount. I misstated the term "radiocarbon dating," which should have read "radioactive dating," and I acknowledged that. Mea-big fucking deal-culpa, bubba.

Radiocarbon dating is one method in an entire field of radiometric isotope dating technologies. Where is the "ridiculous lie?" Stating the facts is not arrogance, and I am not embarrassed by a simple typographical error which did not alter the veracity of my statement one iota.

The figures presented have been verified and accepted by the scientific community the world over -- except for a few backward and absurd religious fundamentalists. The earth IS 4.54 billion years old, the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, and the first hominids appeared 2 million years ago. No human (or our ape ancestors for that matter) ever saw a dinosaur, and vice versa. These are not "my claims," but the facts as presented by intelligent, educated, and dedicated men and women of science from universities and labs around the world. Most of these measurements and facts were determined, and verified, by radiometric dating.

If you believe that the earth is only 5,000 years old, please continue in your willful ignorance, but please explain to me the 50,000 year-old age of those archaeological artifacts that CAN be accurately measured by radiocarbon dating. Your childish response says a lot more about you, than it does about me. And before you blow another educationally-challenged gasket, the terms "radioactive dating," and "radiometric dating," are interchangeable, and refer to the same process.