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theatheistguy said:"Oi! There's no fucking carbon in it!"
Mithcoriel said:Can someone refresh my memory? Why is it fallacious to say you can't date fossils cause they've been replaced with surrounding minerals that are much older?
You can't carbon-date fossils, because there simply isn't any carbon in it. It's all just rock. However, you can date it radioactively, but creationists tend to ignore this and just say that the carbon dating method doesn't work and therefore all dating methods don't.Mithcoriel said:Can someone refresh my memory? Why is it fallacious to say you can't date fossils cause they've been replaced with surrounding minerals that are much older?
nasher168 said:You can't carbon-date fossils, because there simply isn't any carbon in it. It's all just rock. However, you can date it radioactively, but creationists tend to ignore this and just say that the carbon dating method doesn't work and therefore all dating methods don't.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think fossils are dated directly.darthrender2010 said:nasher168 said:You can't carbon-date fossils, because there simply isn't any carbon in it. It's all just rock. However, you can date it radioactively, but creationists tend to ignore this and just say that the carbon dating method doesn't work and therefore all dating methods don't.
that's not what this guy has a problem with, his issue is with radiometric dating. He claims that the bones are buried in material that is much older than they are and when they fossilize it's just the old minerals switching and therefor of course fossils are going to be dated to be incredibly old.
You're probably right. Geology/Palaeontology aren't exactly my strong points.Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think fossils are dated directly
darthrender2010 said:that's not what this guy has a problem with, his issue is with radiometric dating. He claims that the bones are buried in material that is much older than they are and when they fossilize it's just the old minerals switching and therefor of course fossils are going to be dated to be incredibly old.