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Old 03-16-2007, 10:06 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Romestar View Post

Carbon dateing is incredibly inaccurate
a live penguin was dated to be 8,000 years old and the same rock was dated to be between ~100,000 years old and ~2 billon years old by four different carbon dateing techniques believed to be accurate
Other than the misspelling, this is absolutely true. Well, I can't vouch for the examples because it's the first I have heard of them, but there has been numerous times that carbon dating has been proven to be about as accurate as drunkenly throwing a dart at a wall.
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