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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/29/2025 4:58 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 8/29/25 11:55 AM, Attila wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:56:32 -0400, JTEM    
   >> in alt.atheism with message-id   
   >> <108oni1$13oqk$2@dont-email.me> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 8/27/25 8:54 PM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:   
   >>>> Well, carbon dating depends on a logarithmic scale, and the farther   
   >>>> back in   
   >>>> time you go, the greater the errors. THere is nothing to compare the   
   >>>> results   
   >>>> to to be sure. Maybe you can carbin date something back a few   
   >>>> thousand years   
   >>>> to be sure, but not further back.   
   >>>   
   >>> If you know about science, if you understand the very basics of   
   >>> science, the scientific method, then the underlying problem I   
   >>> laid out was a bias: A sample/selection/preservation bias! AND   
   >>> THEN there's the circular reasoning where everything is interpreted   
   >>> within the context of their pre existing conclusion.   
   >>>   
   >>> FIRST comes the conclusion AND THEN comes the evidence which   
   >>> miraculously becomes interpreted within the context of the   
   >>> conclusion...   
   >   
   >> That is totally wrong but you will never admit this.   
   >   
   > Admit... what?  That they dig were it's convenient to dig, where they   
   > believe they can find fossils?   
   >   
   > Of course they do.   
   >   
   > All fossil hunters do this. But in the example of dinosaurs it's not   
   > as critical as it is with HUMAN evolution, because the dinosaur hunters   
   > are finding dinosaurs!  The idiots faking it and calling it science   
   > usually have no way what so ever to tell WHAT is a human ancestor and   
   > what isn't, but they pretend that they can and do....   
   >   
   > You can redeem yourself, somewhat, by identifying precisely what you're   
   > pretending is wrong, and explaining WHY.   
   >   
   > I'm asking too much, I know.   
   >   
      
      
   In archeology, there has never been a reversal.  You can look all that   
   you want, you will never find mammalian life in Devonian rock.  If you   
   disagree, you can come by where I live (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), and go just   
   south to the Coralville area.  No mammals are present in the bedrock   
   there, along with the millions of other non-mammalian fossils.   
      
   As for C14 dating, researches can calibrate such with artifacts with   
   known ages from the past, and so, its good to about 50K BP.  Beyond   
   that, other radioactive isotopes are used; the same sample containing   
   different isotopes can be calibrated.  Remember, it's the ratio of   
   parent/daughter elements that gets measured.   
      
   Dawn   
      
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