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Old Apr 24th, 2003, 02:10 AM        radiometric dating
I'm sorry I haven't taken the time to read the whole thread since it is 5 pages huge and I should be writing a paper. I noticed people debating the innaccuracies of Carbon dating. While its true that Carbon 14 does have such a short half life that it cannot be used to measure the age of the earth, other radioactive isotopes can. Scietists DO NOT use carbon 14 to measure the age of rocks. They use other isotopes that have longer half lives such as Potasium 40 (that may be the wrong number). Radiometric dating has been conisitent in measuring the age of the earth. Of the thousands of samples taken from rocks nearly all indicate that the earth is roughly 4.6 billion years old.

I find many creationist arguments frustratingly uninformed.

If anyone cares I'd describe myself as a non-spiritual agnostic. I'm inclined to think there is no God and I'm absolutley certain that if he exists he has minimal interaction with this world.
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