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1820 From The American Journal of Science and Arts, 1820 comes the account of an ancient tool discovery. At a quarry near Aixen-Provence, France, in 1788, 40 or 50 feet below ground in a layer of limestone were found coins, petrified wooden handles of hammers, pieces of other petrified wooden tools, and a quarrymen's board. The limestone was 300 million years old.
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1826 In a well dug near the Ohio River in north Cincinnati at a level 94 feet down, a buried tree stump was found which showed the marks of an ax. The marks were deep and well cut, indicating the use of a sharp and durable blade. The ax used was confirmed to have been made of metal when, embedded in the top of the stump, an advanced oxidized wedge of iron was found. The layer in which the stump was found was dated to be between 50,000 and 75,000 years old nearly 10 times the accepted age of the supposed first metal usage.
Originally posted by SevenThunders
I have a simple explanation. Current dating methods are woefully inaccurate.
Originally posted by SevenThunders
reply to post by jakyll
I have a simple explanation. Current dating methods are woefully inaccurate. There have been a lot of anomalous findings in supposed ancient strata. Dinosaur bones found side by side with human bones. Pictographs of ancients hunting dinosaurs etc. The fact is the strata were actually generated by a worldwide flood and are not quite as uniform in their fossil content as previously supposed.
Moreover prior to the flood atmospheric conditions were quite a bit different. The rate of carbon 14 production in the upper atmosphere was not the same. This has the tendency to greatly inflate carbon 14 dating prior to about 10K years or so.
It turns out the Bible is not quite the fairy tale government controlled education would have you believe.
It turns out the Bible is not quite the fairy tale government controlled education would have you believe.
The fact is the strata were actually generated by a worldwide flood and are not quite as uniform in their fossil content as previously supposed.
With so many of the old reports they cannot be verified and the material lost. The trail is cold to say the least. His own explorations have shown that most if not all of these reports were either false, hoaxs, mistake or misinterpretation or cannot be verified.
Seventhunders, I think you'll find that creation science won't work in this case. Current dating procedures are accurate, no human and dinosaur bones have been found together, no pictographs, no evidence of a world wide flood, no evidence of a weird atmosphere, and dendrochronology + Paleoclimatology study makes a mockery of your Carbon 14 dating comments.
Originally posted by SevenThunders
[There is a lot of information about dinosaur art.
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Originally posted by SevenThundersAs for carbon dating it requires the assumption that carbon 14 production has been occurring at the same rate for tens of thousands of years. An assertion that can not be verified and is unlikely given how much of the solar system's history is filled with catastrophic events.
Originally posted by SevenThunders Moreover if there were a significantly greater density of water vapor in times past it would disrupt carbon 14 dating. Such an assertion would be consistent with the Biblical account of the great deluge, wherein a certain fraction of the flood waters precipitated out from the water canopy that filled the earth's atmosphere.
Originally posted by SevenThundersThere have been some attempts to calibrate carbon 14 using other dating mechanisms, but there still remain many anomalous results.
Originally posted by Harte
Carbon dating makes no such assertion of constant atmospheric C14 production.
That is an oft-repeated lie that creationists use because they have not a single whit of their own evidence. Their only option is to shoot at the evidence provided by Science.
Water vapor would in no way interfere with the production of atmospheric C14.
The amount of water necessary in this "water canopy" would be so great that air-breathing life could not have even existed on Earth were such a ridiculous notion true.