Posted by Hinge on July 09, 1998 at 18:00:49:
I lost an argument with a TBAM - The 'A' is a profanity.
He claimed that the age of the earth (or books, or skeletons) could not be accurately identified through carbon-14 age dating because of the amount of fossil fuels we have released into the atmosphere.
He also rambled on about how God created the earth out of existing matter which may have been billions of years old.
Since I'm credulous toward science and have taken carbon-14 dating for granted, I was unable to refute him. Furthermore, the articles I have read on the internet agree with the fossil fuel problem.
Anyhow, is Carbon-14 Age Dating flawed? I thought it was substantially proven. Damn, I wish I would have taken that physics class serious when I was in college.